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SIX YEAR STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS FOR FRAUD APPLIES TO A CONVERSION ACTION, ALTHOUGH THE FRAUD BEGAN IN 1998 PLAINTIFF COULD NOT HAVE BECOME AWARE OF IT UNTIL 2013, PLAINTIFF’S ACTION IS TIMELY (SECOND DEPT).

The Second Department determined plaintiff’s action for conversion and breach of a fiduciary duty was timely. Plaintiff was the beneficiary of a structured settlement with payments which were to begin in 1998 and continue for the rest of his life. Defendant, who was the custodian of the structured settlement while plaintiff was minor, did not inform the plaintiff of the settlement and used the funds for her own purposes. The Second Department held that conversion sounds in fraud. Therefore the six-year statute of limitations applied and the statute did not begin to run until plaintiff became aware of fraud in 2013:

Contrary to the defendant’s contentions, since the cause of action for conversion is based upon fraud, it is governed by the statute of limitations period for fraud set forth in CPLR 213(8) … . The limitations period for fraud under CPLR 213(8) also applies to the breach of fiduciary duty causes of action inasmuch as the allegations of fraud are essential to those claims … .

Pursuant to CPLR 213(8), “the time within which the action must be commenced shall be the greater of six years from the date the cause of action accrued or two years from the time the plaintiff or the person under whom the plaintiff claims discovered the fraud, or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it.” “A cause of action based upon fraud accrues, for statute of limitations purposes, at the time the plaintiff possesses knowledge of facts from which the fraud could have been discovered with reasonable diligence'” … .

Here, the plaintiff established that he could not, with reasonable diligence, have discovered the fraud until 2013, when he learned for the first time that he was the beneficiary of a structured settlement from which he was entitled to receive millions of dollars in monthly and periodic lump-sum payments. Monteleone v Monteleone, 2018 NY Slip Op 04317, Second Dept 6-13-18

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