Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. Insurance Commissioner of Commonwealth

*575OPINION

NIX, Chief Justice.

In this appeal we have agreed to review the Commonwealth Court’s affirmance of an order of the Insurance Commissioner of Pennsylvania (“Commissioner”) rescinding his prior approval of Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company’s (“Hartford”) gender-based automobile insurance rates on the ground they were “unfairly discriminatory” under section 3(d) of the Casualty and Surety Rate Regulation Act (“Rate Act”), Act of June 11, 1947, P.L. 538, § 3(d), 40 P.S. § 1183(d)(1971). After careful consideration we have concluded that the Commissioner’s action was both within his…