JAMAICA WELLNESS MEDICAL v. HEREFORD INSURANCE COMPANY (2018)

ORDERED that the order is affirmed, with $25 costs.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff appeals from an order of the Civil Court which granted defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint on the ground that the insured vehicle had not been involved in the alleged accident on February 13, 2013, and denied plaintiff's cross motion for summary judgment.

In support of its motion, defendant submitted a transcript of the examination under oath (EUO) of its insured in which he testified that he had picked up three customers and had been driving them to their destination when they repeatedly asked him to give them money. After he declined to do so, he was pulled over by the police, who advised him that the passengers had reported that the vehicle had been in an accident with another vehicle which had fled from the scene. Defendant's insured testified that the vehicle had not been in an accident while the passengers had been in the car. The EUO testimony by defendant's insured was sufficient to demonstrate, prima facie, that “the alleged injury [did] not arise out of an insured incident” (Central Gen. Hosp. v. Chubb Group of Ins. Cos., 90 NY2d 195, 199 [1997]; see Andromeda Med. Care, P.C. v. NY Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., 26 Misc 3d 126[A], 2009 NY Slip Op. 52601[U] [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2009]; Midwood Med. Equip. & Supply, Inc. v. USAA Cas. Ins. Co., 25 Misc 3d 139[A], 2009 NY Slip Op. 52379[U] [App Term, 2d Dept, 2d, 11th & 13th Jud Dists 2009] ). Plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact in opposition to defendant's motion (see Zuckerman v. City of New York, 49 NY2d 557 [1980]).

Accordingly, the order is affirmed.

PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and ELLIOT, JJ., concur.