Pennsylvania General Insurance Co. v. Becton

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant from the judgment of the Superior Court granting the plaintiffs petition for declaratory judgment. The issues on appeal are whether the Superior Court had jurisdiction to hear the plaintiff insurer’s declaratory judgment action and whether the trial justice was clearly wrong in finding that the insurer was prejudiced by the untimely notice of the defendant’s claim. We affirm.

On June 21, 1976, defendant, Diane Becton, sustained personal injuries while a passenger in an automobile that collided with an automobile driven by an uninsured…