New Jersey and Delaware title insurance companies didn’t violate antitrust laws when they set their rates with government agencies, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held in a pair of similar opinions released Thursday.

In both class action cases, the title insurance purchasers claimed that the companies had violated the Sherman Act, and in both cases the district courts had ruled that the claims were barred by the filed-rate doctrine. The Third Circuit affirmed the holding of the New Jersey and Delaware district courts.

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