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75 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 1714 (2026)

 Ineligible claimants.

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§ 1714.  Ineligible claimants.

An owner of a currently registered motor vehicle who does not have financial responsibility or an operator or occupant of a recreational vehicle not intended for highway use, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized pedalcycle or like type vehicle required to be registered under this title cannot recover first party benefits.

 

Cross References.  Section 1714 is referred to in section 1713 of this title.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 26 cases, 1988–2012 · leading case: Swords v. Harleysville Ins. Companies, 883 A.2d 562 (Pa. 2005).
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Swords v. Harleysville Ins. Companies, 883 A.2d 562 (Pa. 2005). · cites it 3× “Pennland filed an Answer and New Matter, arguing that Section 1714 of the MVFRL, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714, requires the owner of a vehicle registered with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to insure the vehicle as a condition precedent to obtaining first-party benefits…”
Windrim v. Nationwide Ins., 641 A.2d 1154 (Pa. 1994). · cites it 4× “75 Pa.C.S. § 1714. [4] Section 477b provides: It shall be unlawful for any insurance company .”
Holland v. Marcy, 883 A.2d 449 (Pa. 2005). · cites it 2× “See 75 Pa.C.S. §§ 1714 ("An owner of a currently registered motor vehicle who does not have financial responsibility .”
Lewis v. Erie Ins. Exch., 793 A.2d 143 (Pa. 2002). “, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714 (providing that “[a]n owner of a currently registered motor vehicle who does not have financial responsibility .”
Burstein v. Prudential Prop. & Cas. Ins., 742 A.2d 684 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1999). · cites it 2× “75 Pa.C.S. § 1714 (emphasis added). [10] At the time of the accident, plaintiff was living at his mother's residence.”
Henrich v. Harleysville Ins. Companies, 588 A.2d 50 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1991). · cites it 2× “Section 1714 provides: An owner of a currently registered motor vehicle who does not have financial responsibility or an operator of occupant of a recreational vehicle not intended for highway use, motorcycle, motor-driven cycle, motorized pedal-cycle or like type vehicle…”
Kafando v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins., 704 A.2d 675 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1998). · cites it 2× “JOHNSON, Judge: We are asked to determine whether Section 1714 of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714, bars recovery of first party benefits to a “covered person” who is injured while a passenger in an insured motor vehicle where that claim *676…”
L.S. v. David Eschbach, Jr., Inc., 874 A.2d 1150 (Pa. 2005). “2d 1122, 1123 (1993) (finding no fault with appellate court’s use of principle expressio unius est exelusio altenus in analyzing Section 1714 of the MVFRL, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714). As previously noted, the object of all statutory interpretation is to ascertain and effectuate the…”
Habbyshaw v. Commonwealth, Dep't of Transp., Bureau of Driver Licensing, 683 A.2d 1281 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1996). · cites it 2× “2d 1119 (1991), first of all, the Court addressed the definition of owner for purposes of Section 1714 of the MVFRL, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714, which precludes an owner of a vehicle who does not have financial responsibility from recovering first party benefits.”
Windrim v. Nationwide Mut. Ins., 602 A.2d 1356 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1992). · cites it 2× “75 Pa.Cons.Stat.Ann. § 1714 (Purdon Supp.”
Elder v. Nationwide Ins., 599 A.2d 996 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1991). “The issue presented in this appeal is whether 75 Pa.C.S. § 1714 bars recovery of first party benefits, as a matter of law, by a party who no longer owns a vehicle *293 which nonetheless remained registered in that party’s name in Pennsylvania at the time of an accident from…”
Green v. K & K Ins., 566 A.2d 622 (Pa. 1989). · cites it 2× “75 Pa.C.S. § 1714 (emphasis added). Pursuant to this section, an operator or occupant of a motorcycle cannot recover first party benefits.”
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