November 3, 2017

TAM Med. Supply Corp. v 21st Century Ins. Co. (2017 NY Slip Op 51511(U))

Headnote

The relevant facts the court considered were that TAM Medical Supply Corp. was seeking to recover first-party no-fault benefits that had been assigned to them. The main issue decided was whether plaintiff had failed to appear for scheduled examinations under oath. The holding of the case was that the order granting defendant's cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the grounds of plaintiff's failure to appear for scheduled examinations under oath was affirmed.

Reported in New York Official Reports at TAM Med. Supply Corp. v 21st Century Ins. Co. (2017 NY Slip Op 51511(U))

TAM Med. Supply Corp. v 21st Century Ins. Co. (2017 NY Slip Op 51511(U)) [*1]
TAM Med. Supply Corp. v 21st Century Ins. Co.
2017 NY Slip Op 51511(U) [57 Misc 3d 149(A)]
Decided on November 3, 2017
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This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.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 November 3, 2017
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE TERM, SECOND DEPARTMENT, 2d, 11th and 13th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS
PRESENT: : MICHAEL L. PESCE, P.J., THOMAS P. ALOTTA, MARTIN M. SOLOMON, JJ
2014-2700 Q C

TAM Medical Supply Corp., as Assignee of Moore, Natasha, Appellant,

against

21st Century Insurance Company, Respondent.

The Rybak Firm, PLLC (Joseph D. DePalma, Esq,), for appellant. Law Offices of Bryan M. Rothenberg (Sharon A. Brennan, Esq.), for respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Cheree A. Buggs, J.), entered October 15, 2014. The order, insofar as appealed from as limited by the brief, granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint.

ORDERED that the order, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed, with $25 costs.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Civil Court as granted defendant’s cross motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that plaintiff had failed to appear for duly scheduled examinations under oath.

For the reasons stated in TAM Med. Supply Corp., as Assignee of Garcia, Nancy v 21st Century Ins. Co. (___ Misc 3d ___, 2017 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2014-2698 Q C], decided herewith), the order, insofar as appealed from, is affirmed.

PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ., concur.


ENTER:
Paul Kenny
Chief Clerk
Decision Date: November 03, 2017