Court Opinion

ID: 9711841
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 04:40:23.626267+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:23:07.872237
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WIEAND, Judge,
dissenting:
I respectfully dissent. The order sustaining preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer to two of five counts of the complaint in this case is interlocutory. Therefore, under Praisner v. Stocker, 313 Pa.Super. 332, 459 A.2d 1255 (1983), the appeal should be quashed.
The five counts of the complaint filed in this case aver different theories for allowing recovery for a single harm. All counts rely upon the same facts; all seek recovery for an alleged failure to provide appellant with proper insurance coverage for his business. Whether recovery is sought on the basis of common law principles or rights created by statute, appellant seeks recovery because he did not have proper insurance coverage. When the trial court dismissed two of five counts of the complaint, it did not put appellant “out of court” on the underlying cause of action for damages on account of such improper coverage. It did nothing more than limit the theories (and perhaps the damages) under which appellant’s single cause of action would be given further consideration. Such a determination was comparable to a trial court’s rejection of some but not all theories for recovery advanced by plaintiff at trial; *442and like such a trial ruling, the order in this case is not immediately appealable.