Commonwealth v. American Bankers Insurance Co. of Florida

OPINION OF THE COURT

Appellant, the Insurance Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, charged American Bankers Insurance Company of Florida (American) with a violation of certain provisions of the Pennsylvania insurance laws.1 Following a hearing, American was found to have committed at least 110 violations and was accordingly fined $5500.00.2 On appeal, the Commonwealth Court reversed. The ground of reversal was a lack of procedural due process in the hearing procedures of the Insurance Department which in turn had been caused by insufficient separation of the prosecutorial *534and…