Allstate New Jersey Ins. Co. v. Gregorio Lajara (073511)

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that, even in the context of IFPA claims involving PIP recovery disputes, the state constitutional right to a jury trial nevertheless applies
• defining elements of fraud as a knowingly false, material misrepresentation made with the intention that another rely upon it, reasonable reliance and resulting damages
• finding, in the context of IFPA claims involving PIP-recovery disputes, that the state constitutional right to a jury nevertheless applied
• defining fraud under New Jersey law as “(1) a material misrepresentation of a presently existing or past fact; (2) knowledge or belief by the defendant of its falsity; (3) an intention that the other person rely on it; (4) reasonable reliance thereon by the other person; and (5
• ‘‘[t]reble damages are intended to punish, and only partly to compensate, and therefore have the classic features of punitive dam- ages’’
• “Perfect alignment between the elements of an IFPA claim and common-law fraud is not necessary to trigger the right to a jury trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).