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BATTISTA v. WESTERN WORLD INS. CO.

227 N.J. Super. 135 (1988)

545 A.2d 841

KATHERINE BATTISTA, AS ADMINISTRATRIX AD PROSEQUENDUM OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM NICHOLAS BATTISTA III, DECEASED AND INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ASSIGNEE OF PAUL OLSON, PLAINTIFF, v. WESTERN WORLD INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., THE AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY COMPANY, INC., LIEB, BERLIN AND KAPLAN, A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION, AND THE BOROUGH OF LEONIA, DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division Bergen County.

Decided February 3, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leopold A. Monaco for plaintiff (Monaco and Oratio, attorneys).

Bruce A. Tritsch for defendant, Western World Insurance Company, Inc. (Feinberg, Feinberg and Tritsch, attorneys).

Michael B. Oropollo for defendant, The Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Inc. (Hoagland, Longo, Oropollo and Moran, attorneys).

William W. Voorhees, Jr., for defendant, Lieb, Berlin and Kaplan (Voorhees and Stein, attorneys).

John G. Tinker, Jr., for defendant, The Borough of Leonia (W. Stephen Leary, attorney).

MARGUERITE T. SIMON, J.S.C.

Plaintiff in this matter seeks to enforce a settlement admittedly tailored as an attempt to meet the requirements of Griggs v. Bertram, 88 N.J. 347 (1982).

BACKGROUND

The underlying litigation resulted from the tragic death of eighteen-year-old William N. Battista, III, on January 12, 1982. His mother, Katherine Battista, brought an...

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