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WIESE v. DEDHIA

911 A.2d 479 (2006)

188 N.J. 587

John WIESE and Elizabeth Wiese, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Jamir D. DEDHIA, Damyanti D. Dedhia and Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company, Defendants.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided December 13, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rudolph C. Westmoreland, argued the cause for appellants (Westmoreland Vesper & Quattrone, attorneys, West Atlantic City; Thomas J. Vesper, on the brief).

Justice LONG delivered the opinion of the Court.

The offer of judgment rule provides that, where, as here, a defendant does not accept a plaintiff's pre-trial settlement offer and the ultimate verdict in the plaintiff's favor exceeds 120% of the offer, counsel fees and other trial costs are recoverable by the plaintiff.1 R. 4:58. In this appeal, we have been asked to delimit the margins of that rule. In particular, we are faced...

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