Hardware Mutual Casualty Co. v. Premo

This is an action brought in two counts by ten mutual insurance companies doing business in this state against three domestic stock insurance companies and the Connecticut insurance commissioner. The first count seeks a declaratory judgment as to the constitutionality of Public Act No. 347, enacted by the General Assembly in 1963, relating to the regulation of casualty and property insurance rates. By way of relief, the plaintiffs in the first count also pray that, if Public Act No. 347 is found invalid and void, an injunction issue restraining the defendant commissioner from approving any…