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Avicenna Med. Arts, P.L.L.C. v MVAIC
2016 NY Slip Op 51514(U) [53 Misc 3d 140(A)]
Decided on October 11, 2016
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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 October 11, 2016
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ.
2014-414 K C

Avicenna Medical Arts, P.L.L.C., as Assignee of Tiffanie R. Nieves, Respondent,

against

MVAIC, Appellant.


Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Ingrid Joseph, J.), entered July 3, 2013. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $2,142.04.

ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, with $30 costs, and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for the entry of a judgment in favor of defendant dismissing the complaint.

At a nonjury trial in this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff's billing manager testified that the claims had been mailed to defendant Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation (sued herein as MVAIC). Following the trial, the Civil Court awarded judgment to plaintiff in the principal sum of $2,142.04.

For the reasons stated in Avicenna Med. Arts, P.L.L.C., as Assignee of Domingo Francisco Santana v MVAIC (___ Misc 3d ___, 2016 NY Slip Op ___ [appeal No. 2014-415 K C], decided herewith), the judgment is reversed and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for the entry of a judgment dismissing the complaint.

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


Decision Date: October 11, 2016