December 13, 2019

Comprehensive Care Physical Therapy, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2019 NY Slip Op 52070(U))

Headnote

The relevant facts of the case involved an action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits. The plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath. The main issue decided was whether the plaintiff's failure to appear for scheduled examinations under oath warranted the denial of their motion for summary judgment and the granting of the defendant's cross-motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. The holding of the case was that the order denying plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and granting defendant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint was affirmed, with $25 costs. This decision was based on the plaintiff's failure to appear for scheduled examinations under oath, similar to the reasoning in another case decided with this one.

Reported in New York Official Reports at Comprehensive Care Physical Therapy, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2019 NY Slip Op 52070(U))

Comprehensive Care Physical Therapy, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2019 NY Slip Op 52070(U)) [*1]

Comprehensive Care Physical Therapy, P.C. v GEICO Ins. Co.

2019 NY Slip Op 52070(U) [66 Misc 3d 131(A)]

Decided on December 13, 2019

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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 December 13, 2019

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

PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, BERNICE D. SIEGAL, JJ
2018-1813 K C

Comprehensive Care Physical Therapy, P.C., as Assignee of Vunibobo, Mereoni, Appellant,
against
GEICO Ins. Co., Respondent.

The Rybak Firm, PLLC (Damin J. Toell of counsel), for appellant. Rivkin Radler, LLP (Stuart M. Bodoff of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Sharon Bourne-Clarke, J.), entered June 15, 2018. The order denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted defendant’s cross 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 denied plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment and granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath.

For the reasons stated in Omphil Care, Inc., as Assignee of Small, Shereen v GEICO Ins. Co. (__ Misc 3d ___, 2019 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2018-1604 K C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SIEGAL, JJ., concur.

ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: December 13, 2019