2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 20 - DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES
Chapter 33 - Administration and Personal Representatives
3375 - Abatement of action for failure to take out letters.

     § 3375.  Abatement of action for failure to take out letters.
        If a plaintiff or petitioner in any action or proceeding now
     pending or hereafter brought dies and a personal representative
     is not appointed within one year after a suggestion of such
     death is filed in the action or proceeding, any defendant or
     respondent may petition the court to abate the action as to the
     cause of action of the decedent. Copies of the petition shall be
     served upon the executor named in the will, if known to the
     defendant, and otherwise upon all known next of kin entitled to
     letters of administration. The court shall abate the action as
     to the cause of action of the decedent if the delay in taking
     out letters is not reasonably explained.