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WILLIAMS v. NATIONWIDE MUT. INS. CO.

750 A.2d 881 (2000)

Vance WILLIAMS, Susan Steier, Lori Anne Larell, Thaddaeus Peay, Paul McCaffrey, Carole Johnson, William Siegmund, Mark Culver, Stephen Mamuzich, Jr. and Karen Tar, on their own behalf and as representative of classes of similarly situated persons, Appellants, v. NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO., Allstate Insurance Co., State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., Erie Insurance Group, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Progressive Insurance Co., Pennsylvania Assigned Risk Plan, Appellees.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed April 12, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley B. Seigel, Huntingdon Valley, and Donald Yablon, Philadelphia, for Williams, Steier, and Larell, appellants.

Stewart J. Eisenberg, Philadelphia, for Peay, appellant.

Mark J. Levin, Philadelphia, for Allstate, appellee.

William C. Foster, Philadelphia, for Liberty Mut., appellee.

James C. Haggerty, Philadelphia, for Nationwide, appellee.

James T. Moughan, Plymouth Meeting, for State Farm, appellee.

Before McEWEN, President Judge, and JOHNSON and OLSZEWSKI, JJ.

JOHNSON, J.:

¶ 1 The representative parties in this class action suit assert that various automobile insurance carriers breached both a contractual duty and a duty of good faith and fair dealing by failing to tender promptly to their insureds alleged "undisputed amounts" in uninsured or underinsured motorist benefits (UM/UIM benefits). The trial court granted the insurers' preliminary objection in the nature of a demurrer for the insureds' failure to state cognizable...

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