For Antitrust Division, One Health Insurance Industry Merger Blocked, One More to Go
Last July, the Department of Justice Antitrust Division filed two actions, challenging proposed mergers that would have reduced the country’s “big five” health insurers to three. Bench trials have been held in these matters. On Monday, Judge John Bates of the federal district court in Washington, D.C. preliminary enjoined Aetna Inc.’s $37 billion attempt to…