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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Michael J. Vendette et al., Appellants, v Michael S. Feinberg, Respondent.
   — Order unanimously reversed, on the law, with costs, and motion denied. Memorandum: Special Term erred in granting summary judgment to the defendant doctor in this medical malpractice action. Although defendant, by expert opinion evidence, sought to establish his entitlement to summary judgment (cf. Winegrad v New York Univ. Med. Center, 64 NY2d 851), plaintiff sufficiently opposed the motion by alleging defendant admitted to him that defendant misread an X ray revealing that the bones in plaintiff’s wrist had not fully healed. Such an admission of a party constitutes evidence in admissible form necessary to defeat a motion for summary judgment (see generally, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557; Richardson, Evidence § 209 [Prince 10th edj; see also, Dietz v Aronson, 244 App Div 746). Although defendant denied making the admission, this creates a triable issue of fact precluding summary judgment. Cases upon which defendant relies (e.g., Maust v Arseneau, 116 AD2d 1012; Neuman v Greenstein, 99 AD2d 1018; Pan v Coburn, 95 AD2d 670; Himber v Pfizer Labs., 82 AD2d 776, 777) did not involve an alleged admission by the defendant doctor and are they not controlling of the facts presented here. (Appeal from order of Supreme Court, Chautauqua County, Kubiniec, J. — summary judgment.) Present — Doerr, J. P., Green, Balio, Lawton and Schnepp, JJ.