Liability Investigative Fund Effort, Inc. v. Massachusetts Medical Professional Insurance

In these consolidated cases, the corporate plaintiff and the individual plaintiffs, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, bring constitutional challenges to two statutes relating to the provision of medical malpractice insurance by the Massachusetts Medical Professional Insurance Association (MMPIA). Both St. 1975, c. 362, § 6, as amended by St. 1980, c. 333, and St. 1986, c. 351, provide for payments by malpractice insureds for costs incurred by the MMPIA in providing malpractice insurance in past years. The complaints sought declaratory and other relief to challenge the…