LENEX SERVICES INC v. AMERICAN TRANSIT INSURANCE COMPANY (2020)

ORDERED that the appeal is dismissed.

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, defendant moved for summary judgment dismissing the complaint. By order entered August 7, 2018, the Civil Court granted the branches of defendant's motion seeking summary judgment dismissing so much of the complaint as sought to recover upon claims for services rendered to Love Olatunjiojo, Cathy Gaymon, Delia Morales, Antoinette Affoon, and Oscar Collaguazo Salinas.

Plaintiff did not submit any papers in opposition to defendant's motion giving rise to the August 7, 2018 order (see CPLR 2219 [a]; Matter of Dondi, 63 NY2d 331, 339 [1984]), and the order does not recite the substance of plaintiff's arguments, if any, made at oral argument. In these circumstances, the order, insofar as appealed from, cannot be reviewed on direct appeal (see Benitez v. Olson, 29 AD3d 503 [2006]; Viggiani v. Grodotzke, 306 AD2d 273 [2003]; see also M & C Bros., Inc. v. Torum, 75 AD3d 869 [2010]; cf. Matter of 144 Stuyvesant, LLC v. Goncalves, 119 AD3d 695 [2014]). Plaintiff's remedy, if it be so advised, is to move in the Civil Court to vacate the order.

Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed.

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