Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, 1997

Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown

Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York · Decided November 19, 1997
244 A.D.2d 862; 668 N.Y.S.2d 121; 1997 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 12188
Bunk v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Utica-Watertown

Opinion of the Court

—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court properly denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment but erred in granting plaintiffs’ cross motion for summary judgment. “On a motion for summary judgment, the court should accept as true the evidence submitted by the opposing party and any evidence of the movant which favors the opposing party” (O’Sullivan v Presbyterian *863Hosp., 217 AD2d 98, 101). In granting plaintiffs’ cross motion, the court erroneously disregarded the opinion of defendant’s expert, which was supported by entries in the medical records of plaintiff Fay Bunk. Defendant thereby raised an issue of fact precluding summary judgment (see, Zuckerman v City of New York, 49 NY2d 557). Therefore, we modify the order by denying plaintiffs’ cross motion. (Appeal from Order of Supreme Court, Oneida County, Buckley, J.—Summary Judgment.) Present— Denman, P. J., Hayes, Callahan, Doerr and Boehm, JJ.

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