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Financial Services Vehicle Trust v. Panter, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019).  This appeal actually involved four consolidated cases, all of them originating in the Small Claims Part of the Superior Court.  In each case, the plaintiff had been in an auto accident.  Each plaintiff sought compensation not only for the physical damage to his or her vehicle, but also for the alleged devaluation of the vehicle to the “stigma of having been in an accident,” even though the vehicles had been repaired to their pre-accident condition.  Defendants contended that such “stigma...