Rodland v. Metropolitan Property & Liability Insurance

CIRILLO, President Judge,

dissenting.

I respectfully dissent. I believe that the legislature, by establishing a comprehensive statutory scheme to regulate the cancellation of automobile insurance policies, and by creating an insurance commission, intended to vest exclusive initial jurisdiction to determine the propriety of an insurance company’s cancellation of automobile insurance with the Insurance Commissioner. Therefore, contrary to the majority, it is my opinion that the trial court was without jurisdiction to determine whether Metropolitan properly cancelled Rodland’s insurance.

Act 78, 40…