DiVittore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

LIPSITT, J.,

“Like a good neighbor, State Farm is there,” proclaims the corporate *639motto of defendant, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company. In this case, however, State Farm is here in court contesting the claim for “attendant care,” brought on behalf of Holly DiVittore, plaintiff who sustained permanently damaging head trauma when she was hit by an automobile while jogging on the Capitol Campus of the Pennsylvania State University one evening in November of 1979. Following a non-jury trial in which a verdict was rendered for plaintiff, State Farm has moved for post-verdict relief.

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