New Hampshire-Vermont Health Service v. Commissioner of Insurance

This case requires us to construe the powers and duties of the insurance commissioner under RSA 420-A:ll (Supp. 1979).

In April 1981, the commissioner of insurance began his annual rate review of the plaintiff New Hampshire-Vermont Health Service, a Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan doing business in New Hampshire. The annual rate review is mandated by RSA 420-A:ll (Supp. 1979), which requires that “[a]nnually, in the month of April, the insurance commissioner shall review the rates of every [nonprofit health service] corporation, and shall, not later than sixty days after the first of April of each…