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Hernandez v. Gocool

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 16, 2000
276 A.D.2d 593 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)

Opinion

Submitted September 6, 2000.

October 16, 2000.

In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiffs appeal, as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Golia, J.), dated July 19, 1999, as granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that neither plaintiff sustained a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d).

Weiss Rosenbloom, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Barry D. Weiss of counsel), for appellant Felix Hernandez, and Martin J. Schwartz, New York, N.Y., for appellant Abraham Hernandez (one brief filed).

Smith, Mazure, Director, Wilkins, Young, Yagerman Tarallo, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Mark S. Yagerman and Joseph A. Schwarzenberg of counsel), for respondents.

Before: LAWRENCE J. BRACKEN, J.P., FRED T. SANTUCCI, MYRIAM J. ALTMAN, ANITA R. FLORIO, JJ.


DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is denied, and the complaint is reinstated.

The medical evidence submitted by the plaintiffs in opposition to the defendants' motion for summary judgment was in proper form (see, Dair Bldg. Constr. Co. v. Mayer, 31 A.D.2d 835). Moreover, the defendants did not make a showing of their initial entitlement to summary judgment. The defendants failed to make out a prima facie case that the plaintiffs did not sustain medically-determined injuries caused by the accident which prevented them, for a period of 90 out of the 180 days following the accident, from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted their usual and customary daily activities (see, Polizzi v. Won Jun Choi, 264 A.D.2d 830). Therefore, the Supreme Court erred in granting summary judgment to the defendants. In light of this determination, we have not reviewed the court's subsequent order denying leave to renew (see, CPLR 5517[b]).


Summaries of

Hernandez v. Gocool

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Oct 16, 2000
276 A.D.2d 593 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
Case details for

Hernandez v. Gocool

Case Details

Full title:ABRAHAM HERNANDEZ, ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. OONKARH GOCOOL, ET AL.…

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

Date published: Oct 16, 2000

Citations

276 A.D.2d 593 (N.Y. App. Div. 2000)
715 N.Y.S.2d 327