Smaligo v. Fireman's Fund Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Jones,

Michael and Mary Smaligo, as personal representatives of their daughter’s estate, instituted arbitration proceedings to recover for the daughter’s death caused by a hit-and-run driver on March 27, 1967, at a time said daughter, aged 37, was on a home week-end visit from Mayview State Hospital where she had been a patient since 1962. Arbitration proceeded under the “Uninsured Motorist Clause” of Smaligos’ policy of insurance with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, which resulted in an award to Smaligos of only |243.00 (a figure which represented one-third of the cost…