Court Opinion

ID: 6009988
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 10:43:06.667117+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:50:18.396901
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In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the Suffolk County Department of Social Services appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of a resettled order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Underwood, J.), entered November 16, 1995, as granted the plaintiff’s application to establish a supplemental needs trust with certain settlement proceeds before satisfying a Medicaid lien.
Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly held that the satisfaction of a pre-existing Medicaid lien is not a precondition to the funding of a supplemental needs trust which conforms to Social Services Law § 366 (2) (b) (2) (iii) (see, Cricchio v Pennisi, 220 AD2d 100, Iv granted 88 NY2d 813; Link v Town of Smithtown, 226 AD2d 351, lv granted 88 NY2d 813; Rosado v Perez, 232 AD2d 468). Rosenblatt, J. P., Sullivan, Altman and Goldstein, JJ., concur.