The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), State of California, and Utah Division of Consumer Protection recently filed a sweeping complaint against telemedicine company Hims & Hers Health, Inc., using federal and state consumer-protection laws to assert allegations against its direct-to-consumer telehealth business. The case is notable as regulators are not relying on a traditional health-privacy statute but rather general consumer-protection laws to challenge health-data advertising practices and aspects of Hims’s subscription model.
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The Boston Bar Association hosted its fifth annual White Collar Crime Conference on May 2, 2024, featuring prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts (the Office) and the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General (the AG’s Office) as well as lawyers from the defense bar.