Sheppard v. Old Heritage Mutual Insurance

Opinion by

President Judge Bowman,

This original jurisdiction action1 was commenced *431on Angnst 16, 1977, when petitioner, the then Insurance Commissioner of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, filed an application for order to show cause which seeks, as its ultimate relief, the liquidation of the business of Old Heritage Mutual Insurance Company (hereinafter Old Heritage or the Company).2 Old Heritage is an assessable domestic mutual casualty insurance company, organized pursuant to the laws of the Commonwealth, and licensed by the Insurance Commissioner to engage in the business of health and…