Virginia Insurance Rating Bureau v. Commonwealth

By the Acts of 1928, ch. 433, p. 1115,1 the General Assembly placed under the regulation and supervision of the State Corporation Commission, the rates, premium charges, schedules, rating methods, etc., of insurers authorized to write in this State insurance against “loss or damage by fire, windstorm, tornado, hail, lightning and automobile fire and theft and all other lands of insurance which fire insurance companies are authorized to write in this State,” with certain exceptions to be presently mentioned and considered. We shall refer to this as the “Fire Rating Act.”

Section 1 of the act…