The Pennsylvania Superior Court issued a non-precedential opinion on February 13, 2018, in the case of Selective Insurance Company of South Carolina v. Dawn Koons-Gill, (Docket No. 163 MDA 210), which affirmed a 2016 decision by Trial Judge Terrence R. Nealon of the...
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Regular Use Exclusion Upheld Again by Eastern District Court
In the case of Reeves v. The Travelers Companies, No. 16-6448 (E.D. Pa. Oct. 30, 2017, Baylson, J.), the court again upheld an insurance carrier’s regular use exclusion and entered summary judgment in favor of the insurance company. Plaintiff worked for the Street...
UM/UIM Stacked Insurance Waiver Form Must Be Signed By Insured, But Can Be Dated By Someone Else
The Pennsylvania Superior Court in DeCrosta v. Erie Insurance Group, No. 2982 E.D.A. 2016 (Pa. Super. Oct. 18, 2017) issued a non-precedential decision affirming the entry of summary judgment in favor of Erie determining that the insured was not entitled to stacked...
Superior Court Upholds Unlisted Resident Driver Exclusion
In Safe Auto Insurance v. Oriental- Guillermo, 2017 Pa. Super. 297 (September 18, 2017), the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld an Unlisted Resident Driver Exclusion in an automobile policy issued by Safe Auto Insurance Company (“Safe Auto”) which excluded from...
Supreme Court Allows Blood Alcohol Evidence Without Independent Corroborating Evidence Of Intoxication
On September 28, 2017, in the Estate of Thomas Coughlin v. Massaquoi, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania declined to adopt a bright-line rule for the admissibility of a BAC based upon the existence of independent corroborating evidence. Instead, the Court held that the...