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KAREN KAUDERER, respondent, v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY, ET AL., appellants.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the complaint is dismissed.

In support of their motion for summary judgment, the defendants submitted the affirmed medical reports of their examining physicians which demonstrated that the plaintiff's injuries were not serious within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) (see Licari v. Elliott, 57 N.Y.2d 230, 236; Partlow v. Meehan, 155 A.D.2d 647) . The opinions of the plaintiff's experts submitted in opposition to the motion were unsupported by any objective medical evidence, and, thus, were insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Toure v. Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 N.Y.2d 345; Nager v. Ghatan, 303 A.D.2d 727 [2d Dept, Mar. 31, 2003]; Scudera v. Mahbubur, 299 A.D.2d 535). Furthermore, the plaintiff failed to offer any evidence regarding the nature of her treatment or any explanation for the significant gap in treatment (see Francis v. Christopher, 302 A.D.2d 425; Ginty v. MacNamara, 300 A.D.2d 624; Delpilar v. Browne, 282 A.D.2d 647; Pierre v. Nanton, 279 A.D.2d 621).

Moreover, the plaintiff failed to demonstrate that she sustained a medically-determined injury or impairment of a non-permanent nature as a result of the accident which prevented her from performing all of the material acts which constituted her usual and customary daily activities for a period of not less than 90 days during the 180-day period immediately following the accident (see Insurance Law § 5102[d]; Gaddy v. Eyler, 79 N.Y.2d 955; Licari v. Elliott, supra; Rodney v. Solntseu, 302 A.D.2d 442; Crespo v. Kramer, 295 A.D.2d 467; Ocasio v. Henry, 276 A.D.2d 611; Greene v. Miranda, 272 A.D.2d 441, 442).

RITTER, J.P., FEUERSTEIN, McGINITY, TOWNES and COZIER, JJ., concur.

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KAUDERER v. NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTH
(Jun 9, 2003)