# Alston v. St. Paul Ins. Companies

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · December 8, 1989 · 389 Pa. Super. 396

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9650556

## Case

- **Full name:** Calvin ALSTON and Dorothy Alston, His Wife, Appellants, v. ST. PAUL INSURANCE COMPANIES, John T. Williams, M.D. and Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Inc. and Janet H. Rohrer
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** December 8, 1989
- **Citations:** 389 Pa. Super. 396; 567 A.2d 663; 1989 Pa. Super. LEXIS 3594
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Johnson
- **Judges:** Cirillo, President Judge, and Brosky, Rowley, McEwen
- **Cited by:** 13 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

JOHNSON, Judge,
dissenting.
For the reasons set forth in my Dissenting Opinion in Rosipal v. Montgomery Ward, 360 Pa.Super. 570 , 521 A.2d 49 (1987), and because I continue to believe that Kuney v. PMA Insurance Company, 379 Pa.Super. 598 , 550 A.2d 1009 (1989) (pet. for alloc, filed at 241 E.D. Allocatur Docket 1989, 3-13-89) is a correct statement of the law, I must dissent.
I cannot believe that our legislature intended the use of the word “injury” in the Workers’ Compensation Act to encompass intentional fraudulent acts of insurance companies and their employes designed to deny benefits due Pennsylvania workers.. Cf., Reed v. Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co., 367 F.Supp. 134 (E.D.Pa.1973).
MELINSON, J., joins.

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