Combined Insurance Company of America
Volume 55 · 55 F.T.C. 909
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COMBINED INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA 909
Order
IN THE MATTER OF COMBINED INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA
ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT
Docket 6280. Complaint, Dec. 28, 1954—Order, Dec. 22, 1958
Order vacating and setting aside initial decision on jurisdictional grounds, following the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the combined cases of Federal Trade Commission v. National Casualty Co. and Federal Trade Commission v. The American Hospital and Life Insurance Co., 357 U.S. 560, and dismissing complaint charging a Chicago insurance company with falsely advertising its accident and health insurance policies.
Before Mr. Loren H. Laughlin, hearing examiner. Mr. Roslyn D. Young, Jr. and Mr. Paul R. Dixon for the Commission.
Arrington & Healy, of Chicago, Ill., for respondent.
FINAL ORDER
This matter having come on to be heard upon the appeals of counsel supporting the complaint and of counsel for respondent from the hearing examiner's initial decision filed prior to the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in the combined cases of Federal Trade Commission v. National Casualty Company and Federal Trade Commission v. The American Hospital and Life Insurance Company, 357 U.S. 560 (1958) ; and The Commission having considered said appeals 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 July 15, 1957, be, and it hereby is, vacated and set aside. It is further ordered, That the complaint herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.
Complaint 55 F.T.C.
IN THE MATTER OF
HUNT-MARQUARDT, INC., ET AL.
CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF SEC. 2(f) OF THE CLAYTON ACT
Docket 6765. Complaint, Apr. 5, 1957—Decision, Dec. 23, 1958
Consent order requiring 14 New York and New England jobbers of automotive replacement parts and their buying organization, which served merely as a bookkeeping device to exert their combined bargaining power, to cease violating Sec. 2(f) of the Clayton Act by soliciting and accepting illegal price advantages from suppliers which were not available to their competitors.
COMPLAINT
The Federal Trade Commission having reason to believe that the parties respondent named in the caption hereof and hereinafter more particularly designated and described, since June 19, 1936 have violated and are now violating the provisions of Subsection (f), Section 2 of the Clayton Act, as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act, approved June 19, 1936 (U.S.C. Title 15, Sec. 13) hereby issues its complaint stating its charges with respect thereto as follows:
PARAGRAPH 1. (1) Respondent Hunt-Marquardt, Inc., is a corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with its principal office and place of business located at 244 Brighton Avenue, Boston, Mass.
The following respondent individuals are the officers of said respondent corporation:
Alfred S. Hunt, president.
Arthur C. Marquardt, treasurer.
H. Nelson Hartstone, secretary.
(2) Respondents George G. Mellor and Raymond W. Mellor are individuals and copartners trading as Mellor's Auto Parts with their principal office and place of business located at 134 Broad Street, Providence, R.I.
(3) Respondent Standard Auto Gear Co. is a corporation organized, existing and doing business under and by virtue of the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, with its principal office and place of business located at 531 Columbia Road, Dorchester, Mass.