Pennsylvania General Insurance v. Barr

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Pomeroy,

This appeal by the Pennsylvania General Insurance Company (General) is from a decree of the lower court dismissing appellant’s complaint in equity and sustaining appellee Emma S. Barr’s preliminary objection thereto. At issue is the availability of arbitration to resolve a dispute between the parties as to the amount of uninsured motorist coverage provided by certain policies issued by General to Norman Barr, deceased husband of appellee.

On November 10, 1967, Norman Barr, while on duty as a police officer of Haverford Township, was struck and killed by an…