Wait-and-see approach backfires for PIP claimant

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Wait-and-see approach backfires for PIP claimant

An auto insurer should have been awarded summary disposition as a result of opposing counsel s questionable strategy of waiting until trial to submit documentary evidence in support of his client s claim, the Court of Appeals has ruled in an unpublished decision. In August 2001, plaintiff Norman Fuchs sustained an odontoid fracture of his C2 vertebra