Second Circuit Dismisses Title Insurance Price Fixing Case

The Second Circuit has affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action alleging price fixing among title insurers.  The plaintiffs alleged that the insurers manipulated the states-rate setting process to include agency commissions in their insurance rates.  Relying on the filed rate doctrine, the Second Circuit held that the state regulators were sufficiently active to prevent antitrust scrutiny.

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