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EVANSTON INS. CO., INC. v. MERIN

Civ. A. No. 84-3743.

598 F.Supp. 1290 (1984)

EVANSTON INSURANCE COMPANY, INC., Appalachian Insurance Co., Risk & Insurance Management Society, and Donald A. Brody, Plaintiffs, v. Kenneth D. MERIN, New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association, and Thomas H. Kean, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

November 19, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holzapfel, Perkins & Killy, William R. Holzapfel, Cranford, N.J., LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Cecilia Kempler, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Irwin I. Kimmelman, Atty. Gen. of N.J., John J. Hayden, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendants Thomas H. Kean and Kenneth D. Merin.

Stryker, Tams & Dill, Richard R. Spencer, Jr., and William Heller, Newark, N.J., for defendant New Jersey Property-Liability Insurance Guaranty Association.

Kroll, Pomerantz & Cameron, Sol Kroll, New York City, Haskins, Hack, Piro & O'Day, John C. Lane, West Orange, N.J., for amicus curiae The Institute of London Underwriters.

OPINION

SAROKIN, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

The plaintiffs in this matter challenge the right of the State of New Jersey to impose fees upon them for issuing coverage insuring persons or property within the state. Primarily plaintiffs contest the constitutionality of the statute here in question on the ground that surplus lines insurance companies do not, indeed are not permitted to, do business in this state. All business of this nature must...

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