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Delfino v. Davey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 19, 1990
159 A.D.2d 604 (N.Y. App. Div. 1990)

Opinion

March 19, 1990

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Dutchess County (Jiudice, J.).


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with one bill of costs payable to the respondents appearing separately and filing separate briefs.

The Supreme Court properly granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants. The medical reports submitted by the plaintiff do not establish that she suffered a permanent loss of use of a body organ, member, function, or system (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]). Those reports show that the plaintiff sustained a mild cervical, thoracic, and lumbar sprain. We find that the injuries are insignificant within the meaning of the statute (see, Palmer v Amaker, 141 A.D.2d 622; see also, Martini v Asmann, 146 A.D.2d 571; Grotzer v Levy, 133 A.D.2d 67), notwithstanding numerous visits by the plaintiff to physicians. Moreover, "[t]he subjective quality of plaintiff's transitory pain does not fall within the objective verbal definition of serious injury as contemplated by the No-Fault Insurance Law" (Scheer v Koubek, 70 N.Y.2d 678, 679; see also, McLiverty v Urban, 131 A.D.2d 449; De Filippo v White, 101 A.D.2d 801). Nor has the plaintiff presented any evidence establishing that she was prevented from "performing substantially all of the material acts which constitute [her] usual and customary daily activities for not less than ninety days during the one hundred eighty days immediately following the occurrence" (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]). Brown, J.P., Lawrence, Eiber and Rosenblatt, JJ., concur.


Summaries of

Delfino v. Davey

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department
Mar 19, 1990
159 A.D.2d 604 (N.Y. App. Div. 1990)
Case details for

Delfino v. Davey

Case Details

Full title:ROSEANN DELFINO, Appellant, v. ROBERT W. DAVEY et al., Respondents

Court:Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department

Date published: Mar 19, 1990

Citations

159 A.D.2d 604 (N.Y. App. Div. 1990)
552 N.Y.S.2d 658

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