Lumbermen's Mutual Casualty Co. v. Insurance Commissioner

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

This opinion encompasses three separate administrative proceedings which were consolidated for purposes of judicial review. In all three cases, insurance companies sent notices of proposed nonrenewal of automobile liability insurance policies; the insureds protested and requested hearings before the Insurance Commissioner; after hearings, the Insurance Commissioner disallowed the proposed actions and ordered the insurers to renew the policies, and the insurers sought judicial review. 1 The controversy in each of the cases is the same. It involves two distinct sets of statutory…