Velazquez v. Water Taxi, Inc.

Because the majority fails to take account of the difference between plaintiff’s common-law cause of action against Water Taxi for the negligence of its own driver and plaintiff’s right against Water Taxi as a self-insurer answerable in compulsory arbitration for the negligence of the hit-and-run driver whose vehicle collided with the taxi in which plaintiff was a passenger, and improperly imposes upon plaintiff rather than Water Taxi the burden of establishing what the arbitrator in fact decided, I respectfully dissent. The thrust of the majority memorandum is that the taxi driver and the…