MATTER OF GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY v. ESCOTO

2018-07338. Index No. 515011/17.

178 A.D.3d 1040 (2019)

2019 NY Slip Op 09265

In the Matter of Government Employees Insurance Company, Respondent, v. Felix Escoto, Respondent, and North Carolina Farm Bureau Insurance Group et al., Appellants.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided December 24, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mintzer Sarowitz Zeris Ledva Meyers, LLP, New York, NY ( Peter A. Frucchione of counsel), for appellants.

Gail S. Lauzon (Russo & Tambasco, Melville, NY [ Susan J. Mitola and Andrew Weber ], of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Austin, J.P., Barros, Connolly and Iannacci, JJ., concur.


Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

On December 28, 2016, Felix Escoto allegedly was injured in a motor vehicle accident when, while operating his vehicle, it was struck in the rear by another vehicle in Brooklyn. The other vehicle left the scene. However, Escoto took a photograph of a North Carolina-issued license plate which was on the vehicle purportedly involved in the accident. Escoto provided that license plate number to...

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