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• Victim’s Failure to Use Seat Belts Irrelevant to Driver’s Liability in New Jersey

  • Posted On: July 22, 2013
  • By: Robert A. Olkowitz

  New Jersey has historically left a question mark in car accident liability cases, one that pertains to “intervening cause.” This speaks to cases where a reckless driver was clearly responsible for an accident, but when something else — a passenger failing to wear a seat belt, for example — could be blamed for increasing property… Read More »

  • Posted in Automobile Accidents
  • Tagged accident liability, driver negligence, intervening cause, seat belt law
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