As the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sees it, Pennsylvania public policy is not designed to reward heroics but to encourage common sense.

In Progressive Insurance Co. v. Gondi, a unanimous three-judge panel overturned a lower court’s ruling in favor of a Philadelphia man who was injured while trying to prevent the theft of his own vehicle after he left the keys in the ignition.

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