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Applied Systems faces US antitrust claims from rival in accounting software business

( January 19, 2026, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Comulate filed a US complaint accusing rival company Applied Systems of unlawfully campaigning to destroy it because Applied could not acquire or outcompete it. The complaint says that Applied, which controls over 80 percent of the market for enterprise-level insurance agency management systems and owns the industry’s critical data infrastructure, launched a coordinated scheme to use its market power to eliminate Comulate — a startup whose innovative product has rapidly become the market leading provider of automated insurance agency accounting software — and extend its dominance to the market Comulate developed and leads.See attached file. ...

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