Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

REPORTS

1985 – Life Insurance Products and Consumer Information

1979 – Life Insurance Cost Disclosure

1979, July 11 – Testimony of Michael Pertschuk, CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION

1919 – 1919 FTC Protecting the Public by Informing the Investor 10p: Betterment of Life Insurance Service 10p

Hearings

1979,  JULY 10 AND OCTOBER 17 – FTC STUDY OF LIFE INSURANCE COST DISCLOSURE, UNITED STATES SENATE, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Cannon, Serial No. 96-65

MEDIA

1979 – Aetna Hits FTC Insurance Study As ‘Reckless Misrepresentation‘ – Washington Post, Larry Kramer

1979, July 20 – The Whole Truth About Life Insurance – New York Times,

GPO-CRECB-1980-pt2-6-2

1980 GOV Federal Register Cannon Metzenbaum Durkin FTC MF p2368 1980-GOV-Federal-Register-Congress-Senate-cost-comparison-p2382 FTC Annual Reports
From 1916 to 1998, the FTC issued annual reports to Congress. The reports review…Report served as the Commission’s Annual Report
1980/06/08 – Who Owns Congress, By Mark Green 
PEOPLE

Michael P. Lynch
Michael Pertschuk
Robert J. Mackay 

References

1980 – Congress Votes FTC Life Insurance GPO-CRECB-1980-pt2-6-2

1987 – AAA Journal – STATEMENT 1987-1, COMMENTS OF THE COMMITTEE ON LIFE INSURANCE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ACTUARIES ON THE 1985 FTC REPORT ON LIFE INSURANCE COST DISCLOSURE

FTC links

FTC disclosure evaluation research from the archives

Papers

2014, Transparently Opaque: Understanding the Lack of Transparency in Insurance Consumer Protection, By Daniel Schwarcz, <LINK> FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION DECISIONS
FINDINGS, OPINIONS, AND ORDERS

https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/commission_decision_volumes/volume-93/vol93complete.pdf

Commission Decision Volumes

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/commission-decision-volumes

Cases and Proceedings

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings