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TARHAN v. KABASHI

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
Oct 16, 2007
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Ordered that the appeal from the order is dismissed; and it is further,

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed insofar as appealed from; and it is further,

Ordered that one bill of costs is awarded to the defendants. The appeal from the intermediate order must be dismissed because the right of direct appeal therefrom terminated with the entry of judgment in the action ( see Matter of Aho, 39 NY2d 241, 248). The issues raised on the appeal from the order are brought up for review and have been considered on the appeal from the judgment ( see CPLR 5501 [a] [1]).

In support of their motions for summary judgment, the defendants established prima facie their entitlement to judgment as a matter of law. The defendants demonstrated that the plaintiffs' injuries were not serious through the submission of the plaintiffs' deposition testimony and the affirmed reports of the orthopedist, neurologist, and radiologist who examined them and determined that there was no evidence of any injury sustained in the accident ( see Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345; Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957). In opposition to the motions, the plaintiffs failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether either of them sustained a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law ยง 5102 (d). The plaintiffs' medical expert improperly relied upon unsworn magnetic resonance imaging reports by another physician in arriving at his diagnosis and conclusions ( see Puerto v Omholt, 17 AD3d 650, 651 [2005]).