Opinion

Heffner v. Allstate Insurance

  • 265 Pa. Super. 181
  • 401 A.2d 1160
  • 1979 Pa. Super. LEXIS 2063
Court
Superior Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Apr 12, 1979
Status
Published
Author
Voort
On the bench
Cercone, Voort, Jacobs, Hoffman, Cer-Cone, Price, Van Voort, Spaeth, Hester, Van Voort Spaeth
Cited by
101 cases

in support of its holding, the court stated that “the tendency has been that if we should err in ascertaining the intent of the legislature or the intendment of an insurance policy, we should err in favor of coverage for the insured”

How later courts described this case

  • in support of its holding, the court stated that “the tendency has been that if we should err in ascertaining the intent of the legislature or the intendment of an insurance policy, we should err in favor of coverage for the insured”
  • "In a wrongful death action ... [t]he persons entitled to recover such damages do not include the victim’s estate generally ...”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

*194 VAN der VOORT, Judge,

concurring:

I join the lead Opinion by President Judge CERCONE with the understanding on my part that we are not authorizing double recovery for the same items.

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