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GLIELMI v. BANNER

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.
Oct 5, 1998
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Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The defendant's submissions made out a prima facie case that the plaintiff had not sustained a serious injury as defined by Insurance Law ยง 5102 (d). The affirmation of the plaintiff's treating physician was deficient insofar as it failed, inter alia, to indicate that the opinion expressed therein was based upon a recent medical examination ( see, Attanasio v. Lashley, 223 A.D.2d 614; Philpotts v. Petrovic, 160 A.D.2d 856; Covington v. Cinnirella, 146 A.D.2d 565).

The plaintiff's self-serving affidavit concerning his inability to perform his daily activities after the accident, without more, is insufficient to establish that he had sustained a medically-determined injury or impairment of a nonpermanent nature which prevented him 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, Yagliyan v. Gun Shik Yang, 241 A.D.2d 518; Cullum v. Washington, 227 A.D.2d 370; Atamian v. Mintz, 216 A.D.2d 430).

Miller, J. P., Thompson, Pizzuto, McGinity and Luciano, JJ., concur.