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Monica C. JONES, appellant, v. AMIEE LYNN ACCESSORIES, et al., respondents.
In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Ruchelsman, J.), dated January 9, 2006, which denied her motions, in effect, for leave to reargue the defendants' motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the basis that she did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d).
ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed, without costs or disbursements, as no appeal lies from an order denying reargument.
The court properly treated the plaintiff's first motion, denominated as one for leave to renew and reargue, as a motion for leave to reargue because it was not based upon new facts which were unavailable at the time of the defendants' motion for summary judgment and the plaintiff did not offer a reasonable justification for the failure to present the allegedly new facts in opposition to the defendants' motion for summary judgment (see CPLR 2221[d], [e]; CPI Contr., Inc. v. Expert Elec. Inc., 36 A.D.3d 582, 827 N.Y.S.2d 661; Crawn v. Sayah, 31 A.D.3d 367, 819 N.Y.S.2d 61; Rivera v. Toruno, 19 A.D.3d 473, 474, 796 N.Y.S.2d 708). The court properly treated the plaintiff's second motion as, in effect, for leave to reargue the defendants' motion for summary judgment, since it sought essentially the same relief as the first motion. The court denied both motions. The plaintiff's appeal must be dismissed as the denial of reargument is not appealable (see CPI Contr., Inc. v. Expert Elec. Inc., supra; Crawn v. Sayah, supra; Rivera v. Toruno, supra ).
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Decided: March 13, 2007
Court: Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Department, New York.
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