Williams v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

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 underin-sured 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 causes of action under Pennsylvania law. We conclude that the insureds failed to establish that the insurers, prior to…