HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO ET AL V CALIFORNIA ET ALMERRETT UNDERWRITING AGENCY MANAGEMENT LTD ET AL V CALIFORNIA ET AL

(1993) 2 Re LR 201

United States Supreme Court

Before Chief Justice William H Rehnquist, and Justices David H Souter, Byron R White, Harry A Blackmun, John Paul Stevens, Antonin Scalia, Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony M Kennedy and Clarence Thomas

United States - Antitrust - Jurisdiction - Immunity - Alleged boycott of ISO CGL “occurrence” form by US domestic insurers and reinsurers and London market reinsurers - Alleged conspiracy - Whether US domestic insurance companies forfeited antitrust immunity under section 2(b) of McCarran-Ferguson Act by conspiring with foreign reinsurers - Whether principles of international comity counselled against US court exercising jurisdiction over conduct of London market reinsurers - Meaning of “boycott”.