State insurance regulators may require arbitration provisions in policies providing underinsured motorist coverage benefits, the Commonwealth Court has ruled in a case heard en banc.
The majority’s ruling, which empowers the state Insurance Commissioner to require that UIM policies include a provision requiring binding arbitration, extends the reasoning of a 16-year-old precedent that allowed the commissioner to do the same with regard to policies providing uninsured motorist coverage.
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