The FTC has increased the HSR filing thresholds for transactions that will close on or after February 28, 2018. The new 2018 thresholds are slightly higher than the 2017 thresholds, and are as follows:
Size-of-parties thresholds: $16.9M and $168.8M (up from $16.2M and $161.5M in 2017)
Smaller size-of-transaction threshold (which…
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Locke Lord’s Insurance & Reinsurance Newsletter provides topical snapshots of recent developments in the fast-changing world of insurance. For further information on any of the subjects covered in the newsletter, please contact one of the members of our Insurance team.
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The United States Department of Justice has filed an action seeking to enjoin a hospital from enforcing provisions in its contracts with health insurers that prohibit the insurers from steering policyholders to lower cost providers1. The suit targets the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority, the dominant hospital in Charlotte, North…
The European Commission has recently issued a Report announcing its preliminary view that the Insurance Block Exemption Regulation (“IBER”) should not be renewed when it expires on March 31, 2017. The IBER provides an exemption from Article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, which prohibits…
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June 9, 2015
8:00 am – 1:30 pm
Locke Lord LLP
750 Lexington Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Program:
Registration 8:00 am
Program 8:30 am
Lunch 12:30 pm
Program:
The Current State of Antitrust Immunity for Insurance Companies
by Thomas F. Bush and Rowe W. Snider
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Please join us on June 5, 2014 for our 13th Annual Half-Day Insurance and Reinsurance Complimentary Seminar being held in our New York Office.…
Read More COMPLIMENTARY SEMINAR – 13th Annual Half-Day Insurance and Reinsurance Seminar
Please join us on June 5, 2014 for our 13th Annual Half-Day Insurance and Reinsurance Complimentary Seminar being held in our New York Office. …
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The Competition Directorate General of the European Commission (the ‘Commission’) has issued a tender for a third party contractor to undertake a wide-ranging study into co-reinsurance pools and ad hoc co-reinsurance agreements on the subscriptions market within the EU. …
Read More EU: European Commission to Monitor Co-Reinsurance Practices
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has announced that it intends to close a competition investigation into information exchange between motor insurers, following formal commitments from the companies concerned to limit the exchange of information on individual pricing strategies. …
Read More Insurers: Beware of Information Exchanges
The UK Office of Fair Trading (OFT) announced on 13 January 2011 that seven insurance companies (Ageas Insurance Limited (formally Fortis Insurance Limited), Aviva plc, AXA Insurance UK plc, Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society, RBS Insurance Group Limited, Royal Sun Alliance and Zurich Insurance plc), and two IT software and service providers (Experian Limited and SSP Limited) have offered formal commitments to limit the type of information shared through a specialist market analysis tool. …
Read More UK: OFT Competition Investigation Results in Formal Commitments from Motor Insurers to Limit Data Exchange
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