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Presentation by Eithne McCarthy - the new Insurance Block Exemption Regulation
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- USA
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- April 22 2010
Eithne McCarthy, from the Financial Services Unit of the European Commission's Competition Directorate General (DG Comp), made a presentation on the new Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (BER) to the Law Society's Competition Section on 13 April 2010
House introduces health insurance bill to repeal antitrust exemption
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- USA
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- February 24 2010
On Monday, February 22, Representatives Tom Perriello (D-Va.) and Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) introduced H.R. 4626, the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the business of health insurance
Connecticut jury awards $14.7 million against insurer for violation of Unfair Trade Practices Act in auto body shop class action lawsuit
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- USA
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- February 8 2010
In a class action lawsuit brought by various auto body shops and the Auto Body Association of Connecticut, a Connecticut jury recently rendered a $14.7 million verdict against an insurance company for allegedly violating the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act
Repeal of antitrust exemption gains traction as House and Senate Democrats reconcile healthcare reform bills
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- USA
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- January 8 2010
U.S. House Representatives Peter DeFazio, (D-OR) and Gene Taylor (D-MS) drafted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in support of repealing the antitrust exemption under the McCarran Ferguson Act for health insurers and medical liability insurers
Massachusetts Attorney General issues report stating managed competition of auto insurance has failed
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- USA
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- January 8 2010
At the end of December 2009, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley released a comprehensive report criticizing Massachusetts managed competition system for the deregulation of auto insurance
Partial repeal of the insurance antitrust exemption introduced as amendment to Senate healthcare bill
- Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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- USA
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- December 4 2009
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) filed an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) (the “PPACA”) on December 1, 2009, that would repeal the exemption from federal antitrust laws for the health insurance and medical malpractice insurance industries
House Committee votes to eliminate insurers’ federal antitrust exemption
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- USA
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- October 22 2009
On October 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted to repeal health and medical malpractice insurers’ long-standing federal antitrust exemption
Legislation introduced to eliminate federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies
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- USA
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- September 17 2009
Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy introduced legislation to eliminate the federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies
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- Jurisdiction - USA
- Workarea - Insurance & Reinsurance
- Workarea - Competition
- Author - Brian Green
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