Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation, settling charges that the company's $3 billion merger with Healthtrust, Inc. -...

The settlement prohibits Body Wise from making false claims that a food, drug, or nutritional supplement helps users achieve or maintain weight loss without diet or exercise. It also bars...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a consent agreement with The Arizona Institute of Reproductive Medicine, Ltd. and its President, Robert H. Tamis, M.D., settling charges that...

Roche Holding Ltd. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1994 consent order to delete a provision that requires prior Commission approval of an acquisition of an interest...

Roche Holdings, Inc. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1990 consent order to delete a provision that requires prior Commission approval of an acquisition of an...

Beginning Jan. 1, 1996, franchisors who choose to use the Uniform Franchise Offering Circular (UFOC) to provide pre-purchase information to franchise buyers as required by the Federal Trade Commission...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged three manufacturers of add-on motor vehicle braking systems with making false and unsubstantiated advertising claims that their products are anti- lock braking...

Federal Trade Commission staff have advised the Eastern Ohio Physicians Organization, Inc. (EOPO), a multi-speciality physician organization to operate in northeastern Ohio and northwestern...

The remaining defendant named in a 1994 Federal Trade Commission lawsuit has agreed to pay $200,000 for consumer redress, and to post a bond of $1 million to protect future customers before marketing...

Rite Aid Corporation has entered into an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission under which it can acquire several Brooks retail pharmacies in Maine from Maxi Drug, Inc., pending completion of...

Federal Trade Commission staff has advised the Central Texas Medical Group (CTMG), an independent practitioners' association in Brownwood, Texas, that its proposed method of operating is unlikely to...

Starting October 2, American consumers denied health, life or disability insurance will have the right to know when confidential information about them was disclosed to insurers by the nation's...

S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. has petitioned the Federal Trade Commission to reopen and modify a 1993 order by terminating a provision that requires the company to obtain the FTC's approval for 10 years...

A federal district court judge has prohibited Debra Mink from ever offering, or assisting others to offer, employment services again. Mink was charged by the Federal Trade Commission in May with...

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to consent agreements with two marketers of ozone generators for use in homes and offices, settling charges that the marketers made...

Blenheim Expositions, Inc., a Winter Park, Florida-based company that produces a variety of franchise trade shows and expositions, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it...

Federal Trade Commission staff members have urged the Patent and Trademark Office to proceed cautiously in developing new guidelines for its handling of applications for software patents, to avoid...

The Federal Trade Commission has granted the request of the Foodservice Equipment Distributors Association (FEDA) to set aside an old order against it. The FTC did so in keeping with its "sunsetting"...

consumer representatives, enforcement officials, academics, and executives of leading computer, health care, financial services, entertainment, defense, manufacturing, packaged goods and advertising...

Federal Trade Commission staff has advised a network of 35 hematologist/oncologists in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-area that the network does not appear to violate federal antitrust laws. The for...