Rule 1301 - Compulsory Arbitration - Scope(a) All civil actions which are subject to compulsory arbitration under the Judicial Code, in which the amount in controversy, exclusive of interest and costs, is Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars or less, shall be submitted to compulsory arbitration. Comment
Actions in ejectment, unless involving title to real property, are subject to compulsory arbitration.
(b) The amount in controversy shall be the largest amount claimed in any single count of the pleadings by any party.(c) The court, upon the written motion of any party, or upon its own motion, may require that a case for which a trial is demanded be first submitted to compulsory arbitration pursuant to these rules.Amended effective 1/1/2020; amended effective 7/1/2023.