Quackenbush v. Aurora National Life Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that under the abuse of discretion standard, a court must evaluate whether the decision “is “contrary to specific statute”
• noting that under the abuse of discretion standard, a court asks “was the action arbitrary, i.e. unsupported by a rational basis”
• reviewing challenge to approval of rehabilitation plan and noting that “[t]he trial court reviews the Commissioner’s actions under the abuse of discretion standard”
• “We . . . test the action of the trial court [in liquidation proceedings] by the abuse of discretion standard.”
• Insurance Commissioner’s first duty to not deprive policyholders of the protection of their policies
• the Insurance Code authorizes the Commissioner as conservator to “exercise[] the state’s police power to carry forward the public interest and to protect policyholders and creditors of the insolvent insurer”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).