Nassau County District Court August 9, 2001 (Liberty Queens Medical, P. C. v. Tri-State Consumer Insurance)

*836OPINION OF THE COURT

Kenneth L. Gartner, J.

The instant motion presents an issue which is both of first impression and of substantial significance to the no-fault insurance system.

This motion represents an attempt to expand beyond its already capacious bounds the much-litigated preclusion doctrine first enunciated by the Court of Appeals in Presbyterian Hosp. v Maryland Cas. Co.