Court Opinion

ID: 6263112
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-02-17 22:25:06.812298+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:59:45.100970
License: Public Domain

HUTCHINSON, Justice,
concurring and dissenting.
Without abandoning my view that Heffner v. Allstate, 491 Pa. 447, 421 A.2d 629 (1980) is wrongly decided, I join Mr. Justice Flaherty’s opinion in this case, which I read as limiting postmortem work loss actions to two years from the date each payment of lost wages would have been due, absent the loss, in an amount equal to the paychecks then due within that portion of the two year period remaining when the action is filed, up to a $15,000.00 maximum, or whatever portion of that $15,000.00 amount the plaintiff would sustain within four years of the accident.