"Because Section 1738(c) of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (MVFRL) was enacted with the aim of consumer protection, I conclude the statute requires a new stacking waiver whenever the amount of UIM coverage changes, regardless of whether that change is an increase or decrease in the amount of stacked coverage as a result of the addition or removal of a vehicle. Thus, I respectfully dissent," McCaffery said.
In upholding the dismissal of a lawsuit over underinsured motorist coverage filed by a man and a woman hit by a car while riding their motorcycle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit drew a clear line between two major Pennsylvania insurance law decisions.
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has affirmed a ruling transferring an insurance dispute over an auto accident from Philadelphia to Bucks County to avoid potentially inconsistent rulings because of a related matter in the latter court.
The parents of a woman killed in a car crash argued that, at the time of her death, their daughter driver's license still listed their address as her home address, and she gave her employer her parents' address as her home address as well.
The Court has upheld a ruling granting attorney fees to State Farm Insurance due to the insured's lawyer's "vexatious" conduct in conducting "frivolous appeals" in an insurance dispute.
Insurer sued over whether it should compensate a restaurant's business losses due to COVID-19 closures urges the Pennsylvania Supreme Court not to fast-track its review of the case.
Amid the coronavirus-induced shock waves that have rocked the cruise industry, a group of investors has sued Norwegian Cruise Line after news articles exposed the company's alleged practice of lying about the severity of the disease in order to keep bookings, which caused the cruise line's stock to tumble.
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