Senate Subcommittee examines brokerage practices.(Capitol Beat)

Claims, January, 2005

The U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Financial Management, Budget, and International Security of the Governmental Affairs Committee recently held an oversight hearing on insurance brokerage practices. The hearing was presided over by Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, R-Ill., who cited the McCarran-Ferguson Act of 1945 and suggested that Congress should reconsider the antitrust exemptions of the act. Witnesses testifying before the subcommittee included representatives of insurance trade groups, as well as Eliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general; Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general; Gregory Serio, New York's superintendent of insurance; and John Garamendi, California's insurance commissioner.

Connecticut's investigation, which began last spring, has expanded...

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