Opinion
February 16, 2001.
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Janice Bowman, J.), entered August 12, 1999, which denied defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, summary judgment granted to defendants and the complaint dismissed . The Clerk is directed to enter judgment in favor of defendants dismissing the complaint.
Howard I. Dubow, for plaintiff-respondent.
Thomas Torto, for defendants-appellants.
Before: Sullivan, P.J., Nardelli, Williams, Tom, Friedman, JJ.
In order to defeat defendants' summary judgment motion in this legal malpractice action, plaintiff needed to raise a triable issue of material fact that demonstrated that she would have prevailed in the underlying slip and fall action but for defendants' failure to properly commence it (see, Colleran v. Rockman, 275 A.D.2d 222; Plentino Realty, Ltd. v. Gitomer, 216 A.D.2d 87, lv denied 87 N.Y.2d 805). However, she fails in this regard as a matter of law in that the record is bereft of any facts as to how her accident occurred, thus rendering it impossible to determine the likelihood that she would have prevailed. Her only relevant submissions were a conclusory statement in her complaint that she slipped and fell on ice at a certain time and place, and the affirmation of her attorney, who had no personal knowledge of the accident and who merely made a conclusory statement as to the liability of the entity purportedly responsible for snow removal at the time and place in question (see,Capelin Assocs. v. Globe Mfg. Corp., 34 N.Y.2d 338, 342).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.