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

Tatyana Azbel, Respondent, v Felice Pennacchia, Appellant.
    [774 NYS2d 426]
   In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Richmond County (Gigante, J.), dated June 17, 2003, which denied her motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d).

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

The defendant made a prima facie showing that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) as a result of the subject motor vehicle accident. The affirmation of the plaintiffs physician submitted in opposition to the motion was insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345 [2002]; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955 [1992]).

Accordingly, the defendant was entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Prudenti, P.J., Florio, H. Miller, Schmidt and Cozier, JJ., concur.