Briefs Address New Jersey Consumer Protection Law’s Application To Insured’s Release

(July 11, 2018, 9:13 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Allowing an insurer to prey upon consumers by hurrying them into signing releases when both parties are insured by the same company guts existing precedent and would drastically reduce the reach of New Jersey consumer-protection law, an insured tells the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in recent briefing.  But in response, the insurer and its employee tell the court that the insured is not a consumer under the law in question, and that her claims are preempted (Ana Lidia Alpizar-Fallas v. Frank E. Favero, et al., No. 17-3837, 3rd Cir.)....