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Company: Schwabe North America, Inc.
Penalty: $1,550,000
Year: 2015
Date: May 20, 2015
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: Botantical Laboratories and Schwabe North America together agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle litigation alleging they misled customers about the benefits of their glucosamine supplements. Court documents did not indicate how much each company would pay. Here we assume they each paid half.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Southern District of California
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 3:13-cv-00618
Case Name: Hazlin v. Botanical Laboratories, L.L.C. et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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