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US med mal sector faces antitrust legislation

22 October 2009

A US House of Representatives panel voted this week to approve a plan that would make medical malpractice insurers subject to antitrust laws.

The bill, which was introduced in both the House and Senate last month, would repeal an exemption granted in 1945 and make health and medical malpractice insurance companies subject to laws that forbid price fixing, bid rigging and dividing markets between them.

The House Judiciary Committee amended its version of the bill to allow companies to work...

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