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Evidence of Headaches Did Not Raise an Issue of Fact Re: “Serious Injury”

The Fourth Department, over a substantial dissent, determined that the evidence of plaintiff’s headaches did not raise a question of fact about whether the headaches constituted “serious injury” within the meaning of Insurance Law 5102 (d):

…[W]e agree with defendant that the court erred in concluding that plaintiff raised an issue of fact based upon her complaints of headaches. Although plaintiff submitted excerpts from her deposition in which she testified that “basically every day I would have some type of headache,” it is well settled that “subjective complaints of pain or headaches are insufficient to establish serious injury’ ” … . Here, the record contains no objective basis for plaintiff’s headache complaints … . Moreover, plaintiff “offered no proof that [her] headaches in any way incapacitated [her] or interfered with [her] ability to work or engage in activities at home” … . Downie v McDonough, 2014 NY Slip Op 03048, 4th Dept 5-2-14

 

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