IPhone 4s problems bought a stolen phone am I just screwed?

I bought a iPhone 4s that turned out to be stolen I contacted the original owner he had it removed from Verizon's stolen list but made a insurance claim so now the insurance company owns it is there anything I can do to activate it like use a r sim or flash it or unlock it anything at all willing to switch carriers to prepay or anything that will work.

Usually stolen phones have bad esn numbers so you can't use them on any service plan. There are ways to unlock the phones but that is illegal. If you said the owner removed it fron the stolen list then it should be okay to be used.

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