LaFarge Corp. v. Com., Ins. Dept.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FLAHERTY, Chief Justice.

This case requires us to interpret the General Associations Act Amendments Act of 1990 (GAAAA of 1990) 1 in order to determine the type of hearing the insurance department must conduct before approving a plan for restructure and division of an insurance company. The question is whether the legislature intended, when it enacted the GAAAA of 1990 making the GAA applicable to insurance companies, to incorporate the stringent procedural due process requirements of the more general Administrative Agency Law (AAL), 2 or whether the GAAAA of 1990 was…