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  • There the confiscatory rate doctrine prevented rate-making bodies from setting rates so low that they could not recoup their costs and make a risk-adjusted competitive rate of return.

    Congress Is Right in Regulating Debit Card Swipe Fees 2011

  • That's why insurers look to segment risk, both in through their underwriting criteria, and in their rate-making structures.

    Health Insurance Regulatory Crisis, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Performance rate-making was a trend in the 1990s, as energy deregulation swept the nation.

    Utility Penalized Over Bad Data 2008

  • It also amended the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 and broadened the range of resource choices for utility companies and outlined new rate-making standards.

    Energy Policy Act of 1992, United States 2008

  • The commission, however, took a rate-making function upon itself, until the Supreme Court in the late 1890s stripped away this power, saying that there is nothing in the act fixing rates.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In all the great cases on rate-making, labor relations, and social welfare, corporations were litigants, bystanders, protagonists, or devils.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The commission, however, took a rate-making function upon itself, until the Supreme Court in the late 1890s stripped away this power, saying that there is nothing in the act fixing rates.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • The commission, however, took a rate-making function upon itself, until the Supreme Court in the late 1890s stripped away this power, saying that there is nothing in the act fixing rates.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In all the great cases on rate-making, labor relations, and social welfare, corporations were litigants, bystanders, protagonists, or devils.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

  • In all the great cases on rate-making, labor relations, and social welfare, corporations were litigants, bystanders, protagonists, or devils.

    A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

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