Alberts v. Pennsylvania Financial Responsibility Assigned Claims Plan

HERRON, J.,

This court denies plaintiff wife’s claim for motorist benefits suffered in a motor vehicle accident while driving her husband’s uninsured vehicle titled in his name because she is an “owner” of that vehicle.

BACKGROUND1

This case arises out of a motor vehicle accident which occurred on January 20, 1990, in Philadelphia. In the course of that accident, plaintiff Bridget Alberts, while operating an uninsured motor vehicle titled in her husband’s name, suffered injuries. Alberts filed a claim for uninsured motorists’ benefits which was subsequently denied by Constitution State Service…