California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau V. Downey

The Insurance Commissioner of California suspended the right of the California State Automobile Association Inter-Insurance Bureau to transact the automobile liability insurance business in this state because of the refusal of the bureau to subscribe to or participate in the California Automobile Assigned Risk Plan. (Cal. Admin. Code, title 10, §§ 2400-2498.) This plan had been approved and promulgated by the commissioner under the claimed authority of the Assigned Risk Law. (Stats, 1947, chap. 1205, p. 2714; Ins. Code, §§ 11620-11627.) Pursuant to section 11523 of the Government Code as amended in 1947, the bureau sought, by mandate, to compel the commissioner to restore its right to do business.