Opinion
2009-1044 K C.
Decided June 11, 2010.
Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Wavny Toussaint, J.), entered May 1, 2009. The order granted defendant's motion for summary judgment and denied plaintiff's cross motion for summary judgment.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed without costs.
PRESENT: PESCE, P.J., WESTON and GOLIA, JJ.
In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, and plaintiff cross-moved for summary judgment. The Civil Court granted defendant's motion and denied plaintiff's cross motion, finding that there was no coverage for the claims at issue because the assignor had breached a condition precedent to coverage by failing to appear for two properly scheduled examinations under oath (EUOs). Plaintiff appeals from that order, and we affirm.
On appeal, plaintiff's only contention is that the EUO scheduling letters were "nullities" because they were sent by defendant's counsel on behalf of defendant, not by defendant directly. Plaintiff's argument lacks merit. The letters clearly apprised the assignor that counsel had been retained by defendant and that the letters were being sent on defendant's behalf. Accordingly, the Civil Court properly found that the assignor had breached a condition precedent to coverage, and the order is affirmed.
We reach no other issue.
Pesce, P.J., Weston and Golia, JJ., concur.