Opinion
2018-1596 K C
12-13-2019
ARIES CHIROPRACTIC, P.C., as Assignee of Max Guzhva, Appellant, v. AMERIPRISE INS. CO., Respondent.
Kopelevich & Feldsherova, P.C. (David Landfair of counsel), for appellant. Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano, LLP (Nathan M. Shapiro of counsel), for respondent.
Kopelevich & Feldsherova, P.C. (David Landfair of counsel), for appellant. Bruno, Gerbino & Soriano, LLP (Nathan M. Shapiro of counsel), for respondent.
PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., THOMAS P. ALIOTTA, BERNICE D. SIEGAL, JJ.
ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with $25 costs.
In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath (EUOs).
Contrary to plaintiff's contention, defendant's denial of claim form did not need to set forth the dates of the EUOs for which plaintiff had failed to appear. "Had it been the intent of the Department of [Financial Services] to require the carrier to set forth [the dates of the scheduled EUOs] in the prescribed denial of claim form (see NYS Form N-F 10; 11 NYCRR 65-3.4 [c] [11] ), it would have so provided" ( A.B. Med. Servs., PLLC v Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. , 39 AD3d 779, 780 [2007] ; A.B. Med. Servs., PLLC v GEICO Cas. Ins. Co. , 39 AD3d 778, 779 [2007] ; cf. Unitrin Advantage Ins. Co. v All of NY, Inc. , 158 AD3d 449 [1st Dept 2018] ).
Accordingly, the order is affirmed.
PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SIEGAL, JJ., concur.