NU Online News Service, Oct. 8, 2:58 p.m. EDT

A group of nine property and casualty insurance industry trade groups today charged that legislation proposed in Congress, that would end the exemption under antitrust laws for healthcare insurers, had a hidden agenda of opening up some segments of the insurance industry to more lawsuits.

The legislation was introduced in response to what some in Congress felt were unfair attacks this summer by people they linked to the insurance industry as proponents of healthcare reform.

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