State ex rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. State ex rel. Attorney General

BRITT, Judge.

The case of In re Filing by Automobile Rate Office, 278 N.C. 302, 180 S.E. 2d 155 (1971), hereinafter referred to as Automobile Rate Office case, involved an appeal from an order of the Commissioner approving an increase of rates on private automobile liability insurance based on a 1 July 1969 filing by the Rate Office. In the opinion in that case, Chief Justice Bobbitt sets forth fully the statutory framework and procedures in North Carolina governing regulation of private automobile liability insurance rates applicable at that time. No worthwhile *281purpose would be served in…