Nationwide testing firm slapped with lawsuits in Minnesota and Washington state
Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced a consumer protection lawsuit last month against two companies that allegedly collected and processed samples from state residents for COVID-19 testing but failed to deliver results or delivered results that were falsified or inaccurate