Jolley v. Nationwide Insurance

KLEIN, C.,J.,

Plaintiff filed a complaint in assumpsit demanding punitive and exemplary damages against defendant for its alleged willful bad faith and malicious and oppressive conduct toward plaintiff in delaying and denying benefits under the Pennsylvania No-fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act of July 19, 1974, P.L. 489, 40 P.S. §1009.101 et seq.

Defendant timely filed preliminary objections in the nature of a motion to strike the complaint on the *798grounds that the Pennsylvania No-fault Act provides the sole and exclusive remedy for unreasonable failure to pay no-fault benefits, i.e., imposition…