INSURANCE COMM'R v. NAT'L BUREAU OF CASUALTY UNDERWRITERS

[No. 600, September Term, 1966.] [No. 639, September Term, 1966.]

248 Md. 292 (1967)

236 A.2d 282

STATE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER v. NATIONAL BUREAU OF CASUALTY UNDERWRITERS, ET AL. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY v. STATE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER OF MARYLAND, ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 13, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lewis A. Noonberg, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, on the brief, for Insurance Commissioner.

James J. Doyle, Jr., with whom were Sherbow, Shea & Doyle, Russell H. Matthias and Meyers & Matthias on the brief, for State Farm Mutual.

Submitted on the brief by Norman P. Ramsey, Thomas Waxter, Jr., and John N. Reid for National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters.

George W. Shadoan, City Attorney and Roger W. Titus, Assistant City Attorney, for The Mayor and Council of Rockville, Md., part of appellees.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and HORNEY, MARBURY, BARNES and McWILLIAMS, JJ.


HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court. BARNES, J., dissents. Dissenting opinion at page 310, infra.

By Ch. 553 of the Laws of 1963 the legislature repealed Art. 48A of the Code, titled "Insurance," and enacted in lieu thereof a new Art. 48A, titled "Insurance Code," to comprehensively govern and control insurers and the insurance business in Maryland. Rates were to be regulated so that they were...

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