Stallo v. Ins. Placement Facility of Pa.

WIEAND, Judge:

When the owner of a property in Lackawanna County purchased insurance under the Pennsylvania Fair Plan Act, 1 he caused his daughter to be listed as the named insured. In an action by father and daughter to recover indemnity for a fire loss, the insurer defended on the grounds that it had no contract with the father and that it was not required to pay the proceeds to the daughter because she had no insurable interest in the building and contents which had been destroyed by the fire. The claimants contended, however, that the broker who had placed the coverage had known fully the…