Maryland Fire Underwriters Rating Bureau v. Insurance Commissioner

This is an appeal from judgments entered, in the Baltimore City Court in favor of Maryland’s Insurance Commissioner in three proceedings which challenged the va*260lidity of orders entered by the Commissioner denying requests for authority to increase certain insurance rates.

Late in 1968, and early in 1969, three insurance rating bureaus, Maryland Fire Underwriters Rating Bureau, Multi-Line Insurance Rating Bureau and Transportation Insurance Rating Bureau (the Rating Bureaus) had made virtually identical but not simultaneous filings with the Commissioner in support of a proposed increase of…