James M. Burns is a lawyer practicing health care, antitrust and trade regulation, health insurers and managed care organizations and 2 other areas of law. James M. received a A.B. degree from Colgate University in 1983, and has been licensed for 40 years. James M. practices at Akerman LLP in Washington, DC.
Publications
6th Circuit Rejects Blue Cross of Michigan Appeal in "Most Favored Nation" Clause Antitrust Dispute on Jurisdictional Grounds, Alert, 03.01.2012
Federal Trade Commission Announces Changes To The Hart Scott Rodino Premerger Notification Reporting Thresholds And The Thresholds For Interlocking Directorates, Alert, 01.25.2012
Justice Department Halts Blue Cross of Montana's Expansion Plans Based Upon Competitive Concerns, Alert, 01.03.2012
New Jersey District Court Derails Plaintiffs' Antitrust Claims in Ingenix Case, Alert, 11.01.2011
FTC/DOJ Final Policy Statement on Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) Eliminates Mandatory Antitrust Reviews, Alert, 10.21.2011
Court Sets February Date to Hear DOJ Challenge to the AT&T/T-Mobile Merger, Article, 09.23.2011
Second Circuit Finally Puts an End to New York City's Challenge to the Merger that Created EmblemHealth, Alert, 08.31.2011
New York Glass Repair Shop Alleges Insurer Preferred Provider Network Violates Antitrust Laws, Alert, 06.28.2011
Efforts to Repeal the Insurance Industry's Antitrust Exemption Are Reintroduced in the House of Representatives, Alert, 05.02.2011
2010 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments, Book, 03.2011
Federal Trade Commission Announces Changes To The Hart Scott Rodino Premerger Notification Reporting Thresholds And The Thresholds For Interlocking Directorates, Alert, 01.24.2011
DOJ Antitrust Division Pledges to Step Up Antitrust Enforcement in the Health Insurance Industry, Alert, 01.03.2011
DOJ Contends Health Insurer's Use of Most Favored Nation Clauses is Anticompetitive, Alert, 11.01.2010
Recent Antitrust Division Enforcement Action Casts Doubt on the Permissibility of Certain Employee Non-Solicitation Agreements, Alert, 10.18.2010
Beware: Potential Evidence of Conspiratorial Conduct May be Lurking When Making Public Comments, Alert, 09.27.2010
Third Circuit Revives the In re Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Litigation, Alert, 09.01.2010
McCarran-Ferguson Act's Antitrust Exemption Dodges Another Attempt at Repeal, Alert, 07. 2010
Health Care Reform 101: Without A Repeal of the Health Insurance Industry's Antitrust Exemption, Has Congress Created A Prescription for Future Problems or Given Us Just What the Doctor Ordered?, Article, 06.16.2010
European Commission Announces its Renewal of the Insurance Industry's Antitrust Block Exemption, Alert, 05. 2010
'Most Favored Nation' Clauses And Health Insurers, Article, 04.26.2010
Ohio Legislative Commission Recommends that "Most Favored Nation" Clauses Be Prohibited in All Health Care Contracts, Alert, 04. 2010
The Latest Swipe At Insurers' Antitrust Exemption, Article, 03.02.2010
House Once Again Passes McCarran Repeal Legislation, Alert, 03. 2010
Federal Trade Commission Announces New Jurisdictional Thresholds for Premerger Notifications and Interlocking Directorates, Alert, 01. 2010
Can Antitrust Exemption Survive Health Care Reform?, Article, 01.08.2010
Will Health Care Reform End the Insurance Industry's Antitrust Exemption?, Alert, 01. 2010
Congress Sets Its Sights on the Insurance Industry's McCarran Ferguson Act Antitrust Exemption, Alert, 11. 2009
The Use of State Statutes and Common Law Tort Theories to Regulate Business Conduct, Article, 10.08.2009
Can We Get Our Antitrust Training From Hollywood?, Article, 10.05.2009
Maryland Law Prohibiting Resale Price Maintenance Goes Into Effect, Legislatively Overruling Leegin, Article, 10. 2009
President Obama's Regulatory Reform Bill Includes the Creation of a National Insurance Office, Alert, 09.02.2009
New Law Extends the Benefits Provided to Corporations that Voluntarily Report Antitrust Violations to Federal Regulators, Alert, 07.15.2009
Title Insurers Secure Two Big Wins in Defense of Price Fixing Claims, Alert, 07.01.2009
