The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that, despite dragging on for more than a decade-and-a-half, a Lehigh County couple's bad-faith lawsuit against Erie Insurance Group and Erie Insurance Exchange should not have been tossed out for inactivity.

In a May 13 unpublished opinion in Wilson v. Erie Insurance Group, a three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed a Lehigh County judge's decision to enter a judgment of non pros.

The trial court had found that plaintiffs Benjamin and Kathleen Wilson had prejudiced the defendants with their “inexcusable delay” in prosecuting the case.