LA Weight Loss to Refund Members $200,000
May 5, 2009 by admin
The Oregon Attorney General has issued the following press release:
The Defunct Diet Center Chain and Oregon Franchise Agree to Pay $200,000.
Attorney General John Kroger announced a settlement that will provide up to $200,000 for Oregon consumers who bought services and products from a now-defunct diet center chain.
“Misleading Oregon consumers is not acceptable,” said Attorney General Kroger.
Consumers who believe they are due refunds from LA Weight Loss should contact the Attorney General’s hot line: 877-877-9392 or fill out a refund form on the Oregon Department of Justice’s website: http://www.doj.state.or.us/releases/pdf/lawl.pdf
A 2007 lawsuit by The Oregon Department of Justice alleged that LA Weight Loss and its Oregon franchise owner made false and misleading claims about the program’s costs and fees. The state received 295 complaints about LA Weight Loss centers in Oregon.
The lawsuit named LA Weight Loss Franchise Company, a Pennsylvania-based company, and NWM, Inc., a Lake Oswego-based company.
NWM went out of business two months after DOJ filed suit.
By December 2008, all LA Weight Loss centers in Oregon had closed.
Today, DOJ filed in Marion County Circuit Court a $200,000 settlement with LA Weight Loss Franchise Company and LATO, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of LA Weight Loss Franchise Company. Under the settlement, the companies will also pay additional refunds directly to approximately 100 Oregonians for pre-paid amounts that were unused at the time their center closed in Oregon.
Earlier this year, DOJ reached a settlement with NWM.
Assistant Attorney General Eva H. Novick handled the case with assistance from Senior Assistant Attorneys General Greg Smith and Tim Nord.
Attorney General John Kroger leads the Oregon Department of Justice. The Department’s mission is to fight crime and fraud, protect the environment, improve child welfare, and defend the rights of all Oregonians.
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I’m waiting for a full refund from LA. They owes me 56 boxes of bars (7 pack each)and paid by me office vizits. $ 876.00 are not just a trash! I have to work hard to have that money. LA easely took the money from people. I”ll be happy to have them back!
I was a customer of laweightloss in Shreveport la. I went there on day ask them was their closing she said no. And before the next week they had went out of business. And i paid in full never . Im very made i work to paid them.
I lost over $1,000 to LA Weight Loss. After joining, I stopped in one day and the doors were locked. It soon re-opened as Pure Weight Loss. I filed paperwork for the courts when I received notice of the bankruptcy, and haven’t received a penny. Since, I have received e-mails and now a post card offering LA to Your Door. This is the same product LA Weight Loss was selling, and you can’t tell me that someone else owns the rights to this product. It’s another scam to take our money. Yes, I am angry. I think it is so unfair that these companies can make you sign contracts and rob us, then open up again under a new name, over and over again. ( And then the nerve to contact the same people. I hope no one is stupid enough to fall for this). This has to be stopped.