Travis v. Batchi
Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Edgar G. Walker, J), entered April 9, 2009, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint as to plaintiff-appellant (plaintiff) for lack of a serious injury, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
The examination records of plaintiffs own treating physician/ expert show that she had full strength and range of motion in the knee both a few weeks and a few months after the accident, after he performed a right knee anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, partial medial and lateral meniscectomy and chondroplasty. Absent some manner of explanation, the negative findings cannot be reconciled with the physician’s affirmation submitted in opposition to the motion prepared a few years after the accident, that plaintiff sustained a permanent injury to the knee as a result of the accident. Summary judgment in favor of defendants should be granted for this reason alone, at least with respect to the alleged knee injury (see Pou v E&S Wholesale Meats, Inc., 68 AD3d 446 [2009]). Also fatal to
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