Kuney v. PMA Insurance

ROWLEY, Judge:

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court sustaining PMA Insurance Company’s (appellee’s) preliminary objections and dismissing appellant’s complaint. Although presented in his brief as two separate questions, appellant, George Kuney, raises only one issue in this appeal; i.e., whether an employee has an independent cause of action against his employer’s workmen’s compensation insurer if the insurer has engaged in conduct designed to frustrate the employee’s right to compensation under the Pennsylvania Workmen’s Compensation Act, 77 Pa.S.A. §§ 1 et seq. We hold that he…