Legal Opinion

Freeze v. Donegal Mutual Insurance

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided December 30, 1983No. 38 and 39 M.D. Appeal Dockets 1982PublishedCited by 72 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.*

This is the latest in a parade of cases coming before us for interpretative review of the Pennsylvania No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act (No Fault Act).1 The single issue presented in this appeal is: Whether the Estate of a deceased victim is entitled to receive work loss benefits2 under the provisions of the No-fault Act. The Superior *221Court held that a deceased victim’s estate is entitled to work loss benefits.3 We agree and therefore affirm.

On January 14, 1977, John Goss Freeze, III, a minor child of eleven years of age, while riding a sled near his home in…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Allstate Insurance v. HeffnerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
  2. Freeze v. Donegal Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1982

3Cited by72 opinions

  1. Nye v. Erie Insurance ExchangeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
  2. Cambanis v. Nationwide InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1985
  3. Gabovitz v. State Automobile InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1987
  4. Hionis v. Concord TownshipCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 2009
  5. Barnum v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1993

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