The Federal Trade Commission today initiated an action against the state dental board in North Carolina, alleging that it is harming competition by blocking non-dentists from providing teeth-whitening services in the state. The FTC charged that the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners (the “Dental Board”) has impermissibly ordered non-dentists to stop providing teeth-whitening services, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
FTC Settlement Orders Ban More Than A Dozen Marketers from Selling Mortgage Relief Services; Repeat Offender Ordered to Pay $11.4 Million for Contempt
As part of the agency’s continuing crackdown on scams that prey on financially distressed homeowners, the Federal Trade Commission announced legal actions against more than a dozen marketers accused of pitching bogus mortgage modification or foreclosure relief services. FTC settlement orders ban 16 marketers from the mortgage modification or foreclosure relief business. The promoter of […]
FTC Testifies on the Impact of Two Recent Supreme Court Cases on Antitrust Enforcement in Regulated Industries
For Your Information June 15, 2010 In testimony today before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, the Federal Trade Commission described the impact of two recent Supreme Court cases – Verizon v. Trinko and Credit Suisse v. Billing – on antitrust enforcement in regulated industries. Howard Shelanski, the Deputy Director for […]
FTC Chairman Addresses American Medical Association
In a speech to the American Medical Association in Chicago, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz announced that the FTC will hold a public workshop this fall on health care competition policy, payment reform, and the new models for delivering health care that seek to incentivize high-quality, cost-effective care. The new health care reform law […]
DADvice: Stuff Dads Really Say
This Father’s Day, the Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, has compiled some of Dear Old Dad’s favorite sayings, and posted them at www.ftc.gov/dad. What words of wisdom can you take from these quotable quotes? “I had to walk to school. Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill both ways.” The geography of this never […]
At FTC’s Request, Court Halts Massive Robocall Operation
The Federal Trade Commission’s work to stop deceptive pre-recorded “robocalls” took another step forward today as a federal court halted a major telemarketing operation that made millions of illegal phone calls pitching worthless extended auto warranties and credit card interest rate-reduction programs. At the request of the FTC, a federal court judge in Chicago has […]
Court Puts Brakes on Company That Deceptively Pitched Extended Auto Warranties
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has halted a Florida-based telemarketing operation that the FTC alleged was deceptively promoting so-called “extended auto warranties” to consumers nationwide. The court has issued a temporary restraining order against Fereidoun “Fred” Khalilian and his company, The Dolce Group Worldwide, LLC, d/b/a My Car Solutions. Khalilian is […]
FTC Urges Consumers to Watch Out for Scams Related to Gulf Oil Spill
As the nation follows news of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, so do scammers. The Federal Trade Commission issued an alert urging consumers and businesses to watch out for con artists trying to take advantage of the oil spill in the gulf and to report their experiences to federal and state authorities. […]
U-Haul and its Parent Company Settle FTC Charges That They Invited Competitors to Fix Prices on Truck Rentals
U-Haul International, Inc. and its parent company today settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the FTC Act by inviting U-Haul’s closest competitor, Avis Budget Group, Inc., to collude on prices for truck rentals. U-Haul and Budget control more than 70 percent of the “do-it-yourself” one-way truck rental business in the United States. If […]
FTC Testifies Before Senate Antitrust Subcommittee on Commission’s Work to Promote Competition and Benefit Consumers in a Dynamic Economy
In testimony today before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights, the Federal Trade Commission detailed its work to promote competition and benefit consumers, such as ending “pay-for-delay” pharmaceutical agreements, preventing anticompetitive mergers, revising the guidelines that the FTC and the Justice Department use to assess horizontal mergers, and […]