Bill Baer was the ultimate Washington antitrust insider when he came to the Justice Department in 2013: At law firm Arnold & Porter LLP, he’d counseled the biggest U.S. companies, including deal machine General Electric Co., on getting mergers over …
Virginia’s State Corporation Commission (SCC) announced that it will hold a public hearing in May to consider the competitive impact of Anthem Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Cigna Corporation and its subsidiaries. As part of that merger, the SCC must consider …
Louisville, Ky.-based Humana has been approved for takeover by Aetna by Kentucky regulators, according to a statement from the Kentucky Department of Insurance Commissioner Brian Maynard. The order approving the request from Aetna to acquire Kentucky domestic insurers CHA HMO …
About 15 state attorneys general have joined the Justice Department’s probe of two big insurance mergers, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing the scrutiny on proposed deals that would reduce the number of nationwide health insurers to three …
Two U.S. consumer groups announced the formation of a coalition with New York labor unions last week to press antitrust regulators to oppose big insurance mergers that would cut the number of nationwide for-profit health insurers from five to three. …
The American Medical Association asked U.S. antitrust regulators to block two proposed mergers that could reshape the health insurance industry. Anthem Inc. shouldn’t be permitted to buy Cigna Corp. and Aetna Inc. should be blocked from acquiring Humana Inc., the …
Health insurer Aetna Inc . said on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice asked for more information on its pending $37 billion acquisition of Humana Inc . The DoJ’s so-called “second request” will delay by 30 days the expiration …
