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Lichtman-Williams v. Desmond

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 28, 1994
202 A.D.2d 646 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

March 28, 1994

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Gowan, J.).


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion for renewal is denied, and so much of the order entered March 27, 1992, as dismissed the respondents' complaint, is reinstated.

The plaintiff Marsha Lichtman-Williams has failed to establish a prima facie case that she sustained "serious injury" within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d). The report of the plaintiffs' physician, Dr. Ralph Parisi, failed to indicate with specificity any limitation in Lichtman-Williams' range of movement (see, Licari v. Elliott, 57 N.Y.2d 230; O'Neill v Rogers, 163 A.D.2d 466). Moreover, Lichtman-Williams returned to work four days after the accident, and so was not prevented from performing substantially all of the material acts that constituted her customary daily activities for 90 out of the 180 days following the accident (see, Insurance Law § 5102 [d]; Licari v. Elliott, supra; Grotzer v. Levy, 133 A.D.2d 67). Nor is there any evidence in the record of any causal relationship between the accident and a herniated disc revealed by a magnetic resonance imaging taken four years after the accident (see, Wierzbicki v. Kristel, 192 A.D.2d 906). Sullivan, J.P., Lawrence, Pizzuto, Joy and Goldstein, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Lichtman-Williams v. Desmond

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 28, 1994
202 A.D.2d 646 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

Lichtman-Williams v. Desmond

Case Details

Full title:MARSHA LICHTMAN-WILLIAMS et al., Respondents, v. ELAINE DESMOND…

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 28, 1994

Citations

202 A.D.2d 646 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
609 N.Y.S.2d 296

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