Idaho lawsuit accuses online ‘e-service’ companies of fraud, deception 
POSTED: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 02:24 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, fraud, lawsuit, Stores Online, The Tax Club
In 2009, in the same month she was to turn 66, Fran Savage walked into a seminar at the Grove Hotel, anxious to learn about starting an online business that could help with her fixed-income retirement. Hosted by Stores Online, a web entity that sells a one-size-fits-all online business model with a free website, the [...]
St. Luke’s hit with second antitrust lawsuit, this one by government
POSTED: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 03:09 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: antitrust, Federal Trade Commission, Idaho Attorney General's Office, lawsuit, Saint Alphonsus, St. Luke's Health Systems, Treasure Valley Hospital
The Federal Trade Commission and the Idaho attorney general have jumped into an antitrust case against St. Luke’s, Idaho’s largest health care provider. A similar case had been filed in late 2012 by St. Luke’s competitors in Nampa, Saint Alphonsus and Treasure Valley Hospital. The new lawsuit, filed March 12 in federal court for the [...]
Hospitals go to court over acquisition of medical group
POSTED: Monday, November 12, 2012 at 06:42 PM PTBY: Sean Olson
Tags: Federal Trade Commission, Idaho Attorney General's Office, lawsuit, monopoly antitrust, Saint Alphonsus, St. Luke's Health Systems, Treasure Valley Hospital
Saint Alphonsus Health System and Treasure Valley Hospital have taken legal action to stop St. Luke’s Health System from acquiring the largest physician group in Nampa, alleging the acquisition would lead to a monopoly. In a federal court complaint filed Nov. 12, Saint Alphonsus and TVH allege that a St. Luke’s takeover of the Saltzer [...]
Plaintiffs sue over ‘all natural’ claims
POSTED: Monday, April 23, 2012 at 10:30 AM PTBY: Correy Stephenson
Tags: Ben & Jerry's, ConAgra, Federal Trade Commission, Food and Drug Administration, Frito-Lay, Kashi, Snapple, Trader Joes
A number of recent lawsuits allege that companies are falsely advertising their products as “all natural” or “100 percent” natural when they in fact contain synthetic ingredients or genetically modified organisms. Defendants include major brands such as Ben & Jerry’s, ConAgra, Frito-Lay, Kashi, Naked Juice, Snapple and Trader Joe’s. “These cases are being filed every [...]
