Commission Actions

William J. Baer, Director of the FTC's Bureau of Competition has appointed David A. Balto as Deputy Assistant Director of the Competition Bureau's Office of Policy & Evaluation. The Office of Policy &...

The Federal Trade Commission and Weight Watchers International, Inc. have agreed to settle a case filed by the Commission in 1993 concerning the substantiation for advertising claims made by the...

Beginning tomorrow an employer must get a job applicant's written permission before obtaining a copy of the applicant's credit report. Also, for the first time, creditors and others that furnish...

Many consumers are concerned about the privacy, accuracy and fairness of their credit records. A newly-amended federal law that goes into effect on Sept. 30 will give consumers major new rights that...

The Federal Trade Commission today ended its administrative challenge to a hospital merger in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after concluding that further litigation in the case is not in the public interest...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will host a Press Conference to announce a major fraud fighting and consumer education initiative, "Project Mailbox," a public/private partnership to tackle mass...

Against the backdrop of a "remarkable" merger wave in the United States, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today offered a group of business executives his analysis of two recent high...

Majors Medical Supply, Inc., of Boca Raton, Florida, and its two corporate officers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false claims about the income franchisees...

A federal district court in Atlanta has temporarily halted what the Federal Trade Commission has alleged to be a deceptive telemarketing scheme offering credit card protection services to consumers...