{"id":5842,"date":"2017-12-16T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/?p=5842"},"modified":"2017-12-16T15:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:53:38","slug":"medtronic-settles-deceptive-advertising-lawsuit-for-12m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/medtronic-settles-deceptive-advertising-lawsuit-for-12m\/","title":{"rendered":"Medtronic Settles Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit for $12M"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Medtronic Settles Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit for $12M<\/h2>\n<p class=\"article-block\"><span class=\"reg-article\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.raps.org\/Regulatory-Focus\/News\/2017\/12\/13\/29047\/Medtronic-Settles-Deceptive-Advertising-Lawsuit-for-12M\/\">Zachary Brennan<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>State attorneys general in Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Illinois and Washington on Wednesday announced a $12 million multi-state settlement with Medtronic to resolve claims the company deceptively marketed one of its devices known as Infuse.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"popup_7TLM_Cheat_Sheet\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#popup_7TLM_Cheat_Sheet_modal\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/images\/button_banner-7TLM_Cheat_Sheet.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The complaint alleged that Medtronic used deceptive company-sponsored scientific literature to convey false and misleading claims about the device\u2019s safety, comparative efficacy and superiority to expand its market.<\/p>\n<p>Read full article and learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raps.org\/Regulatory-Focus\/News\/2017\/12\/13\/29047\/Medtronic-Settles-Deceptive-Advertising-Lawsuit-for-12M\/\">Deceptive Advertising here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ftcguardian.com\/bw4uoy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ftcguardian\/images\/728x90-Un-vjy-FTC-GUARDIAN-banner-2.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s How To Make Sure You,\u00a0Your Business & Website Is FTC Compliant<\/h2>\n<p>By now it should be clear how important it is for you to be FTC compliant. 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Neither the author nor FTC Guardian, Inc. is endorsed by the Federal Trade Commission.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medtronic Settles Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit for $12M By\u00a0Zachary Brennan State attorneys general in Massachusetts, Oregon, California, Illinois and Washington on Wednesday announced a $12 million multi-state settlement with Medtronic to resolve claims the company deceptively marketed one of its devices &hellip;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,12,29],"tags":[21,28,36,15,30],"class_list":["post-5842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceptive-advertising","category-ftc-claims","category-ftc-compliance","category-truth-in-advertising","tag-deceptive-advertising","tag-federal-trade-commission","tag-ftc-claims","tag-ftc-compliance","tag-truth-in-advertising"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5855,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5842\/revisions\/5855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}