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DERRICK RODNEY, Appellant, v. MAKSIM SOLNTSEU, ET AL., respondents.

DECISION ORDER

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The defendants submitted the sworn medical reports of their medical experts which established, prima facie, that the plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) as a result of the subject accident (see Toure v. Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 N.Y.2d 345; McCauley v. Ross, 298 A.D.2d 506). In opposition, the plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact as to whether he sustained such an injury, since he failed to submit competent medical evidence in admissible form (see Grasso v. Angerami, 79 N.Y.2d 813; Fisher v. Williams, 289 A.D.2d 288; Slavin v. Associates Leasing, 273 A.D.2d 372; Young v. Ryan, 265 A.D.2d 547).

The plaintiff also failed to demonstrate that he was prevented from performing substantially all of the material acts which constituted his usual and customary daily activities for a period of not less than 90 days during the 180-day period immediately following the accident (see Licari v. Elliott, 57 N.Y.2d 230; Greene v. Miranda, 272 A.D.2d 441; Buonaiuto v. Shulberg, 254 A.D.2d 384; Ciaccio v. J R Home Improvements, 149 A.D.2d 558). In the absence of admissible objective evidence of injury, the plaintiff's self-serving affidavit was insufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see Paulino v. Xiaoyu Dai, 279 A.D.2d 619).

ALTMAN, J.P., SMITH, LUCIANO, ADAMS and COZIER, JJ., concur.

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RODNEY v. SOLNTSEU
(Feb 13, 2003)