Court: 16-Year-Old Insurance Bad-Faith Case Shouldn't Have Been Dismissed for Inactivity
A three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed a Lehigh County judge's decision to enter a judgment of non pros.
May 16, 2019 at 11:06 AM
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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In a May 13 unpublished opinion in Wilson v. Erie Insurance Group, a three-judge panel of the appellate court reversed a Lehigh County judge's decision to enter a judgment of non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.
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