| Guerrero v Sadiq |
| 2008 NY Slip Op 10127 [57 AD3d 845] |
| December 23, 2008 |
| Appellate Division, Second Department |
| Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. |
| Annaliesse Guerrero, Respondent, v Ilyas Sadiq et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants. |
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Michelstein & Associates, PLLC, New York, N.Y. (Richard A. Ashman of counsel), for
respondent.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants Ilyas Sadiq and Nouras M. Deen appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), dated January 16, 2008, as denied that branch of their motion which was for summary judgment dismissing the claim to recover damages for injury to the plaintiff's right wrist on the ground that she did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d).
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
Although the defendants made a prima facie showing that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury to her right wrist within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) as a result of the subject accident (see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345 [2002]; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955 [1992]), the affirmations of the plaintiff's treating orthopedist and the orthopedic surgeon who performed surgery on her right wrist were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether she had sustained a serious injury to her right wrist that was causally related to the subject accident (see e.g. Qurashi v Hittin, 51 AD3d 652 [2008]; also Kuznetzov v Cuccia, 8 AD3d 244 [2004]; Rahman v Brown, 6 AD3d 518 [2004]). Spolzino, J.P., Santucci, Miller, Dickerson and Eng, JJ., concur.