Allstate Insurance v. Heffner

How courts have described this case

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• Survivors of a deceased victim may recover \work loss\ benefits in excess of the Act's $15,000 limitation on traditional tort theory
• Survivors of a deceased victim may recover “work loss” benefits in excess of the Act’s $15,000 limitation on traditional tort theory
• “The definitions given by the legislature to the terms of a statute are controlling.”
• \The definitions given by the legislature to the terms of a statute are controlling.\
• “[Section 203 of the Act concerning Collateral Benefits permits victims to recover their medical expenses from Blue Cross and Blue Shield and then recover the same expenses a second time from the no-fault carrier.”
• \[S]ection 203 of the Act concerning Collateral Benefits permits victims to recover their medical expenses from Blue Cross and Blue Shield and then recover the same expenses a second time from the no-fault carrier.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).