Carrington-White v Malvey

Carrington-White v Malvey 2009 NY Slip Op 07572 [66 AD3d 811] October 20, 2009 Appellate Division, Second Department Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431. As corrected through Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Shelly Carrington-White, Respondent,
v
Jennifer Malvey, Appellant.

—[*1] Martin, Fallon & MullÉ, Huntington, N.Y. (Richard C. MullÉ of counsel), for appellant.

Gersowitz, Libo & Korek, P.C., New York, N.Y. (Stacey T. Sokol of counsel), for respondent.

In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Vaughan, J.), dated June 25, 2008, which granted the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In response to the plaintiff's demonstration of her entitlement to judgment as a matter of law on the issue of liability, the defendant failed to submit evidence sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see generally Alvarez v Prospect Hosp., 68 NY2d 320 [1986]). The defendant's contention that she must have been struck in the rear by an unidentified vehicle immediately before her vehicle struck a cement barrier, causing her vehicle to then strike the plaintiff's vehicle, was pure speculation (see Woods v Johnson, 44 AD3d 1201 [2007]; cf. Empire Ins. Co. v Lackowitz, 58 AD3d 797 [2009]). Dillon, J.P., Dickerson, Lott and Austin, JJ., concur.