Industry says repealing McCarran would do consumers more harm than

The representatives--one black and the other Hispanic, who both hail from districts with a preponderance of minority residents--have alerted colleagues they intend to introduce legislation that would

Another federal law, adopted in 1980 to curb an FTC commissioner who wanted to conduct a study comparing life insurance policies to mutual funds, prohibits the FTC from investigating insurance

The representatives--one black and the other Hispanic, who both hail from districts with a preponderance of minority residents--have alerted colleagues they intend to introduce legislation that would pu

WASHINGTON--Officials of various insurance industry trade groups contended in separate statements Thursday that members of Congress who joined to introduce legislation repealing the industry's antitrus

WASHINGTON--Key members of the Senate leadership joined together Thursday to introduce bipartisan legislation that would end the insurance industry's exemption from antitrust laws through the McCarran

The bill has effectively ceded insurance regulation to the states since its enactment in 1945. That McCarran-Ferguson is the law of the land was specifically reiterated in the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act

Zurich Financial Services AG, Switzerland's largest insurer, reported a blowout fourth quarter and 2006 results Thursday, citing strong growth in several categories, especially in its largest market,