State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau

EAGLES, Judge.

The sole question presented here is whether the Commissioner of Insurance erred in failing to order the release of funds placed in escrow pending judicial review of the Commission’s 1 February 1988 order. Because this appeal is interlocutory, we dismiss it.

The Rate Bureau appeals from the order of the Commissioner dated 1 March 1990 that denied its motion for the release of funds held in escrow under G.S. 58-36-25. “Fragmentary, piecemeal appeals from interlocutory orders are not usually permitted in this state; they are authorized only when it appears that a substantial right…