Murphy v. Harleysville Mutual Insurance

PRICE, Judge:

The instant appeal is from the order by the trial court sustaining appellee’s preliminary objections to appellant’s complaint in assumpsit. Finding no error, we affirm.

On June 20, 1979, appellant, an attorney, brought a class action suit on behalf of himself and all other parties similarly situated alleging discrimination in the setting of automobile insurance rates by appellee and all other providers of automobile insurance in the Commonwealth. In his capacity as the named plaintiff, appellant purported to represent three groups of residents of the Commonwealth that had…