The estate of a man killed when he lost control of his motorcycle on a stretch of highway with no guardrails was awarded $5.42 million in Passaic County on Feb. 26—though the jury assigned some fault to the decedent, and a high-low agreement capped the recovery at $1 million.
The suit, Estate of Resto v. Highway Safety Systems Inc., alleged that Alexis Resto on April 20, 2011, was riding southbound on Route 21 in Passaic, where weeks earlier a state contractor, Highway Safety Systems Inc. of Hammonton, had removed old guardrails.
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