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Fair Price Med. Supply Corp. v Progressive Cas. Ins. Co.
2007 NY Slip Op 50168(U) [14 Misc 3d 135(A)]
Decided on January 31, 2007
Appellate Term, Second Department
Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law ยง 431.
This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports.


Decided on January 31, 2007
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK

APPELLATE TERM: 2nd and 11th JUDICIAL DISTRICTS

PRESENT: : PESCE, P.J., RIOS and BELEN, JJ
2006-314 K C.

Fair Price Medical Supply Corp. a/a/o Vladimer Iremadze, Appellant,

against

Progressive Casualty Insurance Co., Respondent.


Appeal from an order of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Kings County (Peter Paul Sweeney, J.), entered October 13, 2005. The order denied plaintiff's motion for summary judgment.


Order affirmed without costs

In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits, plaintiff's motion for summary judgment was supported by an affirmation from plaintiff's counsel, an affidavit by a corporate officer of plaintiff, and various documents annexed thereto. The affidavit executed by plaintiff's corporate officer stated in a conclusory manner that the documents attached to plaintiff's motion papers were plaintiff's business records. After defendant opposed the motion, the court denied plaintiff's motion, holding that plaintiff's moving papers failed to establish a prima facie case. Plaintiff appeals from the denial of its motion for summary judgment.

Inasmuch as the affidavit submitted by plaintiff's corporate officer was insufficient to establish that said officer possessed personal knowledge of plaintiff's practices and procedures so as to lay a foundation for the admission, as business records, of the documents annexed to plaintiff's moving papers, plaintiff failed to make a prima facie showing of its entitlement to summary judgment (see Bath Med. Supply, Inc. v Deerbrook Ins. Co., Misc 3d , 2007 NY Slip Op [App Term, 2d & 11th Jud Dists]; Dan Med., P.C. v New York Cent. Mut. Fire Ins. Co., ___ Misc 3d ___, 2006 NY Slip Op 26483 [App Term, 2d & 11th Jud Dists]). Accordingly, plaintiff's motion for summary judgment was properly denied.

Pesce, P.J., Rios and Belen, JJ., concur.