Legal Opinion
Perrelli v. Pastorelle
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 1, 2011No. A-22, September Term 2010PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Judge STERN
(temporarily assigned) delivered the opinion of the Court.
We granted leave to appeal to decide whether N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4.5(a) bars a person who was injured while a passenger in her own uninsured automobile from pursuing a personal injury action to recover economic and noneconomic damages for those injuries. We hold that it does and that the complaint must be dismissed.
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The following undisputed facts were developed in the defendants’ motion for summary judgment.
On August 24, 2006, plaintiff Denise Perrelli (plaintiff or Perrel-li) and Geovanni Velverde 1 were driving south on the…
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