A Philadelphia judge, granting summary judgment in a coverage dispute, said this week that a U.S. Postal Service employee’s automobile insurance policy did not provide UIM benefits for an accident involving a mail truck driven by the policyholder while on the job.

Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson reasoned that when plaintiff Lamont Dixon was driving the postal vehicle involved in the accident, he could not obtain UIM coverage even though, as a vehicle repairman, he drove a different type of government-owned automobile almost every day.

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