Case ID: ad2d_278/html/0455-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Eileen Hayden, Respondent, v Bernard Plotkin, Appellant.
    [718 NYS2d 406]
   In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (DiNoto, J.), entered February 2, 2000, which denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff failed to 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 established a prima facie case that the plaintiffs injuries were not serious through the affirmed report of an orthopedist, who examined her and concluded that she sustained nothing more serious than a mild knee contusion which had resolved (see, Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957). The plaintiffs affirmations in opposition were insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see, Cruse v Berman, 276 AD2d 580; Grossman v Wright, 268 AD2d 79). O’Brien, J. P., Kratisman, Goldstein and Schmidt, JJ., concur.