Legal Opinion
In Re the Department of Insurance's Order Nos. A89-119 & A90-125
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided July 29, 1992PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
O’HERN, J.
The central issue in this appeal is whether the Legislature intended, through its “flex-rate” provisions, to allow insurers to implement, without prior approval, a minimum annual increase of three percent in private-passenger automobile-insurance rates as an incentive to the restructuring of the automobile-insurance market. The flex-rate provisions, N.J.S.A. 17:29A-44, set a statutory cap on the “Statewide average rate change,” beyond which rates cannot automatically increase without prior approval from the Commissioner of Insurance *367(the…
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- NJ Builders, Owners and Managers Association v. BlairSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1972
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