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Nina Kapitanova, Appellant, v Luba Rafaeli, Respondent.
    [790 NYS2d 115]
   Order, Supreme Court, New York County (R. Bruce Cozzens, Jr., J., and a jury), entered October 6, 2003, upon a jury verdict, dismissing the complaint in an action for personal injuries sustained when plaintiff was struck by a cab driven by the decedent and co-owned by the decedent and defendant, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

The verdict is supported by the weight of the evidence showing that the accident was caused by a sudden, unforeseeable fatal heart attack suffered by the decedent just before his cab hit plaintiff (see McGinn v New York City Tr. Auth., 240 AD2d 378, 379 [1997]). Concur—Buckley, EJ., Tom, Saxe, Friedman and Sweeny, JJ.