[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1525 Introduced in Senate (IS)]








109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1525

 To ensure that commercial insurers cannot engage in price fixing, bid 
  rigging, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and 
                               consumers.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 28, 2005

Mr. Leahy (for himself, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Rockefeller, Mrs. 
   Boxer, Mr. Feingold, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Salazar, Mr. Obama, and Ms. 
   Mikulski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that commercial insurers cannot engage in price fixing, bid 
  rigging, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and 
                               consumers.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Medical Malpractice Insurance 
Antitrust Act of 2005''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON ANTI-COMPETITIVE ACTIVITIES.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing in the Act of 
March 9, 1945 (15 U.S.C. 1011 et seq., commonly known as the 
``McCarran-Ferguson Act'') shall be construed to permit commercial 
insurers to engage in any form of price fixing, bid rigging, or market 
allocations in connection with the conduct of the business of providing 
medical malpractice insurance.

SEC. 3. APPLICATION TO ACTIVITIES OF STATE COMMISSIONS OF INSURANCE AND 
              OTHER STATE INSURANCE REGULATORY BODIES.

    This Act does not apply to the information gathering and rate 
setting activities of any State commissions of insurance, or any other 
State regulatory body with authority to set insurance rates.
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