SUBCOMMITTEE ON FRAUDS AND MISREPRE-
SENTATIONS AFFECTING THE ELDERLY

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UNITED STATES SENATE

EIGHTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS

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CONTENTS

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Opening statement of the chairman_
James McI. Henderson, General Counsel, Federal Trade Commission;
accompanied by John Lexcen, assistant; James Murray, Assistant Direc-
tor, Bureau of Deceptive Practices; Robert Beller, attorney, Bureau of
Industry Guidance; and Fletcher Cohn, Assistant General Counsel for
Legislation...
Representative Ronald Brooks Cameron, 25th District, California-
Charles A. James, assistant attorney general, Sacramento, Calif
Robert R. Peacock, secretary-director, New Jersey Real Estate Commis-

sion....

William R. Morris, National Association of Insurance Commissioners,
presented by T. Nelson Parker. --

J. Edwin Larson, State treasurer and insurance commissioner, Florida,
presented by Walter E. Rountree, general counsel, Tallahassee; accom-
panied by Frank Alexander, chief, administrative department.
Sherwood Colburn, partner, insurance firm of Baron, Colburn & Colburn,
Loren A. Hicks, president, North Broward Senior Citizens Club, Inc., and
treasurer, Florida State Council for Senior Citizens, Pompano Beach,

Detroit, Mich..!!

Fla...

Kenneth Williamson, associate director, American Hospital Association,
and director, Washington Service Bureau.

STATEMENTS

Hicks, Loren A., president, North Broward Senior Citizens Club, Pompano

Beach, Fla...

Layne, A. Alvis, general counsel, Association of Insurance Advertisers..

Leisure Village, Lakewood, N.J.

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Ohio State Department of Insurance, William R. Morris, director..--
Owen, Jack, executive vice president and director, New Jersey Hospital

Association...

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Addendum, deceptive claims in mail-order insurance advertising..
Appendix A. Statutes regulating insurance advertising adopted in the

various States..

"Balking the Unauthorized Insurers," Detroit Free Press, editorial..
Condon-Russo bill, New York State Assembly, amending insurance laws on

unauthorized insurers.

attorney general..

Federal Trade Commission, guides for the mail-order insurance industry..
Insurance by mail, series of articles by Frank J. Kelley, Michigan State
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, report and interpreta-
tion of rules governing insurance advertising--
New Jersey Real Estate Commission; letter dated July 16, 1964, to com-
Report on health insurance, California State Assembly.

mittee

Senior Citizens Services Division, Florida Insurance Department. -

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