Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association
Volume 55 · 55 F.T.C. 1064
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Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Association, 55 F.T.C. 1064 (1959). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v055-0196
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IN THE MATTER OF MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH & ACCIDENT ASSOCIATION ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 6248. Complaint, Oct. 14, 1954—Order, Jan. 16, 1959 Dismissal, for lack of jurisdiction following decision 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), of complaint charging an insurance company in Omaha, Nebr., with misrepresenting the benefits provided by its accident and health policies. Before Mr. Abner E. Lipscomb, hearing examiner. Mr. Paul R. Dixon, Mr. William A. Somers and Mr. R. D. Young, Jr. for the Commission.
Mr. L. E. Thorngren, of Omaha, Nebr., Mr: Horace E. Pascal, of New York City, and Mr. Burton K. Wheeler, of Washington, D. C., 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 and oral argument in support of and in opposition thereto; and The Commission having considered the record and the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in its per curiam opinion of June 30, 1958, in the combined cases of Federal Trade Commission v. National Casualty Company and The American Hospital and Life Insurance Company, 357 U.S. 560 (1958), entered subsequent to the filing of the instant appeal, and having concluded that the complaint herein should be dismissed: It is ordered, That the initial decision herein, filed February 11, 1957, be, and it hereby is, vacated and set aside. It is further ordered, That the complaint herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.
Commissioner Kern not participating.
JANTZEN, INC. 1065 Complaint