HACKENBERG v. TRANSP. AUTHORITY


526 Pa. 358 (1991)

586 A.2d 879

James HACKENBERG, Appellee, v. SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY, Appellee, and Pennsylvania Financial Responsibility Assigned Claims Plan, and Travelers Insurance Company, Appellants. Louise Ann DYLL and Robert A. Dyll, her husband, Appellants, v. The BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF PENNSYLVANIA, and Nationwide Insurance Company, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided February 1, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Richard Feldman, Irving M. Portnoy, Mark S. Gervelis, Pittsburgh, for appellants.

Bruce G. Cassidy, Philadelphia, for Hackenberg.

Joan A. Zubras, Delores R. Lanier, Thomas A. Leonard, John N. Ellison, Paul S. Diamond, Thomas J. Foley, III, Philadelphia, for SEPTA.

Alan C. Ostrow, Philadelphia, for amicus — City of Philadelphia.

Richard B. Tucker, III, Pittsburgh, for amicus — Bell of Pa.

Gabriel L.I. Bevilacqua, Leslie P. Hitchings, Philadelphia, for amicus — Pa. Turnpike Com'n.

James C. Haggerty, Cynthia E. Covie, Philadelphia, for amicus — P.D.I.

Richard B. Tucker, III, Matthew J. Carl, Pittsburgh, for appellees.

Before NIX, C.J., and LARSEN, FLAHERTY, McDERMOTT, ZAPPALA, PAPADAKOS and CAPPY, JJ.


OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Justice.

These consolidated appeals present the question of whether the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law (hereinafter, MVFRL), 75 Pa.C.S. § 1701 et seq.,1 or the Workmen's Compensation Act, 77 Pa.C.S. § 481(a), prevails where an employee is injured in a work-related automobile accident and seeks to recover both workers' compensation benefits and uninsured motorist benefits from...

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