Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.
The Supreme Court properly dismissed the plaintiff's cause of action sounding in prima facie tort, as it alleged negligent treatment of the plaintiff but failed to allege that the defendant's sole motivation was "disinterested malevolence" (Burns Jackson Miller Summit & Spitzer v Lindner,
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