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Pitter v. Ceesay

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jul 14, 2009
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 51488 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)

Opinion

570376/08.

Decided July 14, 2009.

Defendant appeals from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered April 10, 2008, which denied her motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Order (Fernando Tapia, J.), entered April 10, 2008, reversed, with $10 costs, motion granted and complaint dismissed. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.

PRESENT: McKeon, P.J., Schoenfeld, Heitler, JJ.


The failure of plaintiff Carty or her physicians to address or explain the gap in treatment is fatal to said plaintiff's serious injury claims under the "significant limitation" and "permanent consequential limitation" categories of Insurance Law § 5102(d) ( see Rubensccastro v Alfaro, 29 AD3d 436; Vasquez v Reluzco, 28 AD3d 365). Moreover, in the absence of objective findings of limitation of motion contemporaneous with the vehicular accident, plaintiff Carty failed to raise a triable issue with respect to her 90/180-day claim ( see Brantley v New York City Metro. Tr. Auth., 48 AD3d 313).

The infant plaintiff's submission was similarly deficient since it lacked any medical evidence to controvert the report of defendant's medical expert that the infant plaintiff had no residual or permanent injury as a result of the accident.

THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.


Summaries of

Pitter v. Ceesay

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Jul 14, 2009
2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 51488 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)
Case details for

Pitter v. Ceesay

Case Details

Full title:WHITNEY PITTER, and infant under the age of fourteen (14) years by her…

Court:Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department

Date published: Jul 14, 2009

Citations

2009 N.Y. Slip Op. 51488 (N.Y. App. Term 2009)