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  "name": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, EX REL. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE v. COMPENSATION RATING AND INSPECTION BUREAU OF NORTH CAROLINA",
  "name_abbreviation": "State ex rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. Compensation Rating & Inspection Bureau",
  "decision_date": "1976-01-21",
  "docket_number": "No. 7510INS636",
  "first_page": "409",
  "last_page": "410",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "judges": [
      "Judges Morris and Parker concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, EX REL. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE v. COMPENSATION RATING AND INSPECTION BUREAU OF NORTH CAROLINA"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "MARTIN, Judge.\nAppellant contends that the order of the Commissioner dated 25 April 1975 disapproving the rate filing proposal is contrary to the applicable statutory rate-making procedure found in G.S. 58-27.2 (a) in that the Commissioner failed to hold a hearing on the matter. We agree.\nTo affirm an order denying rate increases when there was no opportunity for notice and hearing subjects both the public and the insurance carriers to danger of arbitrary action by the Commissioner.\nReversed and remanded for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion.\nJudges Morris and Parker concur.",
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        "author": "MARTIN, Judge."
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney General Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General I sham B. Hudson, Jr., for the State.",
      "Allen, Steed and Pullen, P.A., by Thomas W. Steed, Jr., for defendant appellant."
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    "head_matter": "STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, EX REL. COMMISSIONER OF INSURANCE v. COMPENSATION RATING AND INSPECTION BUREAU OF NORTH CAROLINA\nNo. 7510INS636\n(Filed 21 January 1976)\nMaster and Servant \u00a7 80\u2014 workmen\u2019s compensation rate filing \u2014 disapproval without notice and hearing\nThe Commissioner of Insurance erred in disapproving a workmen\u2019s compensation rate filing made by the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau without giving the Bureau notice and an opportunity to be heard. G.S. 58-27.2(a).\nDependant appeals from an order of the Commissioner of Insurance, John Randolph Ingram, entered 25 April 1975. Heard in the Court of Appeals 18 November 1975.\nOn 7 December 1972, the appellant, the Compensation Rating and Inspection Bureau of North Carolina, filed with the Commissioner of Insurance of North Carolina a proposal on behalf of its member companies which write workmen\u2019s compensation insurance in North Carolina seeking increased and revised workmen\u2019s compensation rates for classifications which have exposure under the United States Longshoremen\u2019s and Harbor Worker\u2019s Compensation Act, known as \u201cF\u201d classifications.\nFollowing the 7 December 1972 filing the Bureau made repeated requests of the Commissioner that the filing be acted upon because of the fact that its member insurance carriers were being required to pay benefits under the \u201cF\u201d classifications at substantially high levels although the approved rates for such coverage continued to reflect the lower benefit levels previously in effect. Included among these requests were letters from the General Manager of the Bureau addressed to the Commissioner dated 16 April 1978, 30 November 1973, 31 December 1978, 17 January 1974, 1 April 1974, and 24 July 1974. A request for action upon the 7 December 1972 filing was also made to the Commissioner by counsel for the Bureau in a letter dated 2 August 1974.\nDespite the repeated requests on the part of the Bureau for consideration of its 7 December 1972 filing, the Commissioner took no action on the filing until 25 April 1975 when he issued an order disapproving the filing. The Commissioner\u2019s order of 25 April 1975 was issued without any prior notice to the Bureau and without affording to the Bureau any opportunity to be heard. On 23 May 1975, the Bureau filed its Motion to Vacate Order in which it requested the Commissioner to rescind and set aside his order of 25 April 1975, to allow the Bureau to file such amendments and supplemental data and exhibits to its 7 December 1972 filing, and to set the matter for hearing.\nAlso on 23 May 1975, the Bureau filed its Exception and Notice of Appeal to the North Carolina Court of Appeals.\nNo action was taken by the Commissioner on the Motion to Vacate.\nAttorney General Edmisten, by Assistant Attorney General I sham B. Hudson, Jr., for the State.\nAllen, Steed and Pullen, P.A., by Thomas W. Steed, Jr., for defendant appellant."
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  "file_name": "0409-01",
  "first_page_order": 437,
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