| Galindo v Hodminson |
| 2021 NY Slip Op 00115 [190 AD3d 483] |
| January 12, 2021 |
| Appellate Division, First Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Jovito Galindo, Plaintiff, and Clementina Rodriguez Apolonio,
Appellant, v Christian J. Hodminson, Defendant, and Nector J. Rodriguez, Respondent. |
Salerno & Goldberg, P.C., Deer Park (Stephen Donnelly of counsel), for appellant.
The Zweig Law Firm, P.C., Brooklyn (Jonah S. Zweig of counsel), for respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (John R. Higgitt, J.), entered on or about July 1, 2020, which, to the extent appealed from, denied plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on their claim that plaintiff Clementina Rodriguez Apolonio (Apolonio) sustained a serious injury resulting in significant disfigurement under Insurance Law § 5102 (d), unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiffs failed to establish prima facie that Apolonio's scar constitutes a significant
disfigurement under Insurance Law § 5102 (d) (see Petty v Dumont, 77 AD3d 466, 470 [1st Dept 2010]). Although
the scar is in a prominent location on her forehead and is a little more than 2