Case Name: Munawar Hussain, Respondent, v. Juan B. Tejada et al., Appellants
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2012-10-17
Citations: 99 A.D.3d 862
Docket Number: 
Parties: Munawar Hussain, Respondent, v Juan B. Tejada et al., Appellants.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 99
Pages: 862–863

Head Matter:
Munawar Hussain, Respondent, v Juan B. Tejada et al., Appellants.
[952 NYS2d 284]

Opinion:
While we affirm the order appealed from, we do so on a ground different from that relied upon by the Supreme Court. The defendants failed to meet their prima facie burden of showing that the plaintiff 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 failed to adequately address the plaintiff's claim, set forth in the bill of particulars, that he sustained a medically determined injury or impairment of a nonpermanent nature which prevented him from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted his usual and customary daily activities for not less than 90 days during the 180 days immediately following the subject accident (see Takaroff v A.M. USA, Inc., 63 AD3d 1142, 1143 [2009]).
Since the defendants did not sustain their prima facie burden, it is unnecessary to determine whether the papers submitted by the plaintiff in opposition were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (id. at 1144).
Accordingly, the Supreme Court properly denied the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. Mastro, J.E, Florio, Leventhal, Belen and Cohen, JJ., concur.