Educators Mutual Insurance Company

Volume 55 · 55 F.T.C. 623

Citation: 55 F.T.C. 623
Docket: 6308
Complaint: 1955-03-11
Decision: 1958-10-22
Document type: dismissal
Case type: consumer protection
Statutes: FTC Act (section 5)
Industry: insurance
Outcome: dismissed
Commission counsel: F1" ancis C. MayeT
Respondent counsel: ington, D
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Educators Mutual Insurance Company, 55 F.T.C. 623 (1958). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v055-0117

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Order status: set_aside Commission order action. Sunset may be extended by the latest qualifying federal-court complaint alleging an order violation; complaints, dismissal/appeal outcomes, and respondent-specific extensions are not fully tracked.

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IN THE MATTER OF EDUCATORS MUTUAL INSURANCE COlVIFANY ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket 6308. CO?J11)laint, Mm' 1955-0?'de?' , Oct. , 1958 Order dismissing, for lack of jurisdiction, foliowing the ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in Federal Tmde Commission v. Natio1wl Casualty Co?1lpa,ny and Fede?' aZ nade Commission v. The Ame1'ican Hospital and Life lnsw'ance Company, 357 U.S. 560, complaint charging an insurance company in Lancaster, Pa., with false advertising of its health and accident policies.

Before M'f. F'fanJc Bier hearing examiner. Mr. F1" ancis C. Mayer for the Commission. PeTlman, of Wash- MT. A. Alvis Layne, Jr. and Mr. T. S. ington, D. , for respondent.

FINAL ORDER This matter having come on to be heard upon re~pondent' appeal from the hearing examiner s initial decision filed prior to the pet c'u'fiant opinion of the United States Supreme Court in the combined cases of Federal TTade Coml1tission v. National Casualty CO1npa,ny and Federal. TTade Co?J11n,ission v. The A'merican B ospital a,nd Life Insu,rance Com.1)((XlY, 357 U.S. 560 (decided ~June 30 1958) ; and Counsel for respondent additionally having filed a motion to dismiss the complaint, based primarily upon the aforesaid decision of the Supreme Court, which motion is unopposed by counsel supporting the complaint; and The Commission having considered respondent' s motion to dismiss 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 o1'dered That the initial decision herein be, and it hereby , vacated and set aside.

It is further ordered That the complaint herein be, and it hereby is, dismissed.

Decision 55 F.

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