Intuit Gets ‘Expert Review’ False Advertising Claims Tossed (1)

HRB Digital LLC’s counterclaims alleging that Intuit Inc. falsely advertised that its customers who get “expert final review” of their tax returns will automatically have an expert review their entire return was dismissed by a federal court.

The H&R Block subsidiary said that Intuit’s customers actually have to ask for an expert review of their returns and the expert only answers questions they pose. But Judge Beth Labson Freeman of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said Tuesday that HRB didn’t show that “consumers’ purchasing decisions were based upon their belief that expert final review would ...