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Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that claimant’s dram shop claim arose out of maintenance or use of a motor vehicle; therefore, employer was precluded from subrogating its payment of Heart and Lung Act benefits against claimant’s settlement of the claim.

In this case, the claimant, a police officer, sustained multiple injuries when his patrol car was struck by an intoxicated driver’s vehicle. The employer accepted liability for the injuries. What’s Hot in Workers’ Comp, Vol. 27, No.