The state’s largest medical malpractice carrier can require claimants to use its structured settlement brokers rather than their own, a commercial division judge in Buffalo has held.

Acting Supreme Court Justice Timothy Walker (See Profile) rejected claims of a Buffalo plaintiffs’ broker that Medical Liability Mutual Insurance Co. (MLMIC), by requiring claimant’s to exclusively use its designated brokers, is engaging in conduct that results in an unlawful restraint of trade.