A $3.38 million deal resolving allegations that Schwabe North America Inc. and unit Nature’s Way Products LLC deceptively marketed gingko biloba-based supplements was tentatively approved by a California federal court.
However, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California declined to preliminarily approve the proposed attorneys’ fees award of 33% of the settlement fund, or the proposed $5,000 incentive award to named plaintiff Kathleen Sonner.
The plaintiffs’ lawyers didn’t provide sufficient information for the court to evaluate those awards, it said in an order entered Monday.
Sonner sued in 2015, alleging the companies’ Ginkgold and Ginkgold Max products ...
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