Rainbow Light Vitamins Lawsuit Settlement Website Is Live

UPDATE 2: On Oct. 6, 2020, Top Class Actions viewers started receiving checks in the mail from the Rainbow Lights vitamins class action settlement worth as much as $500. Congratulations to everyone who filed a claim and got PAID!

UPDATE: June 2020, the Rainbow Light vitamins class action settlement is now accepting claims. Click here. 

Nutranex, Rainbow Light Nutritional Systems, Renew Life, Everest NeoCell, and Nature’s Products have agreed to a settlement of $6,750,000 to end claims that their Rainbow Light multivitamins, vitamins, and supplements may contain heavy metals including mercury, lead, cadmium, and arsenic.

Now, a settlement website providing more information is live.

Though the website is live, the settlement is not accepting claims at this time. A judge has yet to approve the settlement deal. Top Class Actions will provide information on how to file a claim as soon as the details are available.

The settlement website invites Class Members from all states other than California to register for a Class Members ID number in the Rainbow Light vitamins lawsuit settlement.

The settlement deal is awaiting preliminary approval from the court. Because of this, the settlement is not yet accepting benefits so Class Members cannot take action to receive benefits until the deal does receive approval.

Class Members eligible for the proposed settlement include non-California residents who purchased Rainbow Light Prenatal products, Rainbow Light Postnatal products, or other Rainbow Light vitamins, multivitamins, and supplements between Dec. 1, 2015 and April 16, 2020.

Customers filed the Rainbow Light vitamins class action lawsuit against the makers of the vitamins because they claimed that the products were falsely advertised.

Allegedly, the products were marketed as free from heavy metals but actually contained multiple versions of these potentially dangerous ingredients, including lead, cadmium, arsenic, and mercury.

Other advertisements for the products reportedly said that the products contained the “lowest detectable” amounts of lead compared with other, competing brands of vitamins. However, the products allegedly contain more lead and other heavy metals than what most customers expect based on representations that the vitamins are “free of heavy metals.”

According to customers, they were financially injured because, if they had known that the products contained heavy metals, they would not have purchased them or would not have paid as much as they did for them.

Allegedly, the companies knew or should have known that the vitamins contained heavy metals, but advertised them as if they did not in an effort to attract customers.

The customers assert that the vitamin makers chose to put profits ahead of their customers’ financial and physical health.

The makers of the vitamins do not admit any wrongdoing in the Rainbow Light vitamins lawsuit. However, both the companies and the customers agreed to a settlement to avoid the costs and risks of continuing to litigate.

Under the proposed settlement, Class Members who do not have proof of purchase would be eligible to receive $4 per bottle for pre-natal and post-natal products, and $1 for non-prenatal or non-postnatal products.

For customer with no proof of purchase, their benefits would be capped at $9.50 per household.

Class Members who do have proof of purchase could recover $7 per bottle of pre- or post-natal products and $2 per bottle of non-prenatal or non-postnatal products. Benefits for Class Members who do have proof of purchase are set to be capped at $18 per household.

However, these benefits would be distributed on a pro rata or proportional basis, so the benefits that each Class Member could receive from the Rainbow Light vitamins lawsuit settlement may be less than these amounts based on the number of claims made.

To receive benefits from the Rainbow Light vitamins lawsuit settlement, Class Members must first register to file a claim.

In registering, Class Members will obtain a Class Member ID. After a Class Member has registered, they can then submit a completed Claim Form between May 29, 2020 and July 29, 2020 if the settlement is approved.

Funds will be distributed once the settlement has received final approval from the court.

The settlement website advises Class Members that if they collect benefits, or even if they do nothing, their rights will be affected.

Class Members who remain in the Class, even if they do not collect benefits, waive their rights to pursue independent litigation over the Rainbow Light multivitamins heavy metal issue.

Class Members do have the right to exclude themselves from the Class or object to the terms of the settlement. Class Members who exclude themselves will not be eligible for benefits but will retain their right to pursue independent litigation against the companies. The deadline to opt out from the Class is June 29, 2020.

Class Members are invited but not required to attend a hearing on July 29, 2020.

Do you take vitamins or supplements? How much do you trust the label when you purchase the products? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

The customers are represented by Gregory L. Shevlin of Cook Bartholomew Shelvin Cook & Jones LLP; Gary M. Klinger of GMK Law LTD; and Gary E. Mason of Mason LLP.

The Rainbow Light Vitamins Class Action Lawsuit is Erin Smid, et al. v. Nutranext LLC, et al., Case No. 20L0190, in the Twentieth Judicial Circuit Court of St. Clair County, Illinois.

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