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CHRISTINE RHIND, Respondent, v. RICHARD D. NAYLOR, Appellant, et al., Defendants.

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

The medical reports submitted by the appellant, prepared by the plaintiff's treating physicians, establish that the plaintiff did not suffer a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102 (d) (see, Pagano v Kingsbury, 182 A.D.2d 268). Those reports show that the plaintiff suffered mild cervical and lumbar sprains. We find that these injuries are insignificant within the meaning of the statute (see, Serio v Radin, 168 A.D.2d 612; Konco v E.T.C. Leasing Corp., 160 A.D.2d 680; Delfino v Davey, 159 A.D.2d 604). The subjective quality of the plaintiff's pain does not fall within the objective verbal definition of serious injury as contemplated in the no-fault law (see, Konco v E.T.C. Leasing Corp., supra; Delfino v Davey, supra). In addition, the plaintiff has failed to present any evidence establishing that she was prevented from "performing substantially all of the material acts which constitute [her] usual and customary daily activities for not less than ninety days during the one hundred eighty days immediately following the occurrence" (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]). Thompson, J.P., Harwood, Balletta, Rosenblatt and Eiber, JJ., concur.

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RHIND v. NAYLOR
(Nov 9, 1992)