State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Insurance Department

DISSENTING OPINION BY

Judge BROBSON.

This case is less about an agency’s interpretation of a statute and more about an interpretation of this Court’s precedent interpreting that statute. Because the Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner (Commissioner) and the majority misread and thus misapply this Court’s precedent, I respectfully dissent.

At issue in this case is the propriety of the decision by Petitioner State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (State Farm) not to renew (or to nonre-new) the automobile insurance policy of John B. Farley (Farley). Pennsylvania has long had a regulatory…