Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Wickett

OPINION

NIGRO, Justice.

We granted allowance of appeal in order to consider whether the Superior Court erred in finding that the trial court’s orders sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of demurrers in actions brought pursuant to the Declaratory Judgment Act1 were not immediately appealable final orders pursuant to Pa.R.A.P. 341(b)(2). For the reasons that follow, we reverse.

*599The facts and somewhat convoluted procedural history underlying the instant appeal are as follows: On March 8, 1994, John Pesce, Walter Hollobaugh and Louis Pesce, employees of Pesce Metal Fabricating (PMF),…