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Great Health Care Chiropractic, P.C. v Esurance
2015 NY Slip Op 50787(U) [47 Misc 3d 151(A)]
Decided on May 18, 2015
Appellate Term, Second 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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 May 18, 2015
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ.
2013-164 Q C

Great Health Care Chiropractic, P.C. as Assignee of SADE BLACKWELL, Appellant,

against

Esurance, Respondent.


Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Carmen R. Velasquez, J.), entered December 13, 2012. The order denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granted defendant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with $25 costs.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court which denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granted defendant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Contrary to plaintiff's sole contention with respect to defendant's cross motion, defendant's supporting papers established that plaintiff's assignor had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath (EUOs) (see Stephen Fogel Psychological, P.C. v Progressive Cas. Ins. Co., 35 AD3d 720 [2006]). Since an assignor's appearance at an EUO "is a condition precedent to the insurer's liability on the policy" (id. at 722), we need not reach plaintiff's contention that it was entitled to summary judgment.

Accordingly, the order is affirmed.

Pesce, P.J., Aliotta and Solomon, JJ., concur.


Decision Date: May 18, 2015