A radiologist's detailed analysis of an MRI film is sufficient to show lack of causal relation

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Valentin v Pomilla
2009 NY Slip Op 00981 (1st Dept. 2009)

“Defendants established prima facie that plaintiff did not sustain a serious injury within the meaning of Insurance Law § 5102(d) by submitting a radiologist’s affirmed report that plaintiff’s MRI films revealed evidence of degenerative disc disease predating the accident and no evidence of post-traumatic injury to the disc structures (see Perez v Hilarion, 36 AD3d 536, 537 [2007]). In opposition, plaintiff failed to raise an inference that his injury was caused by the accident (see Diaz v Anasco, 38 AD3d 295 [2007]) by not refuting defendants’ evidence of a preexisting degenerative condition of the spine. Missing from all of plaintiff’s submissions is any mention of the congenital defect at the S1 vertebral level and degenerative condition of plaintiff’s lumbar spine reported by Dr. Eisenstadt or the preexisting degenerative changes in his right knee and degenerative meniscal tears in both posterior horns of both menisci reported by plaintiff’s own experts, Drs. Lubin and Rose, in their initial evaluation of plaintiff’s right knee shortly after the accident (see Pommells v Perez, 4 NY3d 566, 580 [2005]).

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