O'Brien v Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J.
2012 NY Slip Op 07898 [100 AD3d 546]
November 20, 2012
Appellate Division, First Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
As corrected through Wednesday, December 26, 2012
As corrected through Wednesday, December 26, 2012


Thomas J. O'Brien, Jr., Respondent,
v
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey et al., Appellants, et al., Defendants.

[*1] Fabiani Cohen & Hall, LLP, New York (Kevin B. Pollak of counsel), for appellants.

The Perecman Firm, PLLC, New York (Peter D. Rigelhaupt of counsel), for respondent.

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Louis B. York, J.), entered June 11, 2012, which, to the extent appealed from, upon defendant-appellants' (defendants) motion to compel plaintiff to provide authorizations for the release of all medical records preceding the accident in which he was allegedly injured, ordered plaintiff to provide authorizations for the five years preceding the accident, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Defendants failed to demonstrate that all plaintiff's pre-accident medical records were material and necessary in the defense of this action (see CPLR 3101). Plaintiff does not allege that the accident aggravated or exacerbated a preexisting injury or condition (see McGlone v Port Auth. of N.Y. & N.J., 90 AD3d 479 [1st Dept 2011]). Concur—Mazzarelli, J.P., Sweeny, Moskowitz, Renwick and Freedman, JJ.