Muhammad Tahir, M.D., P.C. v Hertz Claims Mgt.

[*1] Muhammad Tahir, M.D., P.C. v Hertz Claims Mgt. 2014 NY Slip Op 50625(U) Decided on April 7, 2014 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 This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 April 7, 2014
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ
2010-1729 Q C.

Muhammad Tahir, M.D., P.C. as Assignee of EJIKE EGUEKWE, Respondent, April 7, 2014

against

Hertz Claims Management, Appellant.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (William A. Viscovich, J.), entered May 3, 2010. The order denied defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

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

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that defendant had timely and properly denied the claims at issue based on plaintiff's assignor's failure to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath (EUOs). The Civil Court denied defendant's motion.

Because defendant failed to submit proof by someone with personal knowledge of the nonappearance of plaintiff's assignor for the EUOs in question, defendant's motion was properly denied (see Alrof, Inc. v Safeco Natl. Ins. Co., 39 Misc 3d 130[A], 2013 NY Slip Op 50458[U] [App Term, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2013]).

Accordingly, the order is affirmed.

Pesce, P.J., Aliotta and Solomon, JJ., concur.
Decision Date: April 07, 2014