http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/the-exchange/today-food-finance-nutella-not-broccoli-162956191.html
Won $3m because she thought it was a healthy snack although she only gets $500k of that…the rest is to be spread around to the remain ST buyers of Nutella.
Wow, that would buy a lot of Nutella. I’ve been buying the almond/chocolate spread from Trader Joes. It’s probably more healthy.
They should not even allow that in court. Someone needs to tell that women eating her own shit is a healthy treat, maybe she would use common sense in that case.
The ad does seem to claim health benefits clearly (to some) outside the bounds of a food product like this. After watching it, I thought the ad was misleading as well. It seems to me like a legit case of product misrepresentation. I wonder if her $500K take will cover her legal costs. Maybe she worked the system to prove a point, not to earn huge sums of money. Whatever the case, I have no problem with this. Unfortunately, I cannot claim my $4, because I don’t eat the crap. And I won’t lie and say I did.
Only in America rolls eyes
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Stuff like this makes me want to just hit my head against a wall, repeatedly…
Maybe she worked the system to prove a point, not to earn huge sums of money.
Yes, I am sure that was her intent.
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Wow, that would buy a lot of Nutella. I’ve been buying the almond/chocolate spread from Trader Joes. It’s probably more healthy.
Are you and this court inferring that Nutella isnt healthy?! WHAT?!
At least they had the good sense to dump Kobe as a spokesperson before someone claimed it makes you rape people.
I’m going to eat Biscoff spread exclusively, and hire a lawyer, in that order.
<---- retirement planning.
Good friggin god. It’s your pie-hole, know what you’re shoveling in. So tired of this…
Maybe she worked the system to prove a point, not to earn huge sums of money.
Yes, I am sure that was her intent.
Class action, she doesn’t necessarily get anything more than the other class members, unless the court orders otherwise.
Real winners here are the plaintiff lawyers.
How come no one’s response is ever “Gee, maybe there is more to this than just what an article prints”, or “I wonder what information is missing from this article?”.
I say this only because I refuse to believe that there are numerous idiots in this world that let this apparently frivolous case get so far. So the lawyers, judges and jury all blindly thought this had merit, but no one on Slowtitch does?
Same with the McDonald’s coffee case. Really easy to have a gut reaction, but anyone that studies it deeper will find there were many things that became apparent that led to a person getting severely burned. Again, most took the gut reaction approach which is ultimately wrong.
I think the real idiocracy lies in the quick judgements of others that rely on the facts of a short article.
I prefer to withhold judgement until I know the whole story, hopefully it makes me seem a little smarter…
Common sense has died…it’ll be missed.
Dude, this IS Slowtwitch… Facts & Logic should never get in the way of Hyper-opinionated teeth gnashing and minimally informed Alpha Male chest beatings.
BTW, Nutella makes an excellent embrocation cream. Try it sometime!
Later!
Brian
How come no one’s response is ever “Gee, maybe there is more to this than just what an article prints”, or “I wonder what information is missing from this article?”.
I say this only because I refuse to believe that there are numerous idiots in this world that let this apparently frivolous case get so far. So the lawyers, judges and jury all blindly thought this had merit, but no one on Slowtitch does?
Same with the McDonald’s coffee case. Really easy to have a gut reaction, but anyone that studies it deeper will find there were many things that became apparent that led to a person getting severely burned. Again, most took the gut reaction approach which is ultimately wrong.
I think the real idiocracy lies in the quick judgements of others that rely on the facts of a short article.
I prefer to withhold judgement until I know the whole story, hopefully it makes me seem a little smarter…
I wonder how fat the woman is who sued and what other silly foods she eats daily.
Totally unbelievable … I watched the video and I didn’t find anything wrong in there … This is only one more case for the list of stupid lawsuits in US.
Maybe she worked the system to prove a point, not to earn huge sums of money.
Yes, I am sure that was her intent.
Class action, she doesn’t necessarily get anything more than the other class members, unless the court orders otherwise.
Real winners here are the plaintiff lawyers.
The plaintiff didn’t “win” anything from the judge or jury–Ferrero, the makers of Nutella, voluntarily agreed to settle. As in 99% of class actions, there was never a trial–just a settlement extorted out of fear of a major jury verdict.
There are actually two settlements–one for California, and one for the other 49 states.
In California, the plaintiffs and class members split $550K (minus the costs of notice, which is considerable). Plaintiffs’ counsel gets $900K + a TBD share of the $550K.
In the other case, the plaintiffs’ attorneys get $3M + up to 30% of $2.5M, the named plaintiffs get $2,000 each, and $2.5M (minus the part paid to plaintiffs’ counsel and the costs of notice) goes to everyone else ar $4/jar.
What’s also ridiculous is that the notice of the settlement is to be published in People Magazine, Women’s Day, Parents, and Ser Padre. Wouldn’t they get more Nutella consumers if the notices were in Bicycling Magazine and Triathlete?
This was based on a quick skim of the settlement agreements. I may have missed some details. I’ve defended a bunch of class action lawsuits–the whole system is a sham solely designed to enrich the plaintiffs’ bar.
The settlement docs are available here:
https://nutellaclassactionsettlement.com/CourtDocuments.aspx
The fairness hearings are on July 9. It’s probably a waste of time, but it would be awesome if a whole bunch of people showed up to protest the settlement and the fact that the plaintiffs’ attorneys get more than 50%.
How come no one’s response is ever “Gee, maybe there is more to this than just what an article prints”, or “I wonder what information is missing from this article?”.
I say this only because I refuse to believe that there are numerous idiots in this world that let this apparently frivolous case get so far. So the lawyers, judges and jury all blindly thought this had merit, but no one on Slowtitch does?
Same with the McDonald’s coffee case. Really easy to have a gut reaction, but anyone that studies it deeper will find there were many things that became apparent that led to a person getting severely burned. Again, most took the gut reaction approach which is ultimately wrong.
I think the real idiocracy lies in the quick judgements of others that rely on the facts of a short article.
I prefer to withhold judgement until I know the whole story, hopefully it makes me seem a little smarter…
This case never went to a jury–it was a settlement paid out of fear of losing much more.
ahhh, which leads me to believe there are even fewer apparent idiots. Anyone doing the calculus of whether to go to trial or not balances the facts with the risks. If a settlement in this amount was awarded, I’d think there was compelling evidence that things could have been much worse.
Now I really wonder what were are missing here…
ahhh, which leads me to believe there are even fewer apparent idiots. Anyone doing the calculus of whether to go to trial or not balances the facts with the risks. If a settlement in this amount was awarded, I’d think there was compelling evidence that things could have been much worse.
Now I really wonder what were are missing here…
The calculus was probably: It will take $2M to litigate this, with a 1/4 chance of losing $24M. That’s an expected cost of $8M. If I can settle for <$8M, I’m better off. That completely ignores the merits of the case and the fact that someone read the tagline on the label but didn’t read the ingredients, which state: Sugar, Palm Oil, Hazelnuts, Cocoa, Skim Milk, etc.
My homemade strawberry jam probably has more sugar than Nutella. So does a donut. And who’s to say sugar is bad? I need the calories.
According to one article I read, the mom saw the commercial, feed her kids Nutella, then read the label. I’m not sympathetic to someone who feeds, then reads the label.