Legal Opinion
Caravaggio v. D'AGOSTINI
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided January 22, 2001PublishedCited by 79 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
LONG, J.
The discovery rule, incorporating as it does a notion of simple justice, has been anything but simple in application, as evidenced by the amount of litigation it has spawned. Decades after its enunciation, lawyers and judges are still grappling with its application. This is another such case.
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Plaintiff Patricia Caravaggio and her husband were seriously injured in a motorcycle accident on May 23, 1993. Mrs. Caravaggio’s specific injury was a segmental fracture of the femur, also called the thighbone. She was taken by ambulance to Morristown *241Memor…
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