Month: March 2023
FTC Takes Action Against Medical Clinic and its Owner for Alleged Unsubstantiated Claims its Treatment Could Cure Addiction and Disease
By Richard B. Newman |
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that it has taken action under the Opioid Addiction Recovery Fraud Prevention Act (OARFPA), suing a physician and a set of companies she controls that operate as AWAREmed Health & Wellness Resource Center, a medical clinic, for allegedly making a wide range of false or unsupported claims for addiction…
Richard Newman Quoted by Law.com on the FTC’s First Law Enforcement Challenging “Review Hijacking”
By Richard B. Newman |
FTC advertising compliance and defense lawyer Richard B. Newman was recently quoted in an article for Law.com titled “FTC Bags First Settlement in Probe of ‘Review Hijacking’ in E-Commerce.” The article discusses the FTC’s first case alleging “review hijacking,” in which a marketer steals or repurposes reviews of another product. The case involves a marketer…