Court Opinion

ID: 5885973
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 02:32:28.992084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:45:10.479061
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— Judgment unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and new trial granted. Memorandum: The trial court erred in receiving, over defendant’s objection, testimony from one of plaintiff’s treating physicians, based on his examination conducted the day before trial commenced, that plaintiff suffered a permanent neck injury. This testimony should have been precluded because plaintiff did not mention this specific injury in her bill of particulars (CPLR 3042 [c]), and did not timely disclose the doctor’s findings as required by this department’s rules (22 NYCRR 1024.25 [c], [e]; Cramer v Toledo Scale Co., 89 AD2d 1059, 1060). Had the doctor’s testimony properly been excluded, plaintiff may not have been able to establish that she suffered a "serious injury” (see, Insurance Law § 5102 [d]; Licari v Elliott, 57 NY2d 230; cf. Mooney v Ovitt, 100 AD2d 702, 704). (Appeal from judgment of Supreme Court, Onondaga County, Sullivan, J. — personal injury.) Present — Denman, J. P., Boomer, Green, O’Donnell and Schnepp, JJ.