California Physicians' Service v. Garrison

California Physicians’ Service, a nonprofit corporation (Civ. Code, §§ 593-605e), sued to obtain a declaratory judgment that it is not engaged in the business of insurance within the meaning of the regulatory statutes of this state. The Insurance Commissioner has appealed from a determination adverse to his contentions, and the principal question for decision concerns the organization’s right to operate, without his supervision, for the purpose of defraying the expense of medical care incurred by its dues-paying members.

The stipulation by which the evidence in the case was pre- " sented to…