Prevish v. Northwest Medical Center—Oil City Campus

SAYLOR, Judge:

Has a survival action been timely commenced, when a writ of summons naming the decedent’s estate as plaintiff is filed before *195the statute of limitations has run and a complaint naming the executor of the estate as plaintiff is filed after the statute of limitations has run?

This is the fundamental issue presented by the appeal of PlamtiffAppellant, Thomas D. Prevish, executor of the estate of Judith A. Bills, from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Venango County sustaining the preliminary objections of Defendants/Appellees, Northwest Medical Center-Oil City Campus…