Sandt v. Ny Racing Ass'n
| Decision Date | 03 December 2001 |
| Docket Number | 2,01-02479 |
| Parties | ROBERT SANDT, ET AL., APPELLANTS, v. NEW YORK RACING ASSOCIATION, INC., ET AL., RESPONDENTS. 2001-02479 2001-05204 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK APPELLATE DIVISION: SECOND JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Submitted - |
| Court | New York Supreme Court — Appellate Division |
Andrea & Towsky, Garden City, N.Y. (Frank A. Andrea III and Robert W. Corcoran of counsel), for appellants.
Ahmuty, Demers & McManus, Albertson, N.Y. (Frederick B. Simpson and Brendan T. Fitzpatrick of counsel), for respondents.
DECISION & ORDER
Gabriel M. Krausman
Daniel F. Luciano
Nancy E. Smith
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, etc., the plaintiffs appeal (1), as limited by their brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Polizzi, J.), dated January 29, 2001, as granted the defendants' cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the plaintiff Robert Sandt did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law §§ 5102(d), and (2) from a judgment of the same court entered March 5, 2001, dismissing the complaint.
ORDERED that the respondents are awarded one bill of costs.
The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action (see, Matter of Aho, 39 N.Y.2d 241, 248). The issues raised on appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment (see, CPLR 5501[a][1]).
In support of their cross motion for summary judgment, the defendants submitted evidence that the plaintiff Robert Sandt was suffering from pre-existing hypertrophic degenerative arthritis affecting his cervical spine at the C5-C6 and C6-C7 levels, and his left shoulder. They also submitted the probative medical reports of their examining orthopedist and neurologist, which were based upon examinations conducted over two years after the subject accident. The reports indicated that Robert Sandt suffered a contusion or sprain of the neck and left shoulder which had completely subsided, he had full range of motion in his cervical spine, there were no objective findings of the left shoulder, and he had no orthopedic or neurological disability. Thus, the defendants made a prima facie showing that Robert Sandt did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law §§ 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident (see, Holmes v. Hanson, A.D.2d [2d Dept., Sept. 24, 2001]...
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