Country-Wide Insurance v. Harnett

OPINION

GOETTEL, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a New York insurance company issuing automobile accident insurance, seeks to have declared unconstitutional two portions of New York’s “No-Fault” Insurance Law.1 Plaintiff attacks the provision permitting compulsory binding arbitration of certain disputes at the demand of any claimant (N.Y.Ins.Law § 675.2 (McKinney Supp. 1975)) and those requiring automatic renewal of the term of certain insurance policies.2 It is claimed that to permit the *1032invocation of the compulsory arbitration provision only at the option of the claimant violates the Equal…