Trade groups urged state insurance commissioners meeting here to oppose a bill before Congress that would eliminate insurers' antitrust provisions in the McCarran-Ferguson Act, warning that it would diminish state regulation.

The caution came from an industry liaison group speaking at the National Association of Insurance Commissioners summer meeting.

Among the potential harm that the proposed repeal would cause, they said, is a multilayered system of regulation and a new source of litigation.

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