3-21-07 (A-17-06)
No rational fact-finder would find that plaintiff’s scar or
surgically implanted plate and screw constituted disfigurement
of scarring sufficiently “significant” to justify vaulting the
limitation on lawsuit threshold of New Jersey’s Automobile
Insurance Cost Reduction Act of 1998 (AICRA), thus overriding
AICRA’s exemption from liability.
