| Staten Is. Advanced Surgical Supply v GEICO Ins. Co. |
| 2017 NY Slip Op 51898(U) [58 Misc 3d 143(A)] |
| Decided on December 22, 2017 |
| 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| This opinion is uncorrected and will not be published in the printed Official Reports. |
The Law Office of Printz & Goldstein (Lawrence J. Chanice, Esq.), for appellant. Law Offices of Emilia I. Rutigliano, P.C. (Emilia I. Rutigliano, Esq.), for respondent.
Appeal from a judgment of the Civil Court of the City of New York, Queens County (Cheree A. Buggs, J.), entered February 6, 2015. The judgment, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $1,670.30.
ORDERED that the judgment is reversed, with $30 costs, and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for a new trial.
In this action by a provider to recover assigned first-party no-fault benefits for medical supplies it had provided to its assignor, defendant appeals from a judgment of the Civil Court which, after a nonjury trial, awarded plaintiff the principal sum of $1,670.30.
For the reasons stated in Staten Is. Advanced Surgical Supply, as Assignee of Gu Zhang v GEICO Ins. Co. (___ Misc 3d ___, 2017 NY Slip Op _____ [appeal No. 2015-1734 Q C], decided herewith), the judgment is reversed and the matter is remitted to the Civil Court for a new trial.
PESCE, P.J., ALIOTTA and SOLOMON, JJ., concur.