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Antoniou v. Duff

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 31, 1994
204 A.D.2d 670 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)

Opinion

May 31, 1994

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


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion for summary judgment is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

Conclusions, even of an examining doctor, which are unsupported by acceptable objective proof, are insufficient to defeat a motion for summary judgment directed to the threshold issue of whether the plaintiff has suffered serious physical injury (see, Lopez v. Senatore, 65 N.Y.2d 1017; Georgia v. Ramautar, 180 A.D.2d 713). Since Dr. Shetty, the plaintiff's only medical expert, did not examine the plaintiff prior to the accident and failed to set forth any objective basis for determining the degree to which the plaintiff's multiple sclerosis had progressed prior to the accident, his conclusion that the pre-existing condition was exacerbated by the motor vehicle accident in which she was involved is insufficient to defeat the motion for summary judgment.

The plaintiff's continuing subjective complaints of pain also fail to establish serious injury under the statute (see, Tipping-Cestari v. Kilhenny, 174 A.D.2d 663). Thompson, J.P., Rosenblatt, Ritter, Friedmann and Krausman, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Antoniou v. Duff

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
May 31, 1994
204 A.D.2d 670 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
Case details for

Antoniou v. Duff

Case Details

Full title:ELENI ANTONIOU, Respondent, v. JOHN DUFF et al., Appellants

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

Date published: May 31, 1994

Citations

204 A.D.2d 670 (N.Y. App. Div. 1994)
612 N.Y.S.2d 430

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