SIERRA LIFE INS. CO. v. WIGEN

Civ. No. 9606.

286 N.W.2d 296 (1979)

SIERRA LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, an Idaho Corporation, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. J. O. WIGEN, Commissioner of Insurance and State of North Dakota, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

November 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William S. Murray, Bismarck, and A. Bob Jordan (argued), Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff and appellant.

Lundberg, Conmy, Nodland, Rosenberg, Lucas & Schulz, Bismarck, and Allen I. Olson, Atty. Gen., Bismarck, for Byron Knutson, the current insurance commissioner, appropriately the defendant and appellee under Rule 25(d)(1), N.D.R.Civ.P., see also Rule 3(d), N.D.R.App.P.; argued by Irvin B. Nodland, as Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen.

Thomas O. Smith, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Insurance Commission, Bismarck, for North Dakota Ins. Dept., J. O. Wigen, former Commissioner of Insurance, at the administrative hearing.


ERICKSTAD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by Sierra Life Insurance Company from a judgment of the Burleigh County District Court, entered November 16, 1978, in which judgment the court affirmed the order of the North Dakota Commissioner of Insurance suspending Sierra's Certificate of Authority to do business in North Dakota "until such time as [Sierra] complies with the applicable provisions of North Dakota law which it was found to be in violation thereof; and...

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