Case Name: Nina Kapitanova, Appellant, v. Luba Rafaeli, Respondent
Court: New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 2005-03-01
Citations: 16 A.D.3d 108
Docket Number: 
Parties: Nina Kapitanova, Appellant, v Luba Rafaeli, Respondent.
Judges: 
Reporter: Appellate Division Reports
Volume: 16
Pages: 108–109

Head Matter:
Nina Kapitanova, Appellant, v Luba Rafaeli, Respondent.
[790 NYS2d 115]

Opinion:
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.