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Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Nov 19, 1997
244 A.D.2d 862 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Opinion

November 19, 1997

(Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Oneida County, Buckley, J. — Summary Judgment.)

Present — Denman, P. J., Hayes, Callahan, Doerr and Boehm, JJ.


Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendant's motion for summary judgment but erred in granting plaintiffs' cross motion for summary judgment. "On a motion for summary judgment, the court should accept as true the evidence submitted by the opposing party and any evidence of the movant which favors the opposing party" ( O'Sullivan v. Presbyterian Hosp., 217 A.D.2d 98, 101). In granting plaintiffs' cross motion, the court erroneously disregarded the opinion of defendant's expert, which was supported by entries in the medical records of plaintiff Fay Bunk. Defendant thereby raised an issue of fact precluding summary judgment ( see, Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 N.Y.2d 557). Therefore, we modify the order by denying plaintiffs' cross motion.


Summaries of

Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Fourth Department
Nov 19, 1997
244 A.D.2d 862 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
Case details for

Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown

Case Details

Full title:GEORGE BUNK et al., Respondents, v. BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF…

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

Date published: Nov 19, 1997

Citations

244 A.D.2d 862 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
668 N.Y.S.2d 121

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