Colonial Life & Accident Insurance v. State

OPINION

NOYES, Presiding Judge.

Since 1986, Appellee Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company (“Colonial”) has sold insurance to state employees via pre-tax payroll deduction without having to compete for and be awarded a contract from Appellants (“the State”), as required of other insurance companies. In 1993, when the State sought to terminate this privilege, Colonial filed a special action in superior court seeking a judgment declaring that Ariz.Rev.Stat. Ann. (“A.R.S.”) section 38-612(B) (Supp. 1994) exempts it from the requirements imposed by the State on other insurance companies, and…