Opinion
2005-853 K C.
Decided June 4, 2007.
Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Eileen Nadelson, J.), entered April 5, 2005. The order denied plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment.
Order affirmed without costs.
PRESENT: PESCE, P.J., WESTON PATTERSON and RIOS, JJ.
In this action by providers to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment was supported by an affirmation of plaintiffs' counsel, an affidavit of plaintiffs' billing manager, and various documents
annexed thereto. In opposition to the motion, defendant asserted plaintiffs' assignors' failure to cooperate with defendant's investigation and plaintiffs' failure to comply with its requests for verification. The court below denied plaintiffs' motion and the instant appeal ensued.
On appeal, defendant asserts that the affidavit by plaintiffs' billing manager submitted in support of their motion, failed to lay a proper foundation for the documents annexed to plaintiffs' moving papers and that, as a result, plaintiffs failed to establish a prima facie case. We agree. The affidavit submitted by plaintiffs' billing manager was insufficient to establish that he possessed personal knowledge of plaintiffs' practices and procedures so as to lay a foundation for the admission, as business records, of the documents annexed to plaintiffs' moving papers. Accordingly, plaintiffs failed to make a prima facie showing of their entitlement to summary judgment ( see Bath Med. Supply, Inc. v Deerbrook Ins. Co., 14 Misc 3d 135 [A], 2007 NY Slip Op 50179[U] [App Term, 2d 11th Jud Dists]; Dan Med., P.C. v New York Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 14 Misc 3d 44 [App Term, 2d 11th Jud Dists 2006]). Consequently, plaintiffs' motion for partial summary judgment was properly denied.
In view of the foregoing, we reach no other issue.
Pesce, P.J., Weston Patterson and Rios, JJ., concur.