CIVIDANES v. CITY OF NEW YORK

6511.

95 A.D.3d 1 (2012)

940 N.Y.S.2d 619

2012 NY Slip Op 2179

KENDRA CIVIDANES, Respondent, v. CITY OF NEW YORK, Defendant, MANHATTAN AND BRONX SURFACE TRANSIT OPERATING AUTHORITY et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided March 22, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace D. Gossett , Brooklyn ( Lawrence A. Silver of counsel), for appellants.

Burns & Harris, New York City ( Blake G. Goldfarb and Judith F. Stempler of counsel), for respondent.

FRIEDMAN, J.P., SWEENY, ACOSTA and ABDUS-SALAAM, JJ., concur.


OPINION OF THE COURT

RENWICK, J.

In this action to recover damages for personal injuries, plaintiff alleges that she was injured when she stepped into a hole and fell after alighting from a bus owned and operated by defendants. The court below properly rejected defendants' allegations that the No-Fault Insurance Law, which would have required plaintiff to establish that she sustained a serious injury as a result...

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