Mollins v State Farm Gen. Ins. Co.
Annotate this CaseDecided on April 22, 2009
APPELLATE TERM OF THE SUPREME COURT, FIRST DEPARTMENT
PRESENT: McKeon, P.J., Schoenfeld, JJ
570231/08.
Jeff Mollins, D.C. a/a/o Peggy Winns, Plaintiff-Appellant, - -
against
State Farm General Insurance Company, Defendant-Respondent.
Plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, New York
County (Joan M. Kenney, J.), entered August 17, 2007, which denied its motion for summary
judgment.
Per Curiam.
Order (Joan M. Kenney, J.), entered August 17, 2007, reversed, with $10 costs, and plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in the principal sum of $554.76 is granted. The Clerk is directed to enter judgment accordingly.
Plaintiff established a prima facie entitlement to summary judgment by submitting
evidentiary proof that the prescribed statutory billing forms had been mailed and received, and
that payment of no-fault benefits was overdue (see Insurance Law § 5106 [a]; Mary Immaculate Hosp. v Allstate Ins.
Co., 5 AD3d 742 [2004]). In opposition, defendant failed to raise a triable issue. Even
assuming that defendant timely denied plaintiff's no-fault claims, the unsworn chiropractor's
report submitted by defendant in support of its defense of lack of medical necessity was not in
admissible form, a defect which requires its exclusion from consideration (see CPLR
2106; Shinn v Catanzaro, 1 AD3d
195, 197 [2003]; Mollins v Motor
Veh. Acc. Indem. Corp., 14 Misc 3d 133[A], 2007 NY Slip Op 50138[U] [2007]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER OF THE COURT.
I concurI concur
Decision Date: April 22, 2009
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