In settling the case, the companies, which admitted no wrongdoing, agreed not to make deceptive claims in the future.

To the Editor: You describe the administration's deceptive claim of a $10 trillion shortfall in the Social Security program.

How to spot potentially deceptive claims or business practices some private companies may use to get your student loan business.

These are examples of possibly deceptive claims.

These efforts are necessary to rid the marketplace of false and deceptive claims.

Then there is the deceptive claim, "Made with pure vegetable shortening."

That agreement came after a Dallas jury ruled that both companies had made deceptive claims.

I consider it a public health hazard when people are lured into using bogus treatments based on deceptive or fraudulent medical claims.

Until last year no Federal agency was doing much to regulate deceptive claims.

Though this is probably a deceptive and possibly intentionally ambiguous claim.