| Fitzpatrick v Elrac Inc. |
| 2010 NY Slip Op 51981(U) [29 Misc 3d 135(A)] |
| Decided on November 18, 2010 |
| 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| This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. |
Plaintiff, as limited by her brief, appeals from that portion of an order of the Civil Court of
the City of New York, Bronx County (Lizbeth Gonz�lez, J.), entered March 1, 2010, which
granted the motion of defendants Easy Way Corp. and Serigne Diaw seeking summary judgment
dismissing the complaint as against them, and the cross motion of defendant Raheim Ortiz
seeking similar relief.
Per Curiam.
Order (Lizbeth Gonz�lez, J.), entered March 1, 2010, affirmed, with $10 costs.
Defendants met their initial burden of establishing that plaintiff did not sustain a serious
injury (Insurance Law § 5102[d]) by submitting the affirmed reports of physicians who
examined plaintiff, quantified normal ranges of motion in plaintiff's lumbar spine, cervical spine
and shoulder, and concluded, based upon objective testing, that plaintiff, who suffered sprains
and contusions that had resolved without permanent disability, had no objective abnormalities
(see Mendez v Mendez, 72 AD3d
402 [2010]; Cekic v Zapata, 69
AD3d 464 [2010]). In opposition, plaintiff failed to submit admissible objective medical
evidence of a serious injury contemporaneous with the accident (see Cabrera v Gilpin, 72 AD3d
552 [2010]; Toulson v Young Han
Pae, 13 AD3d 317 [2004]). Moreover, neither plaintiff nor her doctor offered any
explanation for the six- and eight-month gaps in her treatment (see generally Pommells v
Perez, 4 NY3d 566 [2005]). Plaintiff's serious injury claim predicated on the 90/180-day
category was refuted by the admission in her verified bill of particulars of a relatively brief
convalescence, and plaintiff offered no competent medical proof substantiating her claim under
that category (see Weinberg v Okapi
Taxi, Inc., 73 AD3d 439 [2010]; Zhijian Yang v Alston,73 AD3d 562 [2010]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.
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Decision Date: November 18, 2010