JANSSEN v. RYDER TRUCK RENTAL, INC.


246 A.D.2d 364 (1998)

667 N.Y.S.2d 369

Royal Janssen, Respondent, v. Ryder Truck Rental, Inc., et al., Appellants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

January 13, 1998


Since Vehicle and Traffic Law § 388 is a loss-allocating rule, as to which the jurisdiction of the parties' domiciles has paramount interest (Schultz v Boy Scouts, 65 N.Y.2d 189, 197), and since the statute is consistent with the law of all of the parties' domiciles, the court properly concluded that New York law, rather than that of New Jersey, the locus of the accident, should govern. Application of section 388 would thus...

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