June 8, 2018

Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Servs. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2018 NY Slip Op 50877(U))

Headnote

The main issues decided in this legal case were a provider's attempt to recover first-party no-fault benefits, and the defendant's argument that the plaintiff had failed to appear for scheduled examinations under oath. The court considered the denial of the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment and the granting of the defendant's cross motion for summary judgment to dismiss the complaint. The holding of the case was that the order was affirmed, with the court determining that the plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath, which justified the dismissal of the complaint. This decision was consistent with a similar case decided at the same time.

Reported in New York Official Reports at Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Servs. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2018 NY Slip Op 50877(U))

Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Servs. v GEICO Ins. Co. (2018 NY Slip Op 50877(U)) [*1]

Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Servs. v GEICO Ins. Co.

2018 NY Slip Op 50877(U) [59 Misc 3d 153(A)]

Decided on June 8, 2018

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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 June 8, 2018

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

PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, DAVID ELLIOT, JJ
2015-2824 Q C

Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Services; Lyonel F. Paul, M.D., as Assignee of Bonitto, Okang, Appellant,
against
GEICO Ins. Co., Respondent.

The Rybak Firm, PLLC (Damin J. Toell of counsel), for appellant. Rivkin Radler, LLP (Cheryl F. Korman, Henry Mascia and Stuart M. Bodoff of counsel), for respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Terrence C. O’Connor, J.), entered October 16, 2015. 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 moved for summary judgment, and defendant cross-moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath. Plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court which denied plaintiff’s motion and granted defendant’s cross motion.

For the reasons stated in Gentlecare Ambulatory Anesthesia Servs. etc., as Assignee of Saint-Louis, Lydia v GEICO Ins. Co. (__ Misc 3d ___, 2018 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2015-1996 K C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

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

ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: June 08, 2018