LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) – A health and wellness company is the subject of a class action lawsuit over claims it misrepresented the amount of protein contained in it nutrition products.
James Eashoo filed the lawsuit on March 10 against Iovate Health Services alleging its MuscleTech, Six Star and EPIQ products had less protein than advertised.
U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles
The lawsuit alleges Iovate engaged in what is know as “protein spiking,” in which products are “spiked” with amino acids that then register as proteins. Eashoo said he’s purchased Iovate’s products for the last four years due to the fact that the company advertised it had high levels of protein in its products.
The lawsuit claims the dietary supplement products, which makes the protein products such as those sold by Iovate, are a “multibillion-dollar” industry. A report by the Sports Nutrition Industry projected protein products could grow by 62 percent in 2018 and reach about $7.8 billion in sales, the complaint says.
Eashoo is seeking class status for those that purchased Iovate products. He is seeking more than $5 million in damages plus courts costs, and estimates in the lawsuit that thousands purchased Iovate’s products.
Eashoo is represented by Daniel L. Warshaw, Bobby Pouya and Matthew A. Pearson of Pearson, Simon & Warshaw, LLP in San Francisco.
United States District Court for the Central District of California case number 2:15-cv-01726
