Foster v. Mutual Fire, Marine & Inland Insurance

OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

We are called upon to examine the propriety of certain actions undertaken by the Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the capacity of Rehabilitator (“Insurance Commissioner” or “Rehabilitator”) of the estate of the insolvent Mutual Fire, Marine and Inland Insurance Company (“Mutual Fire”). The intricate facts surrounding Mutual Fire’s insolvency and many of the related circumstances have been fully detailed and exhaustively discussed in Foster v. Mutual Fire, Marine and Inland Ins. Co., 531 Pa. 598, 614 A.2d 1086 (1992), cert. denied, 506…