INSURANCE RATING BOARD v. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE


356 Mass. 184 (1969)

248 N.E.2d 500

INSURANCE RATING BOARD & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

June 6, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert P. Wilkins (George M. Hughes with him) for the Insurance Rating Board & others.

Allan G. Rodgers, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the Commissioner of Insurance.

Nathan S. Paven, for American Trial Lawyers Association — Massachusetts Chapter, Inc., amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: SPALDING, WHITTEMORE, CUTTER, SPIEGEL, & REARDON, JJ.


SPIEGEL, J.

These are proceedings brought by the Insurance Rating Board (board), the Mutual Insurance Rating Bureau (bureau) and several insurance companies to determine whether the Commissioner of Insurance (commissioner) had authority to "freeze" certain automobile insurance rates. One is a suit for declaratory relief. The other two proceedings are under G.L.c. 175, § 113B, and G.L.c. 175A, § 19. The proceedings...

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