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NJ Supreme Court Holds Car Accident Victims are only Entitled to Contracted Policy Amounts

Posted On: August 31, 2015
Posted By: jalmeida

In Citizens United Reciprocal Exchange (CURE) v. Sabrina A. Perez et al., ______ N.J. _______ (2015), the Supreme Court of New Jersey confirmed an insurer’s liability for a third–party’s bodily injury claims when a policy is rescinded as a result of fraud. However, the Court held the insurer is only liable up to the contracted […]

Posted On: June 29, 2015
Posted By: jalmeida

In Townsend v. Pierre, 221 N.J. 36 (2015), in an unanimous decision authored by Justice Patterson, the New Jersey Supreme Court held experts must, “be able to identify the factual bases for their conclusions, explain their methodology, and demonstrate that both the factual bases and the methodology are reliable.” For a plaintiff, this means the […]

NJ Supreme Court Holds Car Accident Victims are only Entitled to Contracted Policy Amounts

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