It has been a long-standing goal of the theoretical chemical community to be able to accurately predict vertical electronic excitations, which have applications to a variety of photochemical and biochemical problems. Multiconfiguration pair-density functional theory (MC-PDFT) is a multireference electron correlation method which, starting from a qualitatively accurate multiconfigurational wave function (such as a state-average complete active space SCF (SA-CASSCF) wave function), computes a corrected energy through a nonvariational energy expression which is a functional of the electron density (ρ) and on-top pair density (Π). However, MC-PDFT is a single-state method since the final energies do not come from the diagonalization of a model-space Hamiltonian, but rather from a nonlinear functional of ρ and Π. This has been shown to lead to potential energy curves unphysically crossing near conical intersections and locally avoided crossings. Both conical intersections and locally avoided crossings are frequently encountered when modeling photochemistry and photodynamics, and they are characterized by regions of strong interaction between states of the same spin symmetry.