La Salle Casualty Company

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IN THE MATTER OF LA SALLE CASUALTY COMPANY ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 6246. CmnpIG'int. , Oct. lit, 1954-0Tdc' , Jan. , 1.959 Dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction following decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the combined cases of FedC1"al Tmde Commission National Casu((Uy Company and Fede1ul Trade Commi.ssion v. The A?J€1'ican Ho."!pital and Life Insu?' (lllce Company, 357 U. S. 5GO (J958), of complaint charging a Chicago insurance company with falsely advertising the benefits provided by its health and accident policies. Before lVh'. LOTen H. Laughlin hearing examiner. Mr. Ro/Je.rt R. Sills and Mr. F,' ede1'ick MclVIanns for the Commission.

Mr. Zachary D. Ford, h. and jlh'. George F. Em'ntt of Chicago, 111., for respondent.

FINAL ORDER This matter having come before the Commission upon the appeal of respondent from the hearing examiner s initial decision and upon briefs in support of and in opposition thereto, oral argument not having been requested; and The Commission having considered the record and the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United St.at.es in its per curiam. opinion of June 30, 1958 , in the combined cases of Federal Trade Co/n1nission v. lVational Casualty Company and The Am,e1'ican Hospital and Life Insurance Company, 357 U. S. 560 (1958), entered subsequent to the fiJjng of the instant appeaJ, and having concluded t.hat the complaint herein should be dismissed; It is O1'dend That the init.ial decision herein, filed February 1957, be, and it hereby is, vacated and set aside. It is further ordend That the complaint. herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.

Order 55 F.