Stone & Edwards Insurance Agency, Inc. v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the Insurance Department has erected sufficient “walls of division” to comply with due process with regard to the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of alleged insurance law violations
• explaining that the appearance of bias, partiality, or prejudice Lyness proscribes “must clearly be one that arises from an actual environment of commingled functions. . . . In the absence of any actual commingling . . . due process guarantees are being adequately protected”
• “a single administrative agency may exercise both prosecutorial and adjudicative functions if ‘walls of separation’ are constructed within an agency that clearly separates those two functions.”

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