Legal Opinion
Cruz v. Lise
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided December 11, 2014No. 13764 23327/13PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Lizbeth Gonzalez, J), entered on or about March 3, 2014, which denied plaintiffs motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, and the motion granted.
In support of her motion, plaintiff submitted an affidavit averring that she had stopped at an intersection when her car was hit in the rear by defendant’s vehicle. Since a “rear-end collision with a stopped or stopping vehicle establishes a prima facie case of negligence on the part of the driver of the rear vehicle,” this was sufficient to…
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