Pacific Mutual Life Insurance v. State

Plaintiff is an insurance company, or-

ganized under the laws of the state of California, and regularly licensed to write insurance in the state of Washington.

This action requires a construction of the so-called insurance retaliatory statute, Rem. Comp. Stat., § 7092, which reads as follows:

“If, by the laws of any other state, any taxes, fines, penalties, licenses, fees, deposits, or other obligations or prohibitions, in the aggregate, additional to or in excess of those imposed by the laws of this state, upon foreign insurance companies and their agents and solicitors, are imposed on…