Mendez v. Mitchell

125 A.D.3d 618, 3 N.Y.S.3d 83

• Court: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
• Decided: February 4, 2015
• Docket: 2014-07867
• Status: Published

Opinion

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the de fendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Velasquez, J.), dated June 10, 2014, which denied their motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by the plaintiff Reina S. Mendez on the ground that Mendez did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) as a result of the subject accident.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The defendants failed to meet their prima facie burden of showing that the plaintiff Reina S. Mendez did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) as a result of the subject accident (see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345 [2002]; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957 [1992]). The papers submitted by the defendants, inter alia, failed to adequately address Mendez’s claim, set forth in the bill of particulars, that she sustained a serious injury under the 90/180-day category of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) (see Che Hong Kim v Kossoff, 90 AD3d 969 [2011]). Since the defendants did not sustain their prima facie burden, it is unnecessary to determine whether the papers submitted by Mendez in opposition were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see id. at 969). Therefore, the Supreme Court properly denied the defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted by Mendez.

Rivera, J.R, Hall, Roman, Cohen and Barros, JJ., concur.