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

McGEE, Judge.

On 1 February 1994, the North Carolina Rate Bureau (Bureau) filed a general request for increased rates for private passenger automobiles and motorcycles. The rate increase requested an increase of 10.8% for automobile rates and 22.4% for motorcycle rates. The Commissioner held a comprehensive hearing during the summer of 1994. The filing request was more than 1,500 pages in length; there were an additional 800 pages of responses by the Bureau to the Commissioner’s requests for data to explain the filing; the hearing transcript is more than 3,500 pages in length and the evidence…