Opinion
14863 Index No. 8078/05 Case No. 2021-00559
12-14-2021
Elsy RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiff–Respondent, v. The CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants–Appellants.
Anna J. Ervolina, Brooklyn (Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy of counsel), for appellants. Sonin & Genis, LLC, Bronx (Robert J. Genis of counsel), for respondent.
Anna J. Ervolina, Brooklyn (Timothy J. O'Shaughnessy of counsel), for appellants.
Sonin & Genis, LLC, Bronx (Robert J. Genis of counsel), for respondent.
Gische, J.P., Webber, Oing, Singh, Higgitt, JJ.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Mitchell J. Danziger, J.), entered on or about December 18, 2020, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, in granting defendants' motion to compel discovery on plaintiff's newly disclosed medical treatment, directed that the newly ordered independent medical examination (IME) be performed by the same orthopedist, Dr. Robert M. Israel, who had performed the earlier IME, unanimously reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, without costs, to delete the language directing that defendants have Dr. Israel perform the new IME.
Defendants should not have been directed to have Dr. Israel perform the IME in connection with plaintiff's newly disclosed medical treatment, as Dr. Israel's license had by then been permanently altered to preclude him from performing IMEs (compare Rebollo v. Nicholas Cab. Corp., 125 A.D.3d 452, 2 N.Y.S.3d 471 [1st Dept. 2015] [the fact that the defendants' examining physician was placed on a three-year suspension after examining the plaintiff did not alone justify an additional examination by another physician; there was no allegation of new or additional injuries]).