Opinion
Submitted May 23, 2001.
July 9, 2001.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, Mergim Bazhdari appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Doyle, J.), dated September 5, 2000, which awarded Felberbaum, Halbridge Wirth 25% of the total attorney's fee due from a settlement in the underlying personal injury action and an award in the related underinsured motorist arbitration proceeding.
Mergim Bazhdari, Lake Success, N.Y., nonparty-appellant pro se.
Felberbaum, Halbridge Wirth, Commack, N.Y. (Samuel E. Felberbaum of counsel), nonparty-respondent pro se.
Before: DAVID S. RITTER, J.P., MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, LEO F. McGINITY, NANCY E. SMITH, BARRY A. COZIER, JJ.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.
Contrary to the appellant's contention, the Supreme Court providently exercised its discretion in apportioning the attorney's fee in this case (see, Ebrahimian v. Long Is. R. R., 269 A.D.2d 488; Melvin v. City of New York, 244 A.D.2d 390; Matter of Budin Reisman Schwartz v. Giamoi, Reiss Squitieri, 224 A.D.2d 325).
RITTER, J.P., ALTMAN, McGINITY, SMITH and COZIER, JJ., concur.