Ohio Ambulance Network, Inc.
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A proposal to create a network of thirteen licensed ambulance and ambulette service providers ("members") to offer scheduled, non-emergency ambulance and ambulette services throughout northeast and...
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FTC Obtains Relief for Health Care Consumers in California County
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a settlement of charges that the proposed acquisition by Tenet Healthcare Corp. of OrNda Healthcorp would threaten competition for hospital care in San...
Announced Actions for January 28, 1997
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Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period on each, the Commission has made final consent agreements with the following entities. The Commission action makes the...
Defendants in FTC Medical Billing Software Business Opportunity Case To Pay $146,750 for Consumer Redress
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Marquette, Inc., a Georgia based company, and two of its officers, have agreed to pay $146,750 in consumer redress as settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges announced as part of "Project...
Ad Agency, Work-at-Home Promoter To Settle FTC Charges; Infomercial Contained Unproven Earnings Claims
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Hawthorne Communications, Inc., an Iowa advertising agency, will pay a $25,000 civil penalty for violating a 1994 Federal Trade Commission order requiring it to have substantiation for advertising...
Announced Actions for January 24, 1997
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Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity. The Commission action makes the consent order...
Marketer of "Nightsafe" Eyeglasses Agrees To Settle Charges of Unsubstantiated Claims of Safety While Driving at Night
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Nationwide Syndications, Inc., of Barrington, Illinois, and company president Thomas W. Karon, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated claims...
Immigration Attorney Charged with Misleading Thousands of People Applying for Visas
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An immigration attorney who markets his professional services to immigrants who are interested in obtaining “green cards” through the State Department’s “green card lottery” has been charged by the...
Two More FTC Cases in Car Area Target Misleading Ads with Unclear, Inaccurate Terms
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The Herb Gordon Auto World dealerships in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Huling Bros. dealerships in Seattle, Washington, are the latest automobile advertisers to come under Federal Trade Commission...
FTC Announces Project To Follow Global and Innovation-Based Competition Hearings
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The Federal Trade Commission announced today "The Joint Venture Project" to clarify and update antitrust policies regarding joint ventures and other forms of competitor collaborations. The Joint...
Pizzeria Uno Restaurant Chain Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
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The operators of the nationwide Pizzeria Uno restaurant chain have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that advertising touting a line of thin crust pizzas as "low fat" was false and...
FTC Announces Results of the First Year of the Funeral Rule Offenders Program
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Compliance with the Funeral Rule has dramatically improved among funeral homes within the past year, the Federal Trade Commission staff announced today. Of the 239 funeral homes visited in 1996 as...
Announced Actions for January 17, 1997
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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 Commission...
FTC Has Announced Changes in Clayton Act Threshold Figures
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The Federal Trade Commission has announced changes in the two threshold figures that define when it is unlawful for an individual to serve as an officer or director of two or more competing...
FTC Case Targets Deceptive Selling of Living Trusts
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The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated settlement agreements with two companies that sold more than 3,000 living trusts to elderly consumers in 43 states in conjunction with memberships in the...
FTC Negotiates Settlement with Mailing House over Allegedly Fraudulent Promotions
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Marketing Response Group, Inc., a Tampa, Florida-based mailing house, and related defendants named in a January 1996 Federal Trade Commission case for allegedly assisting fraudulent telemarketers have...
Announced Actions for January 14, 1997
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...
Announced Actions for January 10, 1997
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following actions. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval for a transaction from the following...
Red Apple To Pay $600,000 Civil Penalty for Failing To Divest Manhattan Supermarkets as Required by FTC
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Federal Trade Commission attorneys have filed in federal district court an agreement the Commission reached with Red Apple Companies, Inc. and its chairman, John Catsimatidis, and two other firms...
Smokeless Tobacco Advertising and Promotional Expenditures and Revenues Up, According to FTC Report to Congress
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Nearly $126 million was spent on advertising and promotion for smokeless tobacco products in 1994 -- an increase of $6.7 million from 1993 -- and more than $127 million was spent in 1995, according to...
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