Legal Opinion
Home Indemnity Insurance v. Merchants Distributors, Inc.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 15, 1985PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
The plaintiff insurer (Home Indemnity) seeks to collect a retrospective workers’ compensation premium charge from the defendant insured (Merchants Distributors).
For three years commencing on January 1, 1970, Home Indemnity provided workers’ compensation insurance to Mer chants Distributors under a policy subject to a retrospective premium endorsement. Commencing on January 1, 1973, Merchants Distributors abandoned the retrospective rating aspect of its coverage and thereafter took from Home Indemnity a standard form of policy under which annually an insured’s premium obligations are fixed in…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Bond Bros., Inc. v. ROBINSON AMERICAN INS. CO.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1984
- Murach v. Massachusetts Bonding & InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
- Markline Co., Inc. v. Travelers Ins. Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1981
- Zerofski's CaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Service Mutual Liability Insurance v. AronofskyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1941
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