Oregon Attorney General Sues L.A. Weight Loss
July 17, 2007
Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers is suing L.A. Weight Loss, alleging the company makes misleading claims to consumers. Colin Fogarty reports.
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The Oregon Department of Justice says L.A. Weight Loss violated the state’s Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
The suit claims that the company’s ads say the program costs only nine dollars a week, when in fact consumers are required to pay several hundred dollars up front to sign up.
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Attorney General Hardy Myers also says the weight loss program includes nutrition bars that are really like to candy bars and that their cost to consumers isn’t clear.
Hardy Myers: “There are a variety of allegations of business practices that we contend violate Oregon law in one or another respect.”
Oregon has about 30 L.A. Weight Loss Centers. The franchise company that owns those stores, NWM, issued a statement saying the allegations in the lawsuit relate to what the company called “old issues” that were changed long ago.
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