November 1, 2016

Art of Healing Medicine, P.C. v Utica Mut. Ins. Co. (2016 NY Slip Op 51611(U))

Headnote

The court considered a case in which Art of Healing Medicine, P.C., as assignee of KEMAR GAYLE, was seeking to recover first-party no-fault benefits from Utica Mutual Insurance Company. The main issue was whether the plaintiff's assignor had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath. The court decided to affirm the order granting the defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, citing a similar case for the reasons for the decision. The holding of the case was that the plaintiff's assignor's failure to appear for examinations under oath justified the dismissal of the complaint seeking to recover first-party no-fault benefits.

Reported in New York Official Reports at Art of Healing Medicine, P.C. v Utica Mut. Ins. Co. (2016 NY Slip Op 51611(U))

Art of Healing Medicine, P.C. v Utica Mut. Ins. Co. (2016 NY Slip Op 51611(U)) [*1]
Art of Healing Medicine, P.C. v Utica Mut. Ins. Co.
2016 NY Slip Op 51611(U) [53 Misc 3d 147(A)]
Decided on November 1, 2016
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.

Decided on November 1, 2016

SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS


PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ.
2013-2785 Q C
Art of Healing Medicine, P.C., as Assignee of KEMAR GAYLE, Appellant,

against

Utica Mutual Insurance Company, Respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Larry Love, J.), entered December 3, 2013. The order granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with $25 costs.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court which granted defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff’s assignor had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath.

For the reasons stated in Art of Healing Medicine, P.C., as Assignee of Owen Minns v Utica Mut. Ins. Co. (___ Misc 3d ___, 2016 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2013-2716 Q C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

Pesce, P.J., Aliotta and Solomon, JJ., concur.


Decision Date: November 01, 2016