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Rodriguez v. Zavada

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 18, 2005
2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 51654 (N.Y. App. Term 2005)

Opinion

570683/04.

Decided October 18, 2005.

Plaintiffs appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Bronx County, entered March 29, 2004 (Raul Cruz, J.), granting defendants' motion and cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

Order entered March 29, 2004 (Raul Cruz, J.) affirmed, with $10 costs.

PRESENT: HON. LUCINDO SUAREZ, P.J. HON. WILLIAM P. McCOOE HON. MARTIN SCHOENFELD, Justices.


The record is devoid of admissible evidence of "serious injury" (Insurance Law § 5102[d]) at the time of the vehicular accident in 1998. No showing was made that the first-named plaintiff underwent any course of treatment for the injuries she allegedly sustained. ( see Thompson v. Abbasi, 15 AD3d 95; Bent v. Jackson, 15 AD3d 46). Since plaintiff's medical expert examined her for the first (and only) time four years after the accident — and two years after another vehicular collision in which plaintiff was injured — his opinion as to permanence and significance was too speculative to defeat summary judgment ( see Arjona v. Calcano, 7 AD3d 279).

This constitutes the decision and order of the court.


Summaries of

Rodriguez v. Zavada

Appellate Term of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department
Oct 18, 2005
2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 51654 (N.Y. App. Term 2005)
Case details for

Rodriguez v. Zavada

Case Details

Full title:LORRAINE RODRIGUEZ and AIDA RODRIGUEZ, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MEREDITH…

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

Date published: Oct 18, 2005

Citations

2005 N.Y. Slip Op. 51654 (N.Y. App. Term 2005)