Reliance Insurance Companies v. Festa

Opinion by

Jacobs, J.,

This is an appeal by Reliance Insurance Cos. [hereinafter Reliance] from an order granting a petition by Keystone Insurance Co. [hereinafter Keystone] to open a default judgment. The issues presented for our determi*63nation are whether the lower court abused its discretion in opening the judgment and whether the amount of the judgment was properly calculated.

In 1966 Pietro Festa was involved in an automobile accident with another driver, not a party to this action. Reliance, which was Festa’s insurance carrier, paid Festa $1,819.51 under the collision coverage of his…