ORDERED that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motions are denied, and the complaint is reinstated.
In support of their motions for summary judgment, the defendants submitted the affirmed medical reports of their examining physicians stating that magnetic resonance imagings of the plaintiff's cervical and lumbar spines taken within two months of the accident showed, inter alia, disc herniations at the C5-C6, C6-C7, and L4-L5 levels, and specifying the degrees of limitation in the range of motion in the plaintiff's cervical and lumbar spines. A disc herniation may constitute a serious injury within the meaning of the Insurance Law (see, Flanagan v. Hoeg, 212 A.D.2d 756, 757). The defendants failed to demonstrate through admissible evidence that the herniations were not related to the subject accident (see, Chaplin v. Taylor, 273 A.D.2d 188; Friedman v. U-Haul Truck Rental, 216 A.D.2d 266), or that they did not constitute a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law — 5102(d) (see, Mariaca-Olmos v. Mizrhy, 226 A.D.2d 437). Accordingly, the defendants failed to make out a prima facie case for judgment as a matter of law. Under these circumstances, we need not consider whether the plaintiff's papers were sufficient to raise a triable issue of fact (see, Boland v. Dig America, 277 A.D.2d 337).