Cheruvu v Healthnow N.Y., Inc., 2024 NY Slip Op 03285 [228 AD3d 1332]

June 14, 2024

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

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Sreekrishna Cheruvu, Appellant,

v

Healthnow New York, Inc., Doing Business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Western New York, et al., Respondents.

Zdarsky, Sawicki & Agostinelli LLP, Buffalo (Gerald T. Walsh of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant.

Webster Szanyi LLP, Buffalo (Michael P. McClaren of counsel), for defendants-respondents Healthnow New York, Inc., Doing Business as Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Western New York, and another.

Nixon Peabody LLP, Buffalo (Mark A. Molloy of counsel), for defendants-respondents Independent Health Association Inc. and another.

Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo (Joshua Feinstein of counsel), for defendant-respondent Excellus Health Plan, Inc., Doing Business as Univera.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Erie County (Timothy J. Walker, A.J.), entered January 19, 2023. The order granted the motions of defendants to dismiss the complaint.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Greenwood, Nowak and Keane, JJ..