Company charged with allowing its money transfer system to be used for fraud MoneyGram International, Inc. will pay $18 million in consumer redress ...
Pre-Paid Legal Services: FTC may sue over false marketing of ID theft protection program Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., a network of independent law ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Intel Corp was sued by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who accused the world's largest chipmaker of threatening computer makers and paying billions of dollars in kickbacks to maintain its market dominance. The lawsuit accuses Intel of ...
CVS Caremark says FTC is looking into business practices, says it has not broken antitrust law The Federal Trade Commission is investigating some of CVS Caremark Corp.'s business practices, the company said Thursday. The drugstore chain and pharmacy benefits manager did not ...
Plan would require companies that offer free credit reports to provide free reports We've all seen the TV commercial featuring the guys in silly costumes singing about free credit reports. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer calls such ads a "long-running scam" and ...
Enforcement of the Red Flags Rules has been put off again -- this time until next summer, at the request of Congress. The Federal Trade Commission again is pushing back the deadline for financial institutions and creditors to comply with the Red ...
Merck's $41 billion purchase of Schering-Plough receives FTC, some foreign antitrust approvals Merck & Co. and Schering-Plough Corp. said Thursday they have won merger approval from the Federal Trade Commission and antitrust regulators in Switzerland and Canada. Merck hopes to close its ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. House of Representatives panel approved a bill on Thursday to create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency to oversee mortgages and other financial products while strengthening the pro-consumer Federal Trade Commission. The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted ...
AP sources: FTC could look into health insurance industry under House bill Health care legislation headed for a vote in the House would give the Federal Trade Commission authority to look into the health insurance industry at its own initiative, Democratic officials ...
How to plan productive meetings; Restoring your good name in the face of identity theft TIME FOR ANOTHER MEETING: Do your weekly meetings feel like a waste of time? More importantly, does your company have that kind of time to waste? "In ...
A new bill, passed unanimously by the U.S. House of Representatives this week, would exclude health care, accounting and legal firms with 20 or fewer employees from complying with the Red Flags Rules. The U.S. House of Representatives this week unanimously passed ...
The Federal Trade Commission contends that ChoicePoint did not properly implement security improvements after its milestone 2005 data breach. The Federal Trade Commission has punished ChoicePoint for another data breach after the agency concluded the data broker failed to properly implement security ...
