In Re New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service (Blue Cross)

It has been a long-standing rule of this Court, seldom relaxed, that cases will not be decided piecemeal. See Turner v. Bragg, 113 Vt. 156, 158, 30 A.2d 450 (1943). It was done in this case only because there were associated cases that shared the jurisdictional issue urged by New Hampshire-Vermont Hospitalization Service (Blue Cross), and, on that account, the issue before us was specially heard by order of this Court.

The single question comes down to the existence or extent of authority in the commissioner of banking and insurance to regulate the rates the New Hampshire-Vermont…