Duffy v. Amica Mutual Insurance Co.

This appeal presents the principal question whether summary judgment was appropriately allowed against a health care provider which, though having failed to coordinate benefits between the insured’s auto insurer and the insured’s health insurer, claimed entitlement to unpaid personal injury protection (PIP) benefits under the compulsory motor vehicle liability insurance scheme contained in G. L. c. 90, §§ 34A-34Q.

The plaintiff, John Duffy, D.C., a corporation providing chiropractic services (we refer to the corporation and the individual as Duffy), 2 appeals from a decision and order of the…