Opinion
No. 2013–2101 K C.
06-06-2016
RELIABLE PHYSICAL THERAPY, P.C., as Assignee of Yedida Holman, Respondent, v. MVAIC, Appellant.
Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Harriet L. Thompson, J.), entered June 20, 2013. The order denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, with $30 costs, and defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is granted.
In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no fault benefits, defendant Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation (sued herein as MVAIC) appeals from an order of the Civil Court which denied MVAIC's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the action had been commenced after the statute of limitations had expired.
As MVAIC moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the action was barred by the statute of limitations, it bore the initial burden of establishing, prima facie, that the time in which to commence the action had expired (see 6D Farm Corp. v. Carr, 63 AD3d 903 [2009] ; Island ADC, Inc. v. Baldassano Architectural Group, P.C., 49 AD3d 815 [2008] ). MVAIC's moving papers established that the action had been commenced after the expiration of the three-year statute of limitations. In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact as to the action's timeliness (see New York Hosp. Med. Ctr. of Queens v. Motor Veh. Acc. Indem. Corp., 12 AD3d 429, 429 [2004] ; Precision Radiology Servs., P.C. v. MVAIC, 34 Misc.3d 126[A], 2011 N.Y. Slip Op 52274[U] [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2011]; Kings Highway Diagnostic Imaging, P.C. v. MVAIC, 19 Misc.3d 69 [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d & 11th Jud Dists 2008] ).
Accordingly, the order is reversed and defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint is granted.
PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ., concur.