Joyce v. Erie Insurance Exchange

OPINION BY

WECHT, J.:

Michael Joyce (“Appellant”) appeals from a January 23, 2012 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Erie County (“the trial court”). That order sustained preliminary objections filed by Appellee Erie Insurance Exchange (“Erie Insurance”) and by Appellee State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”) and dismissed Appellant’s complaint. We affirm.

The trial court summarized the case history as follows:

[Appellant] is a former judge of the Pennsylvania Superior Court. On August 10, 2001, [Appellant] was involved in an automobile accident in which the vehicle he…