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MOREL v. CRIMALDI

256 A.D.2d 188 (1998)

683 N.Y.S.2d 22

RAMON MOREL et al., Respondents, v. PHILIP A. CRIMALDI et al., Defendants, and GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided December 22, 1998.

Defendant GEICO's insured suffered the theft of a black, 1986 Chevrolet station wagon in 1990. GEICO paid the claim and thereby acquired title to the missing vehicle. It next surfaced in 1993, in the possession of a scofflaw who forfeited the vehicle for sheriff's sale. (What the sheriff apparently failed to notice was that the vehicle now bore an altered VIN.) Plaintiff Ramon Morel purchased the vehicle at public auction in 1994, and registered and insured it under the altered...

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