Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Paradis

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

TORRES, District Judge.

This is an action to declare void a Rhode Island statute requiring the future payment of annual cost-of-living adjustments to totally disabled workers’ compensation recipients injured prior to the effective date of the statute and to enjoin the pertinent state officials from enforcing that requirement. The theory on which the plaintiffs seek relief is that the statute is unconstitutional because it impairs the contracts between the plaintiff and its insureds in violation of Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution and it constitutes a…