Wilson v. Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Bd.

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

O’HERN, J.

This case, like Sotomayor v. Vasquez, 109 N.J. 258 (1988), also decided today, primarily concerns the availability of PIP coverage for the passenger in an uninsured vehicle. In this case a passenger riding in a private automobile was injured in a collision between that car and a school bus owned and operated by the Township of Moorestown. As we stated in Sotomayor, under the provisions of N.J.S.A. 39:6A-4 each private automobile is expected to provide coverage for its own passengers with respect to PIP expenses. Once again, however, we have…