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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Omg this is horrifying. My celiac diabetic son lives on this. No longer!!!
Interested for my husband who has had several gastric surgeries over the past ten years when the hospitals and or rehab centers served him Ensure.
My husband had severe Chrohn’s Disease and often lived for months drinking ensure only as he couldn’t eat solid food. He hated it but did so on his doctor’s recommendation. He passed at the age of 60.
My husband was encouraged to drink these during chemo and radiation treatment. Pure junk food but the FDA and Medical Associations are in cahoots with the maker of Ensure. There are much better options out there!
I had 2/3 pancreas cancer removed in 2021.I lost 40 and had to change my diet because of malasorption. My body needs high protein and avoid sugary,fried foods. I went through chemo therapy. I was told by doctors to continue drinking Ensure. I asked Medicare to assist with paying for ensure 2x daily. They said it us
My wife was readmitted to the hospital for a second time in 2019 after having a stroke, after running more tests they determined the stroke had come as a result of breast cancer from previous years and it had returned and metastasized into her lung as a clot. She lost her appetite and would only eat a spoon or two of food, so The doctors and nutritionists would order Ensure with every meal she received, and that’s all my wife would drink because the nurses would tell her she needed to keep her energy up. Unfortunately, she continued to get weaker over a couple of months in the hospital and passed away in October 2019. She would drink Ensure all the time because they told her it would give her all of the nutrition and minerals she was lacking because she lost her appetite. I wish I had been educated about the dangers of sugar then, especially for a cancer patient.
I did not understand this as my father was going down 2011-13 but understood entirely when it was my mother 2013-2021. Still, I could not its force. Even when I got the hospital to promise not to serve it to her, they still would. Ensure is the ruler of medical institutions. The brainwasher of all carers. It’s not just about death but the measure of torment it generates in an already ailing brain.
My nephew was in the hospital with cancer and ensure was on the menu. I was disgusted that they would give a cancer patient something so sugar ladened.
Always read the labels especially when they safe “healthy”!
I found out i have diabetes. And was lead to drink ensure. For good health. Instead it kept me with numbers unbelievable numbers. 500 -700