New Hampshire-Vermont Health Service v. Whaland

This is an appeal brought under RSA 541:6 whereby the plaintiff, New Hampshire-Vermont Health Service, agent in this State for certain foreign insurers, seeks to overturn the order of the commissioner of insurance requiring it to provide coverage for mental illnesses as required by RSA 419:5-a and RSA 420:5-a (Supp. 1977). The principal issues presented by this appeal are whether the State may regulate the contents of employee benefit plans and whether RSA 419:5-a and RSA 420:5-a (Supp. 1977) apply to such employee welfare benefit contracts executed and delivered outside the State but which…