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Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company

Volume 55 · 55 F.T.C. 529

Citation
55 F.T.C. 529
Docket
6244
Complaint
1954-10-14
Decision
1958-10-07
Document type
dismissal
Case type
consumer protection
Statutes
FTC Act (section 5)
Industry
insurance
Outcome
dismissed
Commission counsel
F1'ederick M cM anus
Respondent counsel
Ill
Source
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Guarantee Trust Life Insurance Company, 55 F.T.C. 529 (1958). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v055-0091

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IN THE l\1A TTER OF GUARANTEE TRUST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 624.4. Compla,int, Oct. 14, 1954-order, Oct. , 1958 Order dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, following the ruling of the Supreme Cou1' t of the United States in Federal T1"Clde Commission v. National Casualty Company and Fedej"(tl Trade Commission v. The A?11e?'ican Hospitch and Life Insurance Company, 357 U. S. 560, complaint charging a Chicago insurance company with false advertising- of its health and accident policies.

Before MT. Loren T. Laughlin hearing examiner. Mr. F1'ederick M cM anus for the Commission. Mr. Zachary D. Fonl, JT. and vValkins Meyers Chicago Ill., for respondent.

FINAL ORDER This matter having come on to be heard by the Commission upon respondent's appeal from the hearing examiner s initial decision filed prior to the per c1lriam opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the combined cases of Federal TTade CO'ln11~ission v. National Casualty Company and Federal Trade CO'lnn~issian v. The Al12erican Hospital mul Life Insu1' llce CO?npany, 357 s. 560 (decided June 30 1958) ; and The Commission having considered respondent's appeal and the record, and having concluded that this proceeding should be dismissed on jurisdictional grounds upon the authority of said ruling of the Supreme Court:

It is ordered That the initial decision herein, filed April 26, 1957 , be, and it hereby is, vacated and set aside. It is /urther ordered That the complaint herein be, and hereby is, dismissed.

Order 55 F.

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