Sanchez v Hanne

Holding The court affirmed summary judgment dismissing the plaintiff’s claims for serious injury because the defendants established that the plaintiff’s left knee injury was not causally related to the accident. The plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact as his medical records were uncertified and his expert report was unaffirmed, leaving the defendants’ radiologist’s findings of chronic degeneration unrefuted.

The court’s words

Defendants established prima facie that the appealing plaintiff's (plaintiff's) claimed left knee injury was not causally related to the subject accident

2026 NY Slip Op 06585, at the official text

Plaintiff failed to raise an issue of fact in opposition because the medical records he submitted were uncertified

2026 NY Slip Op 06585, at the official text

his orthopedist did not address any of defendants' radiologist's findings of degeneration and preexisting conditions on the MRI of plaintiff's left knee

2026 NY Slip Op 06585, at the official text