Storti v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance

WIEAND, Judge:

Frederick R. Storti has appealed from a declaratory judgment construing in favor of the insurer a group disability policy of insurance issued by Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company. After careful review, we affirm.

The provisions of Pa.R.C.P. 1601(a) require that in an action for declaratory judgment “[t]he practice and procedure shall follow, as nearly as may be, the rules governing the Action in Equity.” This Court, in Hertz v. Hertz, 302 Pa.Super. 259, 448 A.2d 626 (1982), interpreted the rule to require “an adjudication in accordance with Pa.R.C.P. 1517, the filing of…