Andujar v. Boyle
| Decision Date | 27 January 2021 |
| Docket Number | 2019–06980,Index No. 69668/17 |
| Parties | Jessica V. ANDUJAR, respondent, v. Christine Susan BOYLE, et al., appellants. |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Collins, Fitzpatrick & Schoene, LLP, White Plains, NY (Ralph F. Schoene of counsel), for appellants.
Tomkiel & Tomkiel, Scarsdale, NY (Matthew Tomkiel of counsel), for respondent.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS, J.P., HECTOR D. LASALLE ANGELA G. IANNACCI LINDA CHRISTOPHER, JJ.
DECISION & ORDER
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendants appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Westchester County (Joan B. Lefkowitz, J.), dated May 6, 2019. The order denied the defendants' motion to strike the note of issue and certificate of readiness and to compel the plaintiff to appear for an independent medical examination.
ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the facts and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and the defendants' motion to strike the note of issue and certificate of readiness and to compel the plaintiff to appear for an independent medical examination is granted.
The plaintiff commenced this action to recover damages for personal injuries that she allegedly sustained in a motor vehicle accident that occurred on October 20, 2016. After the plaintiff filed a note of issue and certificate of readiness which indicated that the defendants waived their right to conduct physical examinations of the plaintiff, the defendants moved to strike the note of issue and certificate of readiness and to compel the plaintiff to appear for an independent medical examination. The Supreme Court denied the defendants' motion, and the defendants appeal.
Although a defendant waives the right to medical examinations of the plaintiff by failing to conduct them within the time period set forth in compliance conference orders (see Arroyo v. Lacuesta, 140 A.D.3d 994, 34 N.Y.S.3d 148 ; Rivera–Martinez v. New York City Tr. Auth., 114 A.D.3d 654, 655, 979 N.Y.S.2d 663 ; Spano v. Omni Eng'g, LLC, 69 A.D.3d 922, 893 N.Y.S.2d 259 ), "under certain circumstances and absent a showing of prejudice to the opposing party, the court may exercise its discretion to relieve a party of a waiver of the right to conduct a physical examination" ( Spano v. Omni Eng'g, LLC, 69 A.D.3d at 922, 893 N.Y.S.2d 259 ; see Jones v. Grand Opal Constr. Corp., 64 A.D.3d 543, 544, 883 N.Y.S.2d 253 ). Here, a scheduled medical examination of the plaintiff failed to happen due to a clerical error by the...
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