A widower filing both a wrongful-death and survival action is considered to be two claimants and is therefore owed two times the maximum allowable claim by the Pennsylvania Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association as a liquidator for an insolvent insurer, a Northampton County judge said.
In Hartzell v. Pennsylvania Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association, PICS Case No. 06-1810 (C.P. Northampton Dec. 7, 2006) Beltrami, J. (17 pages), Judge Anthony S. Beltrami ordered PPCIGA to pay Woodrow Hartzell its statutory maximum of $300,000 for the survival action on behalf of his deceased wife’s estate and another $300,000 maximum for Hartzell’s wrongful-death action.
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