Dollar General $1.8M Settlement Over Infant Acetaminophen Gets Final Approval

Dollar General Infant Acetaminophen Class Action Settlement Overview:

• Who: Dollar General and consumers have reached a $1.8 million class action settlement.
• What: The settlement ends a class action lawsuit that alleged that the company inflated the price of infant painkillers. 
• Where: The class action was settled in Florida.

A judge has given final approval to a $1.8 million settlement between Dollar General and consumers, ending a class action lawsuit that alleged that the company inflated the price of infant acetaminophen. With proof of purchase, consumers are entitled to an unlimited number of refunds of $4.32 per product or up to $12.96 without. 

The final approval order for the settlement was filed Dec. 2 in a Florida federal court with the court calling it “fair, adequate and reasonable.” 

According to the class action lawsuit filed in 2020 by lead plaintiff David Levy, Dolgencorp LLC, Dollar General’s parent company, violated state and federal consumer laws by overcharging parents for its DG Infants’ Pain and Fever Relief medication and labeling the product in a way that makes it seem to be specially formulated.

Levy claimed the medicine is the same as the DG Children’s Pain and Fever Relief, but Dollar General charged three times as much for it. 

Class Members to Receive Unlimited Number of $4.32 Refunds With Proof of Purchase

Under the terms of the settlement, class members can receive an unlimited number of partial refunds of $4.32 per infants’ product with proof of purchase or $4.32 per infants’ product up to a maximum of $12.96 without proof of purchase.

The company has agreed that it will only sell the DG Health Infants’ Acetaminophen if it states that it is the same as the cheaper DG Health Children’s Acetaminophen.

Under the agreement, counsel will get $545,000.

Consumers have made similar false advertising claims about Equate acetaminophen for infants sold by Walmart, Kroger Co.‘s store brand of infant acetaminophen and Rite Aid’s infant pain reliever.

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Levy is represented by Rachel Dapeer of Dapeer Law PA; Andrew J. Shamis of Shamis & Gentile PA; Scott Edelsberg of Edelsberg Law PA; and Melissa S. Weiner of Pearson Simon & Warshaw LLP.

The Dollar General Infant’s Acetaminophen Class Action Lawsuit is David Levy, et al. v. DolGenCorp LLC, et al., Case No. 3:20-cv-01037, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

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