Pollard v. Lyman

How courts have described this case

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• rejecting an argument that the Unfair Trade Practices provision of the Insurance Article was entirely comprehensive to the extent that it precluded concurrent jurisdiction by the Commission of Human Relations in resolving an alleged unfair discriminatory practice in insurance sales
• Human Relations Commission and Insurance Commissioner have concurrent jurisdiction over alleged unfair discriminatory practices by insurers
• Human Relations Commission and Insurance Commissioner have concurrent jurisdiction over alleged unfair discriminatory practices by insurers
• “The legislature in enacting and amending Article 49B leaves no room to doubt its intent and purpose, i.e., to eradicate the vestiges of discrimination in the categories designated.”
• “The purpose ... of this provision is to prevent the joining in one act of totally unrelated pieces of legislation, which would not have received support if offered independently....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).