Kresge v. Keystone Insurance

KELLY, Judge:

The issue presented in this appeal is whether 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1714 barred recovery of first party benefits, as a matter of law, by a party who claimed to no longer possess an inoperable, uninsured vehicle, which nonetheless remained registered in that party’s name in Pennsylvania at the time of the accident from which the benefits claim arose. We find that recovery was barred.

The relevant facts and procedural history are as follows. On January 10, 1987, Sandra Mae Kresge (“Kresge”) was seriously injured in an accident while riding as a passenger in an automobile insured by…