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INSURER WAS ENTITLED TO A FRAMED ISSUE HEARING TO DETERMINE WHETHER A HIT-AND-RUN VEHICLE WAS INVOLVED IN THE ACCIDENT (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined the insurer (petitioner) was entitled to a framed issue hearing in this traffic accident case. The appellant was involved in a multi-vehicle accident but claimed he was cut off by a vehicle which left the scene. After a framed issue hearing was held to determine whether a hit-and-run vehicle was involved, appellant appealed arguing the insurer was not entitled to a framed issue hearing:

According to the appellant … , another vehicle, which he described as a “pick-up truck with a landscaping trailer attached,” initially struck his vehicle and then left the scene. Under a policy of insurance issued by the petitioner, the appellant demanded arbitration of his claim for uninsured motorist benefits for the injuries he allegedly sustained in the accident. The petitioner thereafter commenced this proceeding, inter alia, to permanently stay arbitration of the appellant’s claim. …

” The party seeking a stay of arbitration has the burden of showing the existence of sufficient evidentiary facts to establish a preliminary issue which would justify the stay'” …  “Thereafter, the burden shifts to the party opposing the stay to rebut the prima facie showing” … . “Where a triable issue of fact is raised, the Supreme Court, not the arbitrator, must determine it in a framed-issue hearing, and the appropriate procedure under such circumstances is to temporarily stay arbitration pending a determination of the issue” … . “Physical contact is a condition precedent to an arbitration based upon a hit-and-run accident involving an unidentified vehicle” … . ” The insured has the burden of establishing that the loss sustained was caused by an uninsured vehicle, namely, that physical contact occurred, that the identity of the owner and operator of the offending vehicle could not be ascertained, and that the insured’s efforts to ascertain such identity were reasonable'”… .

Here, the petitioner, by submitting the police accident report containing the appellant’s statement that his vehicle was cut off by an unknown vehicle with a red trailer, raised a triable issue of fact as to whether physical contact occurred between the appellant’s vehicle and the alleged unidentified hit-and-run vehicle … . Contrary to the appellant’s contention, the Supreme Court properly directed a framed-issue hearing to determine whether a hit-and-run vehicle was involved in the accident  … . Matter of Allstate Ins. Co. v Deleon, 2018 NY Slip Op 01915, Second Dept 3-21-18

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