Legal Question in Personal Injury in Pennsylvania

Re: Teenage Drivers

that depends. It is far too complicated a question to answer without knowing specifics. It is something that should be talked over with personal counsel and an insurance agent.

Re: Teenage Drivers

Parents are not automatically responsible for liability of their children. That's a persistent myth. Parents can be liable for negligent supervision. If parents let their minor child drive when they had reason to know he was unfit, incompetent, whatever, they might be liable. There's a lot of variables and I hope this is a hypothetical question. If so, the key thing, to me, is that any responsible parent would see that their child has adequate insurance, at least $300,000 to compensate those who might be injured (and themselves, with uninsured motorist coverage and full tort options).

A car owner can be liable for "negligent entrustment" if they let an unfit person drive their car, regardless of the family relationship or residence of the driver.