Consumer Protection

State and federal laws provide consumers with broad protection from false and misleading advertising and unfair or deceptive business acts or practices.

Gustafson Gluek has lead class action lawsuits on behalf of consumers involving claims about falsely marketed life insurance, defective hardware in consumer computers, misleading air compressor labeling, rental car overcharges and deceptively marketed beds.

Budget Rent a Car:

The firm recently represented a class in a case against Budget Rent a Car that settled on terms very favorable to the class. Plaintiffs alleged that Budget unfairly and without notice charged renters more money (in many instances hundreds of dollars more) for bringing their car back early. After Gustafson Gluek helped get a class certified and won a summary adjudication motion, Budget agreed to return 100% of the overcharges – in cash – to each renter and to clearly disclose its practices going forward.

Yarrington, et al. v. Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc:

Gustafson Gluek was one of two firms appointed Co-Lead Counsel by the U.S. District Court in Minnesota to represent those persons who purchased and ingested Estratest and Estratest H.S., hormone replacement therapy drugs, after March 8, 1998 in all states except California. Plaintiffs alleged that Defendant falsely and deceptively advertised the drugs as being “FDA-approved.” Following nearly six years of hard-fought litigation, Defendant agreed to pay $16.5 million, which allowed class members to recover 100% of their claimed damages.

In Re: Sigg Switzerland (USA), Inc. Aluminum Bottles Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation, MDL No. 2137:

Gustafson Gluek is currently serving on the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for In Re: Sigg Switzerland (USA), Inc. Aluminum Bottles Marketing and Sales Practices Litigation. This case is a multidistrict class action alleging that SIGG Switzerland (USA), Inc. falsely marketed its reusable aluminum bottles as free of Bisphenol-A (“BPA”).