J. F. Crawford v. American Title Insurance Company

Faced with deciding how closely the federal courts should scrutinize state schemes for regulating insurance practices 1 before determining that the McCarrofb-Férguson Act exemption, Title 15, U.S.C., § 1012(b), from federal antitrust laws applies, the district court adopted a middle of the road approach and held 2 that the statutory scheme, em*218bodied in Code of Alabama, Title 28A, § 227 et seq., for regulation of the specific industry, was sufficient to bring the title insurance industry within the exemption. He rejected the argument of plaintiffs-appellants, representing a class of Alabama…