Prescott v. Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies & Bonds

After an automobile accident, Rosemarie Prescott’s insurer, Middlesex Insurance Company, sent her a surcharge notice stating that it had determined that she was more than fifty percent at fault in the accident, and that, as a consequence, her automobile insurance premium would be increased on her next renewal. The Board of Appeal on Motor Vehicle Liability Policies and Bonds (board) upheld the surcharge, but on Prescott’s appeal under G. L. c. 175, § 113P, a Superior Court judge determined that the board’s decision was “unsupported by substantial evidence.” G. L. c. 30A, § 14. We affirm.

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