
    726 A.2d 260
    HERBERT BASHIR, PLAINTIFF-RESPONDENT, v. COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE, DESIGNATED DEFENDANT IN A HIT & RUN CASE, DEFENDANT-APPELLANT, AND JOHN DOE, SAID NAME BEING FICTITIOUS, RICHARD ROE, SAID NAME BEING FICTITIOUS, HARTFORD INSURANCE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, TWIN CITY FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, SONDHEIM & LOUGHLIN, INC., A CORPORATION OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, SPERO MARGEOTES DIAMOND COACH LIMO SERVICE, INC., A CORPORATION OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, ALPHA INSURANCE COMPANY, SAID NAME BEING FICTITIOUS, A CORPORATION OR BUSINESS ORGANIZATION, DEFENDANTS.
    Argued March 1, 1999
    Decided April 8, 1999.
    
      Michael F.J. Romano, argued the cause for appellant.
    
      Timothy L. Madden, argued the cause for respondent (Freeman & Bass, attorneys).
   PER CURIAM.

The judgment is affirmed, substantially for the reasons expressed in Judge Wecker’s opinion of the Appellate Division, reported at 313 N.J.Super. 1, 712 A.2d 670 (1998).

For affirmance — Chief Justice PORITZ and Justices HANDLER, POLLOCK, O’HERN, GARIBALDI, STEIN, and COLEMAN — 7.

Opposed — None.  