Ensure nutrition drinks class action lawsuit overview:ย
- Who: Condalisa LeGrand and Larissa Bates filed a class action lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories.ย
- Why: LeGrand and Bates claim Abbott misleadingly represents that its Ensure nutrition drinks are healthy despite them adding up to 22 grams of sugar into them.ย
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.ย
Abbott Laboratories misrepresents that its Ensure nutrition drinks are healthy, despite their sugar content scientifically proving otherwise, a new class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiffs Condalisa LeGrand and Larissa Bates claim Abbott adds up to 22 grams of sugar into its Ensure nutrition drinks, in spite of advertising them as โComplete, Balanced Nutrition for everyday health.โย
LeGrand and Bates argue Abbottโs representations of its Ensure nutrition drinks as healthy are โfalse and misleadingโ due to โa vast body of scientific evidence demonstrating that consuming sugar sweetened beverages harms rather than supports overall health.โย
โIn light of this sugar content and the scientific evidence, Abbottโs representations that the Ensure Nutrition Drinks are balanced, nutritious, and healthy, are false and misleading,โ states the Ensure class action.ย
LeGrand and Bates want to represent a nationwide class and New York and California subclasses of consumers who have purchased for personal or household use any of Abbottโs Ensure nutrition drinks.ย
Ensure nutrition drinks allegedly not healthy due to sugar content
LeGrand and Bates claim Abbott is guilty of unjust enrichment and intentional and negligent misrepresentation, and in violation of, among other things, New York General Business Law, and Californiaโs Consumers Legal Remedies Act.ย
Plaintiffs are demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of compensatory and punitive damages for themselves and all class members.ย
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged last month that there were shortcomings in its response to the nationwide baby formula shortage caused by a bacterial contamination at an Abbott Nutrition factory.
Have you purchased Abbottโs Ensure nutrition drinks? Let us know in the comments!ย
The plaintiffs are represented by Jack Fitzgerald, Paul K. Joseph, Melanie Persinger, Trevor M. Flynn, and Caroline S. Emhardt of Fitzgerald Joseph LLP.ย
The Ensure nutrition drinks class action lawsuit is LeGrand, et al. v. Abbott Laboratories, Case No. 3:22-cv-05815, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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585 thoughts onEnsure class action alleges nutrition drinks falsely advertised as healthy food choice
I have been drinking Ensure since I was a teenager, which is 20 years now. My blood sugars have been high for years and I have an autoimmune disease. Iโd like to join the class action suit.
I have been drinking Ensure since I was a teenager, which is 20 years now. My blood sugars have been high for years and I have am autoimmune disease. Iโd like to join the class action suit.
O have been drinking Ensure since I was a teenager, which is 20 years now. My blood sugars have been high for years and I have am autoimmune disease. Iโd like to join the class action suit.
I gave my dying mother and step father(as well as the hospital) this every single day multiple times a day for meal replacements!!! I never wouldโve if I knew they were falsely advertising the benefits !
After my heart failure I was told to watch my salt & sugar intake. I assumed by the advertising it would be the healthy direction to turn to. My mother was told by her Dr to drink ensures because of a digestive issue she was having. I can imagine now what this has contributed to her issue rather than help her. We would like to be added to this suit too!
That was on my diet by a doctor at the mental hospital l didnโt know that it was a lawsuit behind it. Does it matter what state that they gave it to you or where you at now on this lawsuit. I leave and go the the mental hospital in Alexander Louisiana. A l had the drink after my meds.
My father has bone cancer and I have been feeding him this for years. His health is declining and I am in therapy. Why lie to us?
Yes, I have crohns disease & have purchased ensure many times.
We fed my mother in law Ensure every single day while she was struggling with dementia and her health just kept declining. That sugar was so bad for her and her brain.
Please add me I drink this everyday because supposedly are healthy
Shocked!!!! I religiously drank them for five yrs, hoping to get enough vitamin supplements, due to thinking Iโm saving on tons of $$$$$ by not spending on vitamins. ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐๐๐