Legal Opinion
Budget Rent-A-Car System, Inc. v. Nicole Chappell Joseph Powell, III Nicole Chappell
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 5, 2005No. 04-1931PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
AMBRO, Circuit Judge.
We apply Pennsylvania’s choice-of-law rules to determine which state’s substantive law (New York’s, Michigan’s or Penn sylvania’s) governs the extent of vicarious liability of Budget Rent-a-Car System, Inc. (“Budget”), the owner of a vehicle involved in an accident that rendered Nicole Chappell (“Chappell”), a New York resident, permanently paralyzed. The accident occurred in Pennsylvania as Chap-pell and her boyfriend, Joseph Powell, III (“Powell”), a Michigan resident, were driving from New York to Michigan in a car Powell had rented from Budget in…
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