Right Aid Med. Supply Corp. v Ameriprise Auto & Home, 2019 NY Slip Op 51270(U)(App. Term 2d Dept. 2019)
They are the best evidence of the no-show. New York considers them business records as well as being an affidavit. Yet, the practitioner who fails to properly utter certain things on the record will doom the no-show case.
“Contrary to the finding of the Civil Court, the transcript of the second EUO does not state that [*2]the EUO, which was scheduled to commence at 10 a.m., “was commenced” at 10:51 a.m. Rather it was at 10:51 a.m. that the attorney began putting his statement on the record, at which point he stated that he had been waiting approximately an hour for plaintiff to appear. As plaintiff failed to raise a triable issue of fact in opposition to defendant’s motion, defendant is entitled to summary judgment dismissing the complaint. “
