Federal Judiciary

NO-FAULT FLAWS
By Mark Thompson
markthomp@yahoo.com
Posted 08-13-08

The Appellate Division’s Second Department keeps trying to reign in trial judges in Brooklyn in suits brought by plaintiffs trying to get past the threshold set by the Insurance Law and escape the confines of the no-fault compensation system. In keeping with a pattern that was even more starkly apparent last year, the Second Department has reversed nearly four times as many no-fault rulings in Brooklyn and Queens (42) than the First Department has reversed in Manhattan and the Bronx (11) so far this year. And Kings County trial judges continue to get reversed far more often – 29 times -- than their counterparts in Queens, who have picked up 13 reversals in the year to date.

Full post as published by Judicial Reports on August 13, 2008 (boomark / email).