(December 8, 2022, 3:15 PM EST) -- TUMWATER, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court on Dec. 8 denied the American Property Casualty Insurance Association’s writ of mandamus seeking to compel the state’s insurance commissioner to transfer its members’ adjudicative hearing to an administrative law judge instead of the insurance agency’s in-house presiding officer, finding that the association fails to demonstrate that “it lacks a plain, speedy, and adequate remedy at law” in a dispute arising from a 2021 data call requesting information, including details on refunds, credit or reductions that were provided to insureds in relation to the coronavirus....