Terms Used In Alabama Code 27-13-69

  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.

Any member of, or subscriber to, a rating organization may appeal to the commissioner from the decision of such rating organization in approving or rejecting any proposed change in, or addition to, the filings of such rating organization; and the commissioner shall, after a hearing held on not less than 10 days’ written notice to the appellant and to such rating organization, issue an order approving the decision of such rating organization or directing it to give further consideration to such proposal. If such appeal is based upon the failure of the rating organization to make a filing on behalf of such member or subscriber which is based on a system of expense provisions which differs, in accordance with the right granted in this article, from the system of expense provisions included in a filing made by the rating organization, the commissioner shall, if he grants the appeal, order the rating organization to make the requested filing for use by the appellant.