Re: Auto Accident Upstate New York Other Driver 100% at Fault
as you stated, that was an assumption based on your experience. I don’t think it’s a dependable assumption. I see no reason a leasing company would require a lessee to carry anything regarding the state required coverage. They want to see collision and comprehensive and possibly underinsured motorist coverage. Coverage protecting their interest.
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Doesn't surprise me that a leasing company would require higher liability limits than the state minimum. NY holds the owner of a vehicle liable for the negligence of the driver. It's entirely possible that the leasing company could be named in a negligence lawsuit.
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Doesn't surprise me that a leasing company would require higher liability limits than the state minimum. NY holds the owner of a vehicle liable for the negligence of the driver. It's entirely possible that the leasing company could be named in a negligence lawsuit.
The graves amendment, enacted in 2005, removed vicarious liability of a lessor of vehicles
https://www.nysba.org/Sections/Torts...ision_pdf.html
Graves Amendment: Federal Preemption of VTL § 388
Although cases have been, and presumably continue to be, brought premised on a vicarious liability theory pursuant to VTL § 388, the application of VTL § 388 to lessors-defendants has been preempted by federal law. The Graves Amendment declares that leasing companies shall not be held vicariously liable under any State law for damages sustained in a motor vehicle accident and, in effect, preempts New York State Vehicle and Traffic Law (VTL) § 388 which expressly provides that leasing companies, as owners, are vicariously liable for the negligence of a driver.
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This is a serious question: How could any law force a jury to rule contrary to the way they want to rule? Will the Judge make the ruling for them? I don't think so.
All that matters is how good your attorney is. Laws appear to hold little weight in a trial. The more persuasive lawyer will win regardless of laws.
IMO, those that think laws will determine the outcome of a case haven't experienced the unpredictability of a jury.
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This is a serious question: How could any law force a jury to rule contrary to the way they want to rule? Will the Judge make the ruling for them? I don't think so.
All that matters is how good your attorney is. Laws appear to hold little weight in a trial. The more persuasive lawyer will win regardless of laws.
IMO, those that think laws will determine the outcome of a case haven't experienced the unpredictability of a jury.
Look up; directed verdict
of course it’s more likely the lessor will be released before the trial even begins when their attorney moves for a dismasal of their client base on the law I cited.
if for some reason the judge and the jury both err, the lessor would appeal and have the decision overturned.
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IMO, those that think laws will determine the outcome of a case haven't experienced the unpredictability of a jury.
That's true to some extent. I've seen first hand what a jury can do for a sympathetic plaintiff when it should have ruled otherwise.
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That's true to some extent. I've seen first hand what a jury can do for a sympathetic plaintiff when it should have ruled otherwise.
Were you the defendant or did you just see it? It makes a big difference as to how real this is.
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This is a serious question: How could any law force a jury to rule contrary to the way they want to rule? Will the Judge make the ruling for them? I don't think so.
All that matters is how good your attorney is. Laws appear to hold little weight in a trial. The more persuasive lawyer will win regardless of laws.
IMO, those that think laws will determine the outcome of a case haven't experienced the unpredictability of a jury.
With such a law in place, the case would never be heard by a jury.
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With such a law in place, the case would never be heard by a jury.
Who exactly would stop the lawsuit from being filed and tried?
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Who exactly would stop the lawsuit from being filed and tried?
The lessors attorney who would move to dismiss their client from the suit based on the law clearly stating the lessor cannot be held liable simply due to the ownership issue.