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Pugsley Chiropractic, PLLC v Citiwide Auto Leasing, Inc.
2017 NY Slip Op 51878(U) [58 Misc 3d 142(A)]
Decided on December 22, 2017
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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 December 22, 2017
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, MARTIN M. SOLOMON, JJ
2015-1085 K C

Pugsley Chiropractic, PLLC, as Assignee of Marva Lewis, Appellant,

against

Citiwide Auto Leasing, Inc., Respondent.


Gary Tsirelman, P.C. (Darya Klein, Esq.), for appellant. Jeffery Miller & Associates (Stacia Ury, Esq.), for respondent (no brief filed).

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Katherine A. Levine, J.), entered January 30, 2015. The order granted defendant's 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 granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff's assignor had failed to appear for duly scheduled independent medical examinations.

For the reasons stated in Village Med. Supply, Inc., as Assignee of Stephane Philogene v Citiwide Auto Leasing Ins. Co. (__ Misc 3d ___, 2017 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2015-962 K C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ., concur.


ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: December 22, 2017