Waaland v. Weiss
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
To warrant vacatur of an order entered upon default, the movant must demonstrate that there was an excusable delay *436and a meritorious cause of action (see, CPLR 5015 [a] [1]; Fennell v Mason, 204 AD2d 599; Putney v Pearlman, 203 AD2d 333; Schiavetta v McKeon, 190 AD2d 724). In the present case, the appellants failed to sustain their burden of demonstrating a meritorious cause of action in that they failed to establish that the injured plaintiff sustained a "serious injury” in the subject accident (Insurance Law § 5102 [d]; see, Gaddy v Eyler, 79 NY2d 955, 956-957).
The record reveals that the…
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