8th Circuit Upholds Federal RICO Claims Dismissal Against Insurer, Reinsurer

Mealey's (April 27, 2017, 2:16 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — Allowing federal racketeering claims against an insurer and its affiliates, including a reinsurer, to proceed would impair state regulation of the insurance business in Iowa, Maryland or Missouri, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed April 13 (Dale R. Ludwick, on behalf of herself and all others similarly situated v. Harbinger Group Inc., et al., No. 16-1561, 8th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 6391)....