Girardian Insurance Company

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IN THE MATTER OF GIRARDIAN INSURANCE COMPANY, ET AL.

ORDER, ETC.. IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 6281. Complaint, Dec. 1951,.- rder, Nov. 12, 1958 Order dismissing on jurisdictional grounds, on the authority of the Supreme Court' s per curiam opinion in the combined cases of Federal T?'ade Commission v. National Casua.lty Company and Fede' ral Tntde Com?nission The American Hospital and Life Insm'ance Co?npany, 357 U.S. 560 complaint charging a Dallas, Tex., insurance company with falsely advertising the benefits of its accident and health insurance policies. Before Mr. J. Earl Cox hearing examiner. Mayer and Mr. Eugene Kaplan for the Mr. F'fancis C. Commission.

Blakley Walke1" of Dallas, Tex., for respondents. FINAL ORDER This matter having come on to be heard upon the appeal of counsel supporting the complaint from the hearing examiner initial decision dismissing the complaint upon the grounds of (1) lack of jurisdiction in the Commission; (2) failure of proof of the allegations of the complaint; and (3) discontinuance of the practices alleged to be unlawful; and It appearing that said appeal was filed prior to the per curiam combined cases of Federalopinion of the Supreme Court in the Tt' ade Commission v. National Casualty CO1npany and Federal Trade CO1nmission v. The An~erican Hospital and Life Insurance COtnpany, 357 U.S. 560 (decidedJune 30, 1958) ; and The Commission having concluded that the proceeding should be dismissed solely on jurisdictional grounds on the authority of the aforesaid Supreme Court decision:

It is ordered That the initial decision herein, filed January 20 1956, be, and it hereby is, vacated and set aside. It is further ordered That the complaint herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.

Commissioners Kern and Tait not participating. , Order 55 F.