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UNITED STATES v. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO

No. 71-1357.

478 F.2d 451 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott P. Crampton, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Julio Morales Sanchez, U. S. Atty., Meyer Rothwacks, William Massar, and Jane M. Edmisten, Attys., Tax Division, Department of Justice, were on brief, for appellant.

Ruth Tentori De Lebron-Velazquez, Asst. Sol. Gen. for Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and Jose L. Novas, San Juan, P. R., for Puerto Rico Automobile Accident Compensation Administration, with whom Gilberto Gierbolini Ortiz, Sol. Gen. of Puerto Rico, and Fernando Perez-Colon, San Juan, P. R., Counsel for Puerto Rico Automobile Accident Compensation Administration, were on joint brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Every person harmed in Puerto Rico as a consequence of maintaining or using a motor vehicle is entitled, regardless of fault, to receive hospital and medical care and to be paid scheduled benefits for dismemberment and other disability.1 If death ensues, the victim's family and kin are entitled to benefits. Up to stated limits, benefits take the place of what a victim might recover in a tort action against the...

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