IN RE AMERICAN NETWORK INS. CO.

No. 58 MAP 2021 No. 59 MAP 2021 No. 7 MAP 2022 No. 8 MAP 2022.

284 A.3d 153 (2022)

IN RE: AMERICAN NETWORK INSURANCE COMPANY (in Liquidation). Appeal of: Mike Humphreys, Acting Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In re: Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company (in Liquidation). Appeal of: Mike Humphreys, Acting Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In re: American Network Insurance Company (in Liquidation). Appeal of: Mike Humphreys, Acting Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In re: Penn Treaty Network America Insurance Company (in Liquidation). Appeal of: Mike Humphreys, Acting Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

Decided: October 19, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald E. Arth, Esq. , Philadelphia, for Amicus Curiae National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Lance Scott Rogers, Esq. , Ardmore, for Amicus Curiae American Council of Life Insurers.

Michael John Broadbent, Esq. , Cozen & O'Connor, Philadelphia, James Reeves Potts, Esq. , Cozen & O'Connor, Preston M. Buckman, Esq. , PA Department of Insurance, Harrisburg, Leslie Miller Greenspan, Esq. , Carl E. Singley, Esq. , Tucker Law Group, LLC, Kathryn McDermott Speaks, Esq. , Pennsylvania Insurance Department, for Appellant Mike Humphreys, Acting Ins. Commissioner.

Douglas Y. Christian, Esq. , Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, L.L.P. Philadelphia, for Appellee Penn Treaty American Corporation.

Benjamin J. Cordiano, Esq. , Morgan Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., for Appellees United Healthcare Insurance Company, Anthem, Inc.

Jane Dall Wilson, Esq. , Caryn M. Glawe, Esq. , Dorothy Alicia Hickok , Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP, Brian Carson Pickard, Esq. , Faegre Baker Daniels, LLP, Philadelphia, for Appellee National Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Associations.

James Steven Gkonos, Esq. , Paul M. Hummer, Esq. , Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP, Philadelphia, for Appellee "Agents".

Harold S. Horwich, Esq. , for Appellee United Healthcare Insurance Company, Appellee Anthem, Inc.

John P. Lavelle Jr., Esq. , for Appellees United Healthcare Insurance Company, Anthem, Inc., "Health Insurers", Cigna Corporation, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, HM Life Insurance Company, QCC Insurance Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company, Horizon Healthcare Services, Inc., United Concordia Life and Health Insurance Company, United Concordia Insurance Company.

TODD, C.J., DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, BROBSON, JJ.


OPINION

In this declaratory judgment action brought in the context of two insurance-company liquidation matters, the parties assert they informally agreed, among themselves and the single Commonwealth Court Judge1 overseeing the cases, to a procedure for a three-judge panel...

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