Tannenbaum v. Nationwide Insurance

I respectfully, but strenuously, dissent from the majority’s interpretation of 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1722 (“Section 1722”) of the Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (“MVFRL”). According to the majority opinion, an automobile insurer may reduce a disabled person’s income loss benefits under his underinsured motorist policy (“UIM”) by amounts he received under separate disability policies, even though he paid for such benefits entirely out of his own funds *608and through employer deductions from his wages. Such an interpretation, in my view, is contrary to our Court’s previous…