Legal Opinion
Welsch v. Aetna Insurance
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided May 10, 1985No. 1450PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HESTER, Judge:
On September 27, 1984, the Supreme Court held that gender-based automobile insurance rates were “unfairly discriminatory” within the meaning of the Casualty and Surety Rate Regulation Act (hereinafter “Rate Act”). 1 See Hartford Accident and Indemnity Co. v. Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 505 Pa. 571, 482 A.2d 542 (1984). In doing so, it affirmed the order of the Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania (hereinafter “Commissioner”) rescinding his prior approval of gender-based automobile insurance rates.
In the case before us, appellants, a class…
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- Great American Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. NovotnySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Vattimo v. Lower Bucks Hospital, Inc.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Insurance Commissioner of CommonwealthSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1984
- Murphy v. Harleysville Mutual InsuranceSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1980
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