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Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 17 was added February 12, 1984, P.L.26, No.11....
Section 1701 - Short title of chapter - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
Section 1702 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this chapter...
Section 1703 - Application of chapter - This chapter does not apply with respect to any motor...
Section 1704 - Administration of chapter - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), the Department...
Section 1705 - Election of tort options - (a) Financial responsibility requirements.-- (1) Each insurer, not less than...
Section 1711 - Required benefits - (a) Medical benefit.--An insurer issuing or delivering liability insurance policies...
Section 1712 - Availability of benefits - An insurer issuing or delivering liability insurance policies covering any...
Section 1713 - Source of benefits - (a) General rule.--Except as provided in section 1714 (relating to...
Section 1714 - Ineligible claimants - An owner of a currently registered motor vehicle who does...
Section 1715 - Availability of adequate limits - (a) General rule.--An insurer shall make available for purchase first...
Section 1716 - Payment of benefits - Benefits are overdue if not paid within 30 days after...
Section 1717 - Stacking of benefits - First party benefits shall not be increased by stacking the...
Section 1718 - Exclusion from benefits - (a) General rule.--An insurer shall exclude from benefits any insured,...
Section 1719 - Coordination of benefits - (a) General rule.--Except for workers' compensation, a policy of insurance...
Section 1720 - Subrogation - In actions arising out of the maintenance or use of...
Section 1721 - Statute of limitations - (a) General rule.--If benefits have not been paid, an action...
Section 1722 - Preclusion of recovering required benefits - In any action for damages against a tortfeasor, or in...
Section 1723 - Reporting requirements - Beginning December 31, 1986, and each year thereafter, each insurance...
Section 1724 - Certain nonexcludable conditions - (a) General rule.--Insurance benefits may not be denied solely because...
Section 1725 - Rental vehicles - Every motor vehicle insurance policy shall contain a notice as...
Section 1731 - Availability, scope and amount of coverage - (a) Mandatory offering.--No motor vehicle liability insurance policy shall be...
Section 1732 - Limits of coverage (Repealed) - 1990 Repeal. Section 1732 was repealed February 7, 1990, P.L.11,...
Section 1733 - Priority of recovery - (a) General rule.--Where multiple policies apply, payment shall be made...
Section 1734 - Request for lower limits of coverage - A named insured may request in writing the issuance of...
Section 1735 - Coverages unaffected by workers' compensation benefits (Repealed) - 1993 Repeal. Section 1735 was repealed July 2, 1993, P.L.190,...
Section 1736 - Coverages in excess of required amounts - The coverages provided under this subchapter may be offered by...
Section 1737 - Workers' compensation benefits not a bar to uninsured and underinsured motorist benefits (Repealed) - 1993 Repeal. Section 1737 was repealed July 2, 1993, P.L.190,...
Section 1738 - Stacking of uninsured and underinsured benefits and option to waive - (a) Limit for each vehicle.--When more than one vehicle is...
Section 1741 - Establishment - The Insurance Department shall, after consultation with the insurers licensed...
Section 1742 - Scope of plan - The Assigned Risk Plan shall: (1) Include rules for the...
Section 1743 - Rates - All rates for the Assigned Risk Plan shall be subject...
Section 1744 - Termination of policies - Cancellation, refusal to renew and other termination of policies issued...
Section 1751 - Organization - Insurers providing financial responsibility as required by law shall organize...
Section 1752 - Eligible claimants - (a) General rule.--A person is eligible to recover benefits from...
Section 1753 - Benefits available - An eligible claimant may recover medical benefits, as described in...
Section 1754 - Additional coverage - An eligible claimant who has no other source of applicable...
Section 1755 - Coordination of benefits - (a) Workers' compensation.--All benefits (less reasonably incurred collection costs) that...
Section 1756 - Subrogation - The Assigned Claims Plan or its assignee is entitled to...
Section 1757 - Statute of limitations - (a) General rule.--An action by an eligible claimant to recover...
Section 1771 - Court reports on nonpayment of judgments - (a) General rule.--Whenever any person fails within 60 days to...
