General State Authority of the Commonwealth v. Pacific Indemnity Co.

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

Although plaintiff, General State Authority (GSA), has recently been merged into the newly created Department of General Services, it retains a limited vitality until the satisfaction of its bond obligations.1 Hence, despite the GSA’s temporal existence, its status for purposes of our jurisdiction in this case must be adjudicated.

The GSA was created by The General State Authority Act of one thousand nine hundred forty-nine2 as a public corporation and governmental instrumentality for various purposes, including the construction and acquisition of public…