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Anti-Competitive McCarran-Ferguson Act

Locke Lord LLP

Eliminating McCarran-Ferguson Immunity for Health Insurers - Higher Prices and ‎Compliance Burdens

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For decades, politicians of both stripes routinely promised that they would do something about the relentless rise in health insurance costs by repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Now that Congress passed and former...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act Signed Into Law, Repeals More Than Half-Century-Old Antitrust Exemption for US Health...

Key Points - Until recently, the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1954 made the “business of insurance,” including the business of health insurance, immune from federal antitrust laws. - The Competitive Health Insurance Reform...more

Cozen O'Connor

Repeal of McCarran-Ferguson Act — Ramifications for Insurance Clients

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Health insurance companies are now no longer immune from antitrust scrutiny for activities previously found to be “the business of insurance.” Last week, the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act (CHIRA) was enacted,...more

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House Votes to Repeal Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurers Under the Mccarran-Ferguson Act

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On March 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Competitive Health Insurance Reform Act of 2017, which would repeal the current limited federal antitrust immunity for health insurers. The bill would amend the...more

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