ATTORNEY GENERAL v. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE


370 Mass. 791 (1976)

353 N.E.2d 745

ATTORNEY GENERAL vs. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE (and four companion cases.).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 16, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Acheson H. Callaghan, Jr. (Jeffrey Swope with him) for the Massachusetts Automobile Rating and Accident Prevention Bureau & others.

Michael B. Meyer, Assistant Attorney General, for the Attorney General.

James K. Brown & Hans F. Loeser, Special Assistant Attorneys General, for the Commissioner of Insurance.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., REARDON, BRAUCHER, & KAPLAN, JJ.


KAPLAN, J.

These cases question the legality of industrywide automobile insurance rates for the policy year 1976 set by the Commissioner of Insurance (Commissioner) under G.L.c. 1975, § 113B.2 The Commissioner commenced hearings on the bodily-injury insurance coverages on September 2, 1975, and issued his decision establishing those rates on November 17, 1975. The Massachusetts Automobile Rating and Accident Prevention Bureau (Bureau...

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