MVAIC v. EISENBERG


18 N.Y.2d 1 (1966)

Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation, Respondent, v. Theodore Eisenberg, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 9, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan W. Lubell for appellant.

Wilfred R. Caron and Mario Matthew Cuomo for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges FULD, VAN VOORHIS and BURKE concur with Judge KEATING; Judges SCILEPPI and BERGAN dissent in a memorandum.


KEATING, J.

When the Legislature, in 1958, enacted the Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation Law (L. 1958, ch. 759, eff. Jan. 1, 1959), it found as a fact that existing laws failed to secure adequate protection to innocent victims of motor vehicle accidents who, through no fault of their own, were involved in motor vehicle accidents caused by "(2) unidentified motor vehicles which leave the scene of...

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