Heffner v. Allstate Insurance

CERCONE, President Judge:

The instant appeal arises from the lower court’s granting a motion for summary judgment in favor of the defendant Allstate Insurance Company. In granting the motion the lower court determined that Mrs. Heffner, whose husband was fatally injured when the automobile he was driving flipped over and collided with a utility pole, was entitled to recover from Allstate only the survivor’s loss benefit of $5,000 and the funeral expense benefits provided according to Pennsylvania’s No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, 40 P.S. § 1009.101 et seq. (Supp. 1978). Mrs. Heffner…