Opinion
March 4, 1985
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (McCarthy, J.).
Order reversed, on the law, with costs, motion granted, and complaint dismissed as against defendant Jeffrey M. Brown.
The question of whether plaintiff has established a prima facie case of serious injury rests with the court in the first instance (Insurance Law § 671 [4]; Licari v. Elliott, 57 N.Y.2d 230; DeFilippo v. White, 101 A.D.2d 801; Nolan v. Ford, 100 A.D.2d 579; Lopez v. Senatore, 97 A.D.2d 787). At bar, defendant Brown submitted in support of his motion an affidavit and medical report from a physician who had examined plaintiff on his behalf, which demonstrated that plaintiff had not sustained a serious injury. Plaintiff, on the other hand, submitted no opposition to the motion. Moreover, even a review of the chiropractor's medical report submitted in support of plaintiff's bill of particulars fails to disclose that he sustained a serious injury ( De Filippo v. White, supra). Accordingly, in view of the fact that plaintiff failed to submit "evidentiary proof in [an] admissible form" ( Friends of Animals v. Associated Fur Mfrs., 46 N.Y.2d 1065, 1067) which would establish a prima facie case of a serious injury, defendant Brown's motion for summary judgment should have been granted ( De Filippo v. White, supra; Lopez v. Senatore, supra). Gibbons, J.P., Weinstein, Brown and Eiber, JJ., concur.