HOLLOCK v. ERIE INS. EXCHANGE


903 A.2d 1185 (2006)

Jean A. HOLLOCK, Appellee v. ERIE INSURANCE EXCHANGE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided August 22, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Murphy McBride, William H. Lamb, James C. Sargent, Lamb McErlane, P.C., West Chester; Neil Coleman Schur, James Charles Schwartzman, Stevens & Lee, P.C., Philadelphia, Daniel B. Huyett, Stevens & Lee, P.C., Reading, George Thompson Bell, Harrisburg, for Erie Ins. Exchange, appellant.

James Michael Beck, Dechert, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Products Liability Advisory Council, Inc., appellant amicus curiae.

Richard Bruce Morrison, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, P.C., Bethlehem, for Pennsylvania Defense Inst., appellant amicus curiae.

Michael Patrick Bodosky, Patricia Hale Becker, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. appellant amicus curiae.

Brian Kyle Hanstein, James C. Haggerty, Swartz Campbell, P.C., Philadelphia, for Inc. Federation of Pennsylvania and Property & Cas. Insurers Assoc. of America, appellant amici curiae.

Christine S. Lezinski, John Joseph Warring, Timothy George Lenahan, Lenahan & Dempsey, P.C., Scranton, for Jean A. Hollock, appellee.

Arthur L. Bugay, Gelfand Berger, L.L.P., Philadelphia, for Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Ass'n, appellee amicus curiae.

John Norig Ellison, Timothy Patrick Law, Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C., Philadelphia, for United Policyholders, appellee amicus curiae.

BEFORE: CAPPY, C.J., and CASTILLE, NEWMAN, SAYLOR, EAKIN, BAER and BALDWIN, JJ.


ORDER

PER CURIAM.

The appeal is hereby dismissed as having been improvidently granted.

Chief Justice CAPPY files a dissenting statement in which Justice CASTILLE joins.

Chief Justice CAPPY dissenting.

As I do not agree that this case should be summarily dismissed without an opinion on the merits of the claims presented, I am compelled to dissent.

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