Daniels v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

SPAETH, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order granting summary judgment. The principal issue is whether the lower court was correct in holding that a minor child should as a matter of law be considered dependent on his father and therefore entitled to survivor’s loss benefits under the Pennsylvania No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act. 1 A second issue is whether we should remand to permit a claim to be made for work loss benefits under our decision in Heffner v. Allstate Insurance Company, 265 Pa.Super. 181, 401 A.2d 1160 (1979). 2

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On April 30, 1977, Robert Daniels was killed in a motor…