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Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka

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  • Summary of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Key Issues of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Key Facts of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Decision of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Opinions
  • Opinions
  • Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fatricia Anne Williams, J), entered Janua...

Table of Contents

  • Summary of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Key Issues of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Key Facts of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Decision of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka
  • Opinions
  • Opinions
  • Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fatricia Anne Williams, J), entered Janua...

Summary of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka

The Supreme Court, Bronx County, granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, which was affirmed without costs. The plaintiff's treating physician's report failed to demonstrate a serious injury as it did not compare the plaintiff's range of motion to normal ranges, nor did it address the plaintiff's recovery over two years.

Key Issues of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka

  • Whether the plaintiff sustained a serious injury under Insurance Law § 5102 [d]
  • Adequacy of the plaintiff's medical evidence to demonstrate serious injury

Key Facts of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka

  • The plaintiff's physician's report lacked comparison to normal ranges of motion.
  • The plaintiff's recovery over two years was not addressed by the physician.

Decision of the case Angel Nicole Wells v. Dam S. Secka

Affirmed

Opinions

Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Fatricia Anne Williams, J), entered January 7, 2004, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

No issues of fact as to serious injury are raised by the report of plaintiffs treating physician (see Insurance Law § 5102 [d]; *241Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957 [1992]). Purporting to describe the seriousness of plaintiffs injuries shortly after the accident, the report merely indicates the numeric percentages of various ranges of motion in plaintiff’s spine and shoulder without any contrasting references to what would be considered the normal ranges of motion. Thus, the report fails to show a “loss of range of motion” (Toure v Avis Rent A Car Sys., 98 NY2d 345, 350 [2002] [emphasis added]). Nor does it provide any other “objective basis [that] compares the plaintiffs limitations to the normal function, purpose and use of the affected body organ, member, function or system” (id. [emphasis added]). In addition, plaintiffs physician fails to address the teenage plaintiffs apparent recovery during the almost two years that elapsed between his last examination of her and the examinations conducted by the defense experts (see Medina-Santiago v Nojovits, 5 AD3d 253 [2004]). Concur—Nardelli, J.P., Mazzarelli, Sullivan, Williams and Catterson, JJ.

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