Case Name: GOLDEN RULE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE and Treasurer, State of Florida, Appellee
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1992-10-14
Citations: 606 So. 2d 1233
Docket Number: No. 91-2918
Parties: GOLDEN RULE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE and Treasurer, State of Florida, Appellee.
Judges: SHIVERS, ZEHMER and KAHN, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 606
Pages: 1233–1233

Head Matter:
GOLDEN RULE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF INSURANCE and Treasurer, State of Florida, Appellee.
No. 91-2918.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
Oct. 14, 1992.
Rehearing Denied Dec. 4, 1992.
Curtis J. Dickinson, Carmel, Indiana, and W. David Watkins of Oertel, Hoffman, Fernandez & Cole, Tallahassee, for appellant.
Dennis Silverman and Michelle Guy, Dept, of Ins., for appellee.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
Golden Rule Insurance Company (Golden Rule) appeals an administrative order, entered by Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher, approving Golden Rule's rate revision filing as of the date of the final order and rejecting the hearing officer's recommendation that the filing be deemed approved pursuant to section 627.410, Florida Statutes. Appellant contends that the Insurance Commissioner erred in granting the rate revision filing as of the date of the final order rather than deeming the filing approved 30 days after the filing was received by the Department, as required by section 627.410, Florida Statutes. Golden Rule admitted at oral argument, however, that even if the Insurance Commissioner had applied the deemer provision at the time of the final order, the new rate revision could not be retroactive. We are therefore constrained to dismiss the appeal as moot. Dismissal is not to be construed as approval of the Commissioner's interpretation of the statute.
Appeal DISMISSED.
SHIVERS, ZEHMER and KAHN, JJ., concur.