March 8, 2019

New York Infinity Health Care, LCSW, P.C. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y. (2019 NY Slip Op 50278(U))

Headnote

The court considered an appeal from an order denying the defendant's motion to sever the first cause of action seeking to recover upon a claim for services rendered to Shavkat Djalilov from the remaining causes of action in an action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits. The main issue was whether the defendant's motion to sever the first cause of action should be granted pursuant to CPLR 603. The court held that the order denying the defendant's motion to sever was affirmed, with the reasoning to be provided in a separate case. The main holding of the case was that the defendant's motion to sever the first cause of action was properly denied.

Reported in New York Official Reports at New York Infinity Health Care, LCSW, P.C. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y. (2019 NY Slip Op 50278(U))

New York Infinity Health Care, LCSW, P.C. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y. (2019 NY Slip Op 50278(U)) [*1]
New York Infinity Health Care, LCSW, P.C. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of N.Y.
2019 NY Slip Op 50278(U) [62 Misc 3d 150(A)]
Decided on March 8, 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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 March 8, 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
2016-2227 K C
New York Infinity Health Care, LCSW, P.C., as Assignee of Shavkat Djalilov, Abada Hajar, Davron Khuseynov, Omar Nyami Morabit and Dilbar Sharipova, Respondent,

against

Global Liberty Insurance Company of New York, Appellant.

Law Office of Jason Tenenbaum, P.C. (Jason Tenenbaum of counsel), for appellant. Petre and Zabokritsky, P.C., for respondent (no brief filed).

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Steven Z. Mostofsky, J.), entered August 17, 2016. The order denied defendant’s motion to sever the first cause of action seeking to recover upon a claim for services rendered to Shavkat Djalilov from the remaining causes of action.

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

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, defendant appeals from an order of the Civil Court which denied defendant’s motion, which had sought, pursuant to CPLR 603, to sever the first cause of action seeking to recover upon a claim for services rendered to Shavkat Djalilov from the remaining causes of action. Defendant’s counsel asserted that the causes of action had arisen out of five accidents and that multiple defenses had been interposed in the answer. The Civil Court denied defendant’s motion.

For the reasons stated in Himalayans Acupuncture, P.C., as Assignee of Davron Khuseynov, et al. v Global Liberty Ins. Co. of NY (___ Misc 3d ___, 2019 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2016-2225 K C], decided herewith), the order is affirmed.

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


ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: March 08, 2019