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Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 17:33B-43

  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
If an insurer, the New Jersey Automobile Full Insurance Underwriting Association, the trustee appointed pursuant to section 21 of this 1990 amendatory and supplementary act, the Market Transition Facility created pursuant to section 88 of this act or any insurer or other entity insuring risks under a plan providing private passenger automobile insurance pursuant to section 1 of P.L.1970, c.215 (C. 17:29D-1), offers a lump sum settlement of more than $10,000 to a claimant covered for bodily injury liability under a private passenger automobile liability insurance policy, the insurer, the association, the facility or the other entity may, at the same time, offer a structured settlement for that claim to the claimant or his attorney. If the claimant’s attorney receives an offer of structured settlement pursuant to this section, he shall present it to the claimant.

L.1990,c.8,s.52.