Delta Dental Insurance Monopolization Claims Get Green Light

Delta Dental Plans Association and its affiliates must face claims that they conspired to corner the dental insurance market by carving it into regional territories, a federal judge in Chicago ruled, saying the industry doesn’t resemble the credit card market on which the U.S. Supreme Court based a landmark antitrust ruling about “two sided” platforms.

“While there are indeed some similarities between the role credit card companies play in facilitating transactions” and “the role dental insurance companies play in facilitating” care, the defendants “overstate” the decision’s impact and “overreach in their characterization of the dental insurance market as a two-sided ...