RIVERA v. ATL. COAST REHAB. CENTER


729 A.2d 42 (1999)

321 N.J. Super. 340

Eduardo RIVERA, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ATLANTIC COAST REHABILITATION AND HEALTH CARE CENTER, Katherine Onufrat, Sue Covington and Joel Willinger, Defendants-Respondents.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 26, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Garrick Slavick for plaintiff-appellant (King, Kitrick, Jackson & Troncone, Brick, attorneys; John J. Jackson, on the brief).

Saul D. Zabell (Frank & Breslow) of the New York bar, Bayport, NY, admitted pro hac vice, for defendants-respondents Atlantic Coast Rehabilitation and Health Care Center and Sue Covington (Jacobs & Associates, attorneys; Neil M. Frank, Farmingdale, NY, and Roger B. Jacobs, Newark, on the brief).

Before Judges PRESSLER and BROCHIN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by PRESSLER, P.J.A.D.

Plaintiff Eduardo Rivera appeals from an order of the Law Division denying his motion to reinstate his complaint against defendants Atlantic Coast Rehabilitation and Health Care Center (Atlantic Coast) and three of its employees, Sue Covington, Katherine Onufrat and Joel Willinger. We reverse. We are satisfied that the dismissal of the complaint pursuant to R. 1:13-7(a) was itself erroneous and that...

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