NEWMAN v. ISUZU MOTORS AMERICA


842 A.2d 255 (2004)

367 N.J. Super. 141

Paul J. NEWMAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ISUZU MOTORS AMERICA, INC., Isuzu Motors Limited, American Isuzu Motors Inc., Subaru-Isuzu Automotive, Inc., Rosalie Holmes, Maddalena Scrozzo, Joseph Scrozzo, Kim Murphy Holmes, Joe Warren, Annette Warren, Defendants, Daniel Dean, Defendant-Respondent.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided February 25, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, Morristown, attorneys for appellant (Lauren E. Handler of counsel, Ms. Handler and Mary-Alice Barrett on the brief).

Respondent has not filed a brief.

Before Judges A.A. RODRIGUEZ, LEFELT and PAYNE.


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

On September 21, 1998, Rosalie Holmes failed to stop at a stop sign and broadsided a 1994 Isuzu Rodeo occupied by Joseph Scrozzo, the driver, and Paul J. Newman, the front-seat passenger, causing the vehicle to turn over onto its roof. As a result of the accident, Newman suffered a fracture of his seventh thoracic vertebra, and is paralyzed from the level of the nipples on his chest, downward.

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