Attorney General Opinion No. 6155
June 1983;
MTLA File No. 3224
STATUTORY INDEXING:
Allowable Expenses for Attendant Care [§3107(1)(a)]
TOPICAL INDEXING:
Legislative Purpose and Intent
CASE SUMMRY:
In this Opinion, Attorney General Frank J. Kelly ruled that under §3107(a), a spouse is entitled to recover benefits for the reasonable value of services performed for an injured spouse's care, recovery or rehabilitation, where but for the marital status, such benefits would be payable. Attorney General Kelly relied upon the previous opinion of the Court of Appeals in Visconti v DAIIE (item number 201) which held that such benefits would be payable under the Workers' Compensation Statute, and ruled that the No-Fault Act should be analogized to the Workers' Comp Act for purposes of interpreting similar sections. This is particularly so because the No-Fault Statute, and in particular §3107(a) "is part of remedial legislation to be broadly construed to effectuate coverage." This item unintentionally duplicated item number 656.