Ensure nutrition drinks class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Condalisa LeGrand and Larissa Bates filed a class action lawsuit against Abbott Laboratories.
- 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.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court.
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 “Complete, Balanced Nutrition for everyday health.”
LeGrand and Bates argue Abbott’s representations of its Ensure nutrition drinks as healthy are “false and misleading” due to “a vast body of scientific evidence demonstrating that consuming sugar sweetened beverages harms rather than supports overall health.”
“In light of this sugar content and the scientific evidence, Abbott’s representations that the Ensure Nutrition Drinks are balanced, nutritious, and healthy, are false and misleading,” states the Ensure class action.
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 Abbott’s Ensure nutrition drinks.
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 California’s Consumers Legal Remedies Act.
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.
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 Abbott’s Ensure nutrition drinks? Let us know in the comments!
The plaintiffs are represented by Jack Fitzgerald, Paul K. Joseph, Melanie Persinger, Trevor M. Flynn, and Caroline S. Emhardt of Fitzgerald Joseph LLP.
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
Had major GI surgery 4/23. Was given Ensure at the hospital. Also had it when I recovered at home. 11/23 I need more major GI surgery. GI surgeon gave me a dozen Ensure high protein to drink a week prior to the surgery. I expect I will be on a liquid diet of this stuff afterwards. It is full of chemicals and bioengineered ingredients besides all the sugar. I am looking for a healthier alternative. But you have Drs handing this out before major surgery. Then dispensing it in the hospital during recovery.
Add me to the lawsuit. Have purchased and don’t like the sugar or the artificial sweetener either (the one that’s low sugar for diabetics). It needs to have less sugar or a natural substitute like Stevia or monkfruit. A lot of people are fooled by their claims. I know SO many people drinking Ensure.
My mom has been drinking ensure for years. She is now 81 and in hospice. She was healthy all her life, never on medication. Never had any surgery. No diabetes. No heart problems. Ans in a matter of one month she went from losing her mobility on one side to hospice – due to mass in brain.
Add me
Ever since my mother and father been drinking and sure one of them has gotten diabetes
Please add me!
Holy Moly,
Im 44 years old and started drinking that stuff when i was 7 years old until i was 16. Add me to law suit as well
Please add me too. I’ve been buying it for my elderly parents.
I’ve been drinking ensure for years.
I have purchased Ensure