SEIBEL v. AETNA CASUALTY AND SURETY CO.

No. 653 S 1981.

43 Pa. D. & C. 3d 492 (1984)

Seibel v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company

Common Pleas Court of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania.

March 30, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard C. Angino, for plaintiffs.

John G. Harkins, Jr., Marjorie E. Greenfield, and Thomas B. Schmidt, III, for Aetna Casualty & Surety Company, Auto Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, General Accident Group, and Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co.

Bernard A. Ryan, Jr., Stephen A. Stack, Jr., Alan H. Silberman, and William T. Barker, for Allstate Insurance Company.

Craig A. Stone, Roger C. Simmons and Roxann E. Henry, for American States Insurance Company, Motorists Insurance Companies, Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, State Automobile Mutual Insurance Company, and United States Fidelity & Guaranty Company.

Patrick W. Kittredge, for Employers Insurance of Wausau.

James K. Thomas, for Commercial Union Assurance Company, Donegal Mutual Insurance Company, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Royal-Globe Insurance Company, Shelby Mutual Insurance Company, and Safeco Insurance Companies.

Robert E. Kelly, Jr, Henry T. Reath, for State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company.

Christopher Zettlemoyer, Daniel I. Booker, Anthony J. Basinski, and Robert F. Prorok, for Travelers Insurance Companies.

H. Lee Roussel, Rod J. Pera, Clyde W. McIntyre, and James Schratz, for Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies, Erie Insurance Exchange, and Home Insurance Company.

Alexander Kerr, Patricia H. Burrall, and Carl Anthony Maio, for Harleysville Mutual Insurance Company.

Joseph A. Tate, for Insurance Company of North America.

James R. Clippinger, for Statesman Group.

W.E. Shissler, and D.C. Eaton, for Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Company.

Joseph R. Thompson, for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.

Walter R. Milbourne, Joseph R. Davidson, and Edward E. Knauss, III, for Keystone Insurance Company and Maryland Casualty Company.

Steven A. Asher, for CNA Insurance Company, Ohio Casualty Insurance Company and General Accident Insurance, for defendant.


MORGAN, J., March 30, 1984.

In this class action, plaintiffs allege that defendant companies have wrongly denied work-loss benefits payable on behalf of decedents under policies issued pursuant to the Pennsylvania No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act. (Pa. Stat. Ann. Tit. 40 § 1009.101 et seq., Purdon's Supp. 1982). We are here considering defendants' preliminary objections.

The only claim asserted in the action is for common law restraint of trade...

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