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'Maybe They Just Didn't Pay Attention': Pa. Justices Eye Defects in Inter-Policy Stacking Waiver
A lawyer for State Farm said the court needed to look at the intent of the legislature in promulgating the waiver form, noting that the purpose of the law is to lower insurance rates.
December 01, 2020 at 08:03 PM
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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday waded into the long-simmering question of whether the mandated form used to waive stacked auto insurance coverage properly puts a driver on notice that they are waiving coverage that could be stacked between two separate policies—a practice known as inter-policy stacking.
The issue, which came before the justices in Donovan v. State Farm, on a certified question posed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, comes in the wake of the justices' high-profile 2019 decision in Gallagher v. Geico, which, in a break from precedent, had ruled that household exclusions can't be used to bar stacking.
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