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.
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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
I have turned to ensure many times throughout the years because I could not tolerate solid foods and I am very disappointed and angry to find this information out. So when I thought I was having something healthy, it was all a lie.
The date at the heading of this arrival says October, 2022.
I trust this was intended to say 2023!
No, this was news a year ago. You can go back and read the comments; they started in 2022
As of 10-31-23 I have purchased quite a bit of Ensure.Donna Faulkner
I have had 2 surgeries for GIST cancer in my stomach Drank so much by doctors orders!
My daughter eats through a g tube. Since 18 they have prescribed her ensure. She is 22 now. Her last blood draw showed a high tend blood sugar level. I was stumped because she doesn’t eat food. This is probably why. Unbelievable!😡
My husband’s mother fed him loads of this stuff. And they sold it inside the hospital where he was treated. He was told he needed it to maintain weight with his Follicular lymphoma stage 4 diagnosis. He didn’t drink too much of it, Thank God. But it made me angry as I was on a ketogenic diet trying to convince them that was healthier. She didn’t know any better. I don’t blame her. But the advertising and the misinformation that it’s healthy needs to stop!!!
Given a Doctors advice to utilize this product. With all of the sugars it’s just like injecting rat poison.
My mum is was dying with cancer and given this rubbish! By her dr!! She was on a mainly keto diet!! She’d go crazy if she knew it was full of sugar!! I’m so angry for her!!!
I used to drink tese several times a week, sometimes once or twice a day because I couldn’t get enough protein and vitamins due to working. Now I am diabetic. These definitely contributed to my diabetes diagnosis. I just learned recently how much sugar was in them and I had no idea. Makes me very angry.
I was in a cancer home recovering when they offered ensure for free. I drank several of these not knowing the health ramications.
I used Ensure and am disappointed in Abbott.