Posts tagged underinsured motorist

• Pennsylvania Federal District Court Decides Important Underinsured Motorist Stacking Issue

  Scott Cooper | May 22, 2012 7:24 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In Glazer v. Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co., NO. 3:10-cv-1366 (M.D. Pa. May 17, 2012) Judge Caputo in the Middle District of Pennsylvania held last week that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court...

• Sackett Line Of Cases Followed To Award Stacking On 4 Car Policy In Uninsured Motorist Case

  Scott Cooper | March 01, 2012 2:28 PM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In Bumbarger v. Peerless Indemnity Insurance Company, No. 2010-1563-CD (Ammerman, J. Clearfield County Feb. 3, 2012) a trial court recently addressed a stacking issue involving the...

• Uninsured Motorist Can Now Recover All Economic Loss From Tortfeasor In Pennsylvania

  Scott Cooper | February 23, 2012 7:46 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Attached is a link to an important Pennsylvania Supreme Court Opinion from February 21, 2012 in Corbin v. Khosla dealing with the injured victim’s ability to recover medical bills...

• Ruling On Timeliness Of Motion To Dismiss In Underinsured Motorist Case

  Scott Cooper | February 14, 2012 3:39 PM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The memorandum opinion from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Purcell v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., NO. 11-7004 (E.D. Pa.) from February...

• State Farm Motion To Sever And Stay UIM/Bad Faith Combined Case Denied

  Scott Cooper | September 30, 2011 12:30 PM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  On September 29, 2011 the federal court in Craker v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., No. 11-0225 (W.D. Pa. Lancaster C.J.) denied State Farm's motion to sever and stay a case arising out of an...

• Injuries Sustained After Being Thrown "Off" Motorcycle Are Excluded Because Still "On" It

  Scott Cooper | September 14, 2011 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Motorcycle Accidents
  

  The Pennsylvania Superior Court opinion yesterday (September 13,2011) in Allstate Fire and Casualty Insurance Company v. Hymes reviewed the validity of the household exclusion in a case where...

• Newly Added Underinsured Motorist Exclusion May Not Be Valid

  Scott Cooper | August 29, 2011 10:55 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The trial court opinion and order in Oesterling v. Allstate Ins. Co., No. 11429 of 2008, C.A. (C.P.Lawrence June 28, 2011) denied Allstate's Motion to enforce an exclusion. This case involves a...

• Court Holds That Rejection Of UM/UIM Form Applies To Corporate Fleet Policies

  Scott Cooper | August 26, 2011 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Recently, a Court in the Middle District of Pennsylvania rendered an opinion in Douglas v. Discover, No. 3:08cv1607 (Munley J., M.D. Pa. Aug. 12, 2011) dealing with a corporate fleet policy and a...

• Underinsured Motorists Adjusters Keen to "Several" Liability in Pennsylvania

  Joe Chapman | August 12, 2011 8:29 AM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Pennsylvania's drastic changes to joint and several liability this summer are coming home to roost in ways the legislature never expected. I had a conversation with an adjuster on an auto case...

• New Waiver Required When Initial Rejection Of Stacking Form is Followed By Outright Rejection

  Scott Cooper | August 01, 2011 2:20 PM | 0 CommentsHarrisburg, PA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Zerr, No. 10-4199 (E.D. Pa. July 26, 2011) the District Court addressed the issue of whether a new rejection of stacking form is required when an insured who...