Long v. National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters

*437Me. Special Justice Howaed

delivered the opinion of the Court.*

This appeal involves a certiorari proceeding filed in the Circuit Court of Davidson County by two Insurance Rating Bureaus against John R. Long, Jr., State Commissioner of the Department of Insurance and Banking, State of Tennessee, to have the action of the Commissioner in disapproving a rate increase for many of the automobile insurance companies operating in Tennessee declared illegal and set aside.

The petition for certiorari alleges that petitioners are rating organizations of insurance companies writing automobile insurance in…