KOHLASCH v. STAPLES (2009)

Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Carol R. Edmead, J.), entered November 5, 2007, which denied plaintiff's motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

Plaintiff alleges she was injured when suddenly struck by five falling rolls of bubble wrap as she pushed a shopping cart in defendant's store.   Her prediscovery motion was based solely on her own self-serving observations, without any statement as to the presence of witnesses or what might have caused the rolls to fall, and was thus insufficiently supported (see e.g. Uddin v. City of New York, 52 A.D.3d 422, 861 N.Y.S.2d 25 [2008];  McGlynn v. Palace Co., 262 A.D.2d 116, 691 N.Y.S.2d 514 [1999] ).