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Sheehan v Grinshteyn
2006 NY Slip Op 50033(U) [10 Misc 3d 140(A)]
Decided on January 10, 2006
Appellate Term, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on January 10, 2006
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT

PRESENT: SUAREZ, P.J., DAVIS, SCHOENFELD, JJ
.

Francis Sheehan and Millie Sheehan,No. 570443/05 Plaintiffs-Appellants,

against

Vladimir Grinshteyn, Yelizaveta Kulakova, Lawrence A. Fleming and Ruth A. Fleming, Defendants-Respondents.


Plaintiffs, as limited by their brief, appeal from that portion of an order of the Civil Court, Bronx County (Julia I. Rodriguez, J.), entered February 17, 2005, which granted defendants' motion and cross-motion for summary judgment dismissing their claim under the 90/180 day category of Insurance Law §5102(d).


PER CURIAM:

Order (Julia I. Rodriguez, J.), entered February 17, 2005, reversed, with $10 costs, defendants' motion and cross-motion for summary judgment denied, and the complaint reinstated.

Defendants failed to make a prima facie case showing that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law §5102[d]. The medical affirmations submitted by defendants cannot be considered as probative on the issue of whether plaintiff suffered a medically determined injury that prevented him from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted his usual and customary daily activities for a period of not less than 90 days during the 180-day period immediately following the accident because the doctors' examinations were conducted more than one year after the accident (see Webb v Johnson, 13 AD3d 54 [2004]).

Even assuming defendants did meet their initial burden, the affirmation of plaintiff's treating doctor, opining that the trauma from the vehicular accident exacerbated a previous minor condition of plaintiff's spine and that plaintiff was "totally disabled" from working for nearly one year and confined to "complete rest at home," together with other medical [*2]evidence and plaintiff's own affidavit, raised an issue of fact as to whether he sustained a serious injury under the 90/180 day category (see Woods v Tomayo, 5 AD3d 309 [2004]; Manrique v Warshaw Woolen Assocs., 297 AD2d 519 [2002]).

This constitutes the decision and order of the court.
Decision Date: January 10, 2006