Court Opinion

ID: 9729185
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 14:28:56.186498+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:55.943917
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KELLY, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. Appellant insurance company presented the arbitration panel with a plethora of documentation concerning their insurance contract with appellee’s employer. However, appellant could not or would not direct the arbitration panel to the complete parameters of coverage existing at the time of appellee’s accident. The arbitration panel, therefore, needed to construe segments of the evidence of coverage into a coherent whole; the policy fragments, as presented to the panel, constituted an ambiguity which the panel properly construed against appellant and in favor of appellee. D’Allessandro v. Durham Life Insurance Co., 503 Pa. 33, 467 A.2d 1303 (1983). Accordingly, I would affirm the order of the trial court.