New Antitrust Division Head Breathes New Life Into Section 2 Antitrust Enforcement, Alert, 06. 2009
FTC Issues Favorable Advisory Opinion Permitting Competing Providers to Engage in Joint Contracting Where They are Sufficiently "Clinically Integrated", Alert, 05. 2009
Legislation Repealing the Insurance Industry's Antitrust Exemption Is Introduced, Alert, 05. 2009
Supreme Court Issues Important Antitrust Ruling on "Price Squeeze" Claims, Article, 04.21.2009
Antitrust Alert: Early Signs Point Towards Antitrust "Change" in the Obama Administration, Alert, 03. 2009
2008 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments, Book, 03. 2009
Marsh Settlement of Insurance Brokerage Antitrust Lawsuit Approved by Court, Alert, 02.23.2009
The Obama Administration: Will "Change" Include a Change in Antitrust Enforcement?, Article, 01.30.2009
Revised Jurisdictional Thresholds for Section 7A and Section 8 of the Clayton Act, Alert, 01.19.2009
DOJ Antitrust Division Approves Creation of Insurance Consortium, Alert, 01.05.2009
Landmark DOJ Report On Section 2 Enforcement Policy Exposes Rift With FTC, Article, 12.23.2008
The Obama Administration: Will "Change" Include a Change in Antitrust Enforcement?, Alert, 11.17.2008
Federal Regulators Issue Joint Statement Opposing State Certificate Of Need Statutes, Alert, 11.10.2008
Federal Bailout Reignites Debate Over the Need for Federal Regulation of Insurance, Alert, 11.05.2008
DOJ Antitrust Division Report on Section 2 Enforcement Policy Exposes Rift with FTC, Alert, 10.22.2008
Federal Trade Commission Announces Public Workshops on Health Care Competition Issues, Alert, 09.10.2008
Fifth Circuit Affirms FTC Ruling in Precedential "Messenger Model" Antitrust Case, Alert, 07.08.2008
Insurer Fails to Derail New York Attorney General's "Contingent Commission" Bid Rigging Claims, Alert, 07. 2008
FTC Seeks to Block Northern Virginia Hospital Merger, Article, 05. 2008
The Fate of the Insurance Industry's Antitrust Exemption in Europe is Under Review, Alert, 05. 2008
Insurance Executives Convicted of Criminal Antitrust Violations, Article, 03. 2008
UnitedHealth/Sierra Merger Permitted to Proceed, With Conditions, Alert, 03. 2008
Revised Reporting Thresholds Under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, Alert, 03. 2008
Louisiana Attorney General Accuses Insurers of Antitrust Conspiracy, Alert, 01.01.2008
Supreme Court Rewrites the Rules on Resale Price Maintenance Agreements: 'The Leegin Case', Alert, 07.11.2007
Antitrust Compliance Programs: More Important Now Than Ever Before, Alert, 06.01.2007
Antitrust Law Developments (Sixth Edition), Book, April 2007
The Insurance Antitrust Handbook (Second Edition), Book, 2006
2004 Annual Review of Antitrust Law Developments, Book, March 2005
Events
Past Events
Hot Litigation Picks for 2012, Speaking Engagement, 10.27.2011
Richmond General Counsel Roundtable, Speaking Engagement, 09.29.2010
The European Commission's New Block Exemption for the Insurance Industry: Will it Have Trans-Atlantic Repercussions?, Speaking Engagement, Webinar, 06.04.2010
Health Insurers and the Antitrust Laws; The Impact of Proposed Changes in the Law in the District of Columbia and Elsewhere, Speaking Engagement, 05.14.2010
Private and Public Efforts to Regulate Business Through Litigation and Enforcement Actions, Speaking Engagement, 10.08.2009
Highmark/IBC Merger Challenge - A New Paradigm for Health Insurance Mergers?, Speaking Engagement, 03.02.2009
Recent Antitrust Enforcement Activity in the Payment Card Industry, Speaking Engagement, 02.22.2008
The McCarran-Ferguson Act - Balancing Regulatory and Antitrust Policy, Speaking Engagement, 11. 2007
Insurance Relationships with Third Parties - Agents, Brokers and Providers - The Antitrust Issues, Speaking Engagement, 05. 2006
Antitrust Issues Raised by Health Insurer/Provider Relationships, Speaking Engagement, 04. 2004
Insurance Antitrust: Basic Principles and Recent Developments in the Law, Speaking Engagement, 09. 2000
Antitrust Issues Raised in the Marketing and Distribution of Insurance Products, Speaking Engagement, 05. 2000
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