$50 or $100 checks for Homeopathic Class Action Settlement

The settlement website is very detailed including a FAQ and links to the court documents.

The short version is, if you've purchased almost any Boiron homeopathic product you can make up to a $50 claim without a receipt, or up to a $100 claim with a receipt.

Claims can be made online. The deadline for claims has not been set, but the earliest it could be is August 28.

The site is http://www.gilardi.com/boironsettlement/

If you have doubts this is a legit settlement, you can see the detailed court documents as well as the fact the site is hosted by Gilardi, which does this for dozens of cases a year.

Thanks for the info. Bought a lot of Chestal for by twin boys over the years from Vitacost. Time to file a claim...

A settlement fund of $5 million is being set up to pay claims to eligible Class Members, attorneys’ fees and costs, and the notice and claims administration costs.

I have purchased many of their products over the years. Who in the world keeps receipts from all of their medicine purchases, though?

Zuke76 said:   mamamouse said:   I have purchased many of their products over the years. Who in the world keeps receipts from all of their medicine purchases, though?

Same here. I have filed many Class Action Settlement claims and have never seen a payout...

I'm sure you were entitled to all of them right?

mamamouse and zuke:

Fortunately you can still make a claim for up to $50 with no receipts.

Psycho41 said:   You mean I can't cure my cold just by drinking expensive tap water? What's next, I can't make money working at home by billing medical corporations?The problem is you can't easily tell which med* you buy is homeopathtic. I bought some Zicam last year and only found out later that's this homeo crap by reading the ingradient list. Most consumers can't even tell because the ingredients sounds like medicine.

It's modern voodoo magic packaged in nice drug store boxes because marketers forced FDA to accept it as grandfathered back in the 70s(?). Until this problem is resolved, more consumers will waste $ on this BS.

ZenNUTS said:   Psycho41 said:   You mean I can't cure my cold just by drinking expensive tap water? What's next, I can't make money working at home by billing medical corporations?The problem is you can't easily tell which med* you buy is homeopathtic. I bought some Zicam last year and only found out later that's this homeo crap by reading the ingradient list. Most consumers can't even tell because the ingredients sounds like medicine.

It's modern voodoo magic packaged in nice drug store boxes because marketers forced FDA to accept it as grandfathered back in the 70s(?). Until this problem is resolved, more consumers will waste $ on this BS.
To paraphrase Dr. Dean Edell, if someone really did find a cure for the common cold, the first place you'd be hearing about it would be every medical journal and every major news outlet, not some TV commercial. Somehow, in the world of test scores, grades, and diplomas, we've stopped teaching common sense.

Don't knock homeopathy if you are ignorant of it's applications and benefits. While it does not have a cure for all kinds of ailments (no branch of medicine does), it is well-proven and beneficial, and almost always without harmful side-effects. You can't say that for any other type.

They key is to find a capable (non-quack) diagnostician, and the appropriate medication for the remedy. Once you find that, you will never willingly look elsewhere.

aarzi said:   Don't knock homeopathy if you are ignorant of it's applications and benefits. While it does not have any useful effect for any kind of ailments, it is unproven and worthless, and almost always without harmful side-effects.
FTFY.

You can't say that for any other type.
Unless you count water...

They key is to find a capable (non-quack) diagnostician, and the appropriate medication for the remedy. Once you find that, you will never willingly look elsewhere.
Non-quack homeopathy is a contradiction in terms. Homeopathy is absolutely, undoubtedly, junk science. It has been shown time after time to have ZERO medicinal benefit, other than placebo effect. Homeopathy's supposed mechanism of action contradicts everything we know about science. So either we've got science all wrong, or some snake oil salesmen are trying to make a quick buck. Which do you consider more likely?

aarzi said:   Psycho41 said:   Which do you consider more likely?Forget likelihood. It's a certainty that you have limited and biased information on the subject.

As for the placebo effect, I had uncontrollable coughing maybe 200/365 days a year for several years. Nothing seemed to help. Now I have been cough-free for a long time. Yes, homeopathic cure.

My cousin had tonsillitis. "Only" option was to have surgery. He is symptom-free and surgery-free.

An acquaintance of mine had severe allergies, even to some anti-histamines. Extremely limited in diet options. Now she is sneeze-free, and pretty much eats anything she wants.

A neighbor of mine had an in-grown toenail. Homeopathy could not help. He needed minor surgery.

 

All you need to do is find a capable diagnostician. Otherwise, the best medicine in the world will not cure what it's not meant for. Unless it's this.
Thank you, Kevin Trudeau.

technolich said:   I bet next you'll tell me that I can work from home making over $100 an hour with very little training, no start-up costs, and that my ceiling for profit is only equal to my motivation!You would lose that bet

ZenNUTS said:   This post demostrate how, in the 21th century, can so many people believe in magic and quackery.

aarzi said:   Psycho41 said:   Which do you consider more likely?Forget likelihood. It's a certainty that you have limited and biased information on the subject.

As for the placebo effect, I had uncontrollable coughing maybe 200/365 days a year for several years. Nothing seemed to help. Now I have been cough-free for a long time. Yes, homeopathic cure.

My cousin had tonsillitis. "Only" option was to have surgery. He is symptom-free and surgery-free.

An acquaintance of mine had severe allergies, even to some anti-histamines. Extremely limited in diet options. Now she is sneeze-free, and pretty much eats anything she wants.

A neighbor of mine had an in-grown toenail. Homeopathy could not help. He needed minor surgery.

 

All you need to do is find a capable diagnostician. Otherwise, the best medicine in the world will not cure what it's not meant for. Unless it's this.And this post demonstrates how insistently some people remain ignorant, clinging on to their fallacious beliefs.

aarzi said:   And this post demonstrates how insistently some people remain ignorant, clinging on to their fallacious beliefs.How do you explain why practitioners of alternative medicine usually have less training than practitioners of mainstream medicine? Even when the alternative practitioners do have MDs or DOs, they're more likely to to be GPs than specialists. Why is that?

ZenNUTS said:   aarzi said:   And this post demonstrates how insistently some people remain ignorant, clinging on to their fallacious beliefs.So, how do someone like you determine what's true and what's BS? What process do you use?

The settlement administrator vets claims, and gilardi does dozens of settlements each year. They have various tricks to detect questionable claims, for example looking at IP addresses.

We also rely on people's sense of honor and unwillingness to lie when submitting something under oath.

If you want to see a long list of settlements that currently have open claim windows, you can go here:
http://www.topclassactions.com/open/

It isn't very well organized however and scanning through them all quickly isn't easy. If someone has a few minutes to kill, organizing them would be a really useful post. For example a line for the Boiron might be:
Nearly all Boiron Homeopathic Products / US Residents / Claims of $50 Permitted without Proof of Purchase, of $100 with proof

For this one:
http://www.capaxilclassaction.com/

it would be something like
Paxil buyers in California between 1999 and 2002 / Claims of $80 permitted without proof of purchase but sworn statements, unlimited claims with proof / claim deadline is 10/10/12