Section 1772 - Suspension for nonpayment of judgments - (a) General rule.--The department, upon receipt of a certified copy...
Section 1773 - Continuation of suspension until judgments paid and proof given - A person's operating privilege shall remain suspended and shall not...
Section 1774 - Payments sufficient to satisfy judgments - (a) General rule.--For the purpose of this chapter only, judgments...
Section 1775 - Installment payment of judgments - (a) Order authorizing installment payment.--A judgment debtor, upon due notice...
Section 1781 - Notice of sanction for not evidencing financial responsibility - An applicant for registration of a vehicle shall acknowledge on...
Section 1782 - Manner of providing proof of financial responsibility - (a) General rule.--Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by...
Section 1783 - Proof of financial responsibility before restoring operating privilege or registration - Whenever the department suspends or revokes the operating privilege of...
Section 1784 - Proof of financial responsibility following violation - A defendant who is convicted of a traffic offense, other...
Section 1785 - Proof of financial responsibility following accident - If the department determines that the owner of a motor...
Section 1786 - Required financial responsibility - (a) General rule.--Every motor vehicle of the type required to...
Section 1787 - Self-insurance - (a) General rule.--Self-insurance is effected by filing with the Department...
Section 1788 - Neighborhood electric vehicles - (a) Minimum coverage requirements.--A neighborhood electric vehicle that is registered...
Section 1791 - Notice of available benefits and limits - It shall be presumed that the insured has been advised...
Section 1791.1 - Disclosure of premium charges and tort options - (a) Invoice.--At the time of application for original coverage and...
Section 1791.2 - Motorcycle marshals - A motorcycle driver when operating a motorcycle to guide, usher...
Section 1792 - Availability of uninsured, underinsured, bodily injury liability and property damage coverages and mandatory deductibles - (a) Availability of coverages.--Except for policies issued under Subchapter D...
Section 1793 - Special provisions relating to premiums - (a) Limitation on premium increases.-- (1) An insurer shall not...
Section 1794 - Compulsory judicial arbitration jurisdiction - Beginning January 1, 1987, the monetary limit in 42 Pa.C.S....
Section 1795 - Insurance fraud reporting immunity - (a) General rule.--An insurance company, and any agent, servant or...
Section 1796 - Mental or physical examination of person - (a) General rule.--Whenever the mental or physical condition of a...
Section 1797 - Customary charges for treatment - (a) General rule.--A person or institution providing treatment, accommodations, products...
Section 1798 - Attorney fees and costs - (a) Basis for reasonable fee.--No attorney's fee for representing a...
Section 1798.1 - Extraordinary medical benefit rate - (a) Filing.--Each insurer issuing or delivering liability insurance policies as...
Section 1798.2 - Transition - (a) Savings provision.--Notwithstanding the repeal of Subchapter F (relating to...
Section 1798.3 - Unfunded liability report - By May 15, 1989, the Insurance Commissioner and the Budget...
Section 1798.4 - Catastrophic Loss Benefits Continuation Fund - (a) Creation.--The Catastrophic Loss Benefits Continuation Fund is hereby created...
Section 1799 - Restraint system - (a) General rule.--All insurance companies authorized to write private passenger...
Section 1799.1 - Antitheft devices - (a) General rule.--All insurance companies authorized to write private passenger...
Section 1799.2 - Driver improvement course discounts - (a) Motor vehicle driver improvement course.--All insurance companies authorized to...
Section 1799.3 - Limit on cancellations, refusals to renew, refusals to write, surcharges, rate penalties and point assignments - (a) Damage claims.--No insurer shall cancel or refuse to renew...
Section 1799.4 - Examination of vehicle repairs - Upon request of the insurer, an insurance adjuster shall be...
Section 1799.5 - Conduct of market study - (a) Duty of Insurance Department.--The Insurance Department may authorize a...
Section 1799.6 - Conduct of random field surveys - (a) Authority.--In furtherance of the purposes and goals of section...
Section 1799.7 - Rates - (a) Rate filing.--All insurers and the Assigned Risk Plan must...