Opinion
2013-01-17
In re GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, etc., Petitioner–Respondent, v. Dawn MARTIN, Respondent, HF Management Services, LLC, et al., Proposed Additional Respondents–Appellants.
Law Offices of Stewart H. Friedman, Garden City (Robert F. Horvat of counsel), for appellants. Monfort Healy McGuire & Salley, Garden City (Donald S. Neumann, Jr., of counsel), for Government Employees Insurance Company, respondent.
Law Offices of Stewart H. Friedman, Garden City (Robert F. Horvat of counsel), for appellants. Monfort Healy McGuire & Salley, Garden City (Donald S. Neumann, Jr., of counsel), for Government Employees Insurance Company, respondent.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mary Ann Brigantti–Hughes, J.), entered December 1, 2011, which, after a framed-issue hearing in this proceeding pursuant to CPLR 7503(b) to permanently stay arbitration of an uninsured motorist claim, granted the petition and permanently stayed the arbitration, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Petitioner established by admissible proof that a vehicle owned and insured respectively by appellants was involved in the alleged accident. At the hearing, no objection was made to the admission of the police report containing the license plate number of the vehicle. Accordingly, the evidence is presumed to have been unobjectionable and any error is considered waived (CPLR 4017; Komsa v. Colonial Penn Ins. Co., 188 A.D.2d 367, 367, 591 N.Y.S.2d 36 [1st Dept. 1992] ). In any event, the contents of the police report were admissible under the present sense exception to the hearsay rule, as they were sufficiently corroborated by respondent's testimony ( see Jara v. Salinas–Ramirez, 65 A.D.3d 933, 885 N.Y.S.2d 286 [1st Dept. 2009];People v. Brown, 80 N.Y.2d 729, 594 N.Y.S.2d 696, 610 N.E.2d 369 [1993] ).