Commission Actions

The FTC has approved a Federal Register notice amending Commission Rule 1.98 to adjust its civil penalty dollar amounts in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990...

The FTC has approved the filing of a comment with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PA PUC) concerning the PA PUC’s implementation plan for its Energy Efficiency and Conservation Program...

Inverness Medical Innovations, Inc., has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it acted illegally to maintain its monopoly on consumer pregnancy tests in the United States when it...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued an interim report to Congress under Section 319 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, which requires the FTC to study the accuracy and...

The Federal Trade Commission today approved a notice adopting interim final rules amending Parts 3 and 4 of the agency’s Rules of Practice, and requesting public comments within 30 days of the date...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman William E. Kovacic announced today that Michael R. Baye, director of the Bureau of Economics for the past year and a half, will leave the FTC on December 31 to return...

CompuCredit Corporation, a company marketing Visa and MasterCard credit cards to consumers in the subprime credit market, has agreed to reverse fees charged to eligible consumers’ accounts to settle...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal district court has entered orders settling charges against three telemarketers who allegedly duped consumers, most of whom were elderly, into...

Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd.’s has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that its proposed $8.9 billion acquisition of rival generic drugmaker Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. would be...