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AMERICAN MFRS. MUTUAL INS. CO. v. COMMR. OF INS.

374 Mass. 181 (1978)

372 N.E.2d 520

AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

January 5, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Acheson H. Callaghan, Jr. (Jeffrey Swope with him) for the plaintiffs.

S. Stephen Rosenfeld, Assistant Attorney General (Mitchell J. Sikora, Jr. & Terry Jean Seligmann, Assistant Attorneys General, with him) for the defendant.

John G. Ryan, for Metropolitan Property and Liability Insurance Company, intervener, submitted a brief.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., QUIRICO, KAPLAN, & ABRAMS, JJ.

HENNESSEY, C.J.

On July 21, 1977, the plaintiff motor vehicle insurance carriers filed a complaint in the Supreme Judicial Court for the county of Suffolk seeking declaratory and injunctive relief from the operation of St. 1977, c. 365. The contested statute requires the plaintiffs, and all other insurers in Massachusetts, to rewrite certain automobile insurance contracts issued in 1977 retroactive to January 1, 1977, at reduced rates. The plaintiffs contend that...

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