1946: Insurance

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Congress, through the medium of Public Law 15, enacted in the early part of 1945, plainly stated that the anti-trust laws would apply when the moratorium provided by that law had run its course on January 1, 1948, insofar as the business of insurance is not regulated by state law. ...