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Tirado v. Craig

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jul 7, 1997
241 A.D.2d 449 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)

Opinion

July 7, 1997

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Kings County (Rappaport, J.).


Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion for summary judgment is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

In light of the plaintiff's admission at his deposition that he did not miss any work as a result of the accident and that he missed only one day of school, he has failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether his injuries prevented him from performing substantially all of the material acts constituting his customary daily activities during at least 90 of the first 180 days following the accident ( see, Letellier v. Walker, 222 A.D.2d 658).

The plaintiff also sought to recover damages by claiming that he had suffered a "significant limitation of use of a body function or system" (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]). However, the plaintiff failed to provide objective evidence of the extent or degree of the limitation and thus failed to establish that he suffered a significant limitation ( see, Beckett v. Conte, 176 A.D.2d 774).

In addition, the plaintiff has failed to establish a "`permanent loss'" or "`permanent consequential limitation of use of a body organ or member'" ( McLiverty v. Urban, 131 A.D.2d 449, 450). The plaintiff did not miss any work as a result of the accident, has not curtailed most of his routine activities, and has admitted that he did not take any medication for his injuries with the exception of taking aspirin on the night following the accident.

Miller, J. P., Thompson, Joy and Luciano, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Tirado v. Craig

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Jul 7, 1997
241 A.D.2d 449 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
Case details for

Tirado v. Craig

Case Details

Full title:MELANIO TIRADO, Respondent, v. BRUCE T. CRAIG et al., Appellants

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Jul 7, 1997

Citations

241 A.D.2d 449 (N.Y. App. Div. 1997)
663 N.Y.S.2d 831

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