A Pennsylvania man injured in a car accident in North Carolina may not submit evidence of his medical bills and wage losses during the trial of a UIM claim he filed against his insurer, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Lawrence F. Stengel for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, following a choice-of-law analysis between Pennsylvania and North Carolina’s substantive tort laws, said Pennsylvania law would control whether plaintiff Eric Reinert could introduce his medical expenses and wage losses to the jury in the UIM trial, after he had already received some of those first-party benefits under his Pennsylvania insurance policy with Nationwide Insurance Co.
