EX PARTE WEAVER

89-418.

570 So.2d 675 (1990)

Ex parte Mike WEAVER, as Commissioner of Insurance of the State of Alabama. (Re Martha H. SANDERSON, et al. v. BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD OF ALABAMA, et al.)

Supreme Court of Alabama.

October 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.E. Nix, Jr. and Alex L. Holtsford, Jr. of Nix & Holtsford, Montgomery, for petitioner.

J. Doyle Fuller, Montgomery, N.S. Hare, Monroeville, C. Knox McLaney III, Montgomery, Gareth A. Lindsey, Elba, and Don Siegelman, Atty. Gen., for respondents.

Lawrence B. Clark and Duncan B. Blair of Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, Birmingham, for respondent Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama.

Robert A. Huffaker of Rushton, Stakely, Johnston & Garrett, Montgomery, for amici curiae Tandy D. Little, James D. Martin, Robin Roland Rea, David P. Rumbarger, Lisa Walsh Shivers, James M. Sizemore, Jr., George Robinson Swift, Jr., Zack Thompson, Oscar DePriest Tucker and Thomas H. Wells.

Richard F. Allen of Capell, Howard, Knabe & Cobbs, Montgomery, for amici curiae John G. Allen, Director, Dept. of Indus. Relations, Joel Barfoot, Director, State Bd. of Pardons & Paroles, Fred O. Braswell III, Director, Alabama Dept. of Economic and Community Affairs, Bill Brock, Director, State Emergency Management Agency, John B. Dutton, Director, Alabama State Docks Dept., Jack A. Hammontree, Director, Alabama Development Office, Carol Herrmann, Com'r, Alabama Medicaid Agency, Andrew P. Hornsby, Jr., Director, Dept. of Human Resources, James Michael Horsley, Com'r, Dept. of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Royce G. King, Director, State Highway Dept., Ivan F. Smith, Adjutant Gen., and Morris Thigpen, Jr., Com'r, Dept. of Corrections.


SHORES, Justice.

The plaintiffs in the original case are subscribers for health care benefits with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Alabama ("Blue Cross"). They brought a class action seeking a declaratory judgment and an order directing refunds of excess reserves alleged to be held by Blue Cross. The plaintiffs claimed that Blue Cross had "accumulated an illegal and/or excessive profit and/or reserve and surplus in excess of the amount allowed by statute in Alabama...

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