By Jennifer Archie, Scott Jones and Alex Stout
In a stunning victory, an administrative law judge has recommended the dismissal of a long-pending US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) complaint against LabMD, Inc. (LabMD). In a strongly worded opinion in a case that had become highly politicized following 2014 congressional hearings, ALJ D. Michael Chappell found that the agency had failed to satisfy its burden of proving that LabMD had engaged in unfair trade practices by providing insufficient data security.