State ex rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau

CLARK, Judge.

Over the last seven years marking the tenure of the present Commissioner of Insurance, the Appellate Division has been beset with the burden of reviewing the Commissioner’s disapproval of virtually every Filing which has proposed an increase in insurance rates. Almost invariably (in at least eighteen cases to *195date) the Appellate Division has found the orders and rulings of the Commissioner to be unacceptable in whole or in part under the law of this State.* For several years the rate-making process was stalemated by a seemingly endless cycle in which the Commissioner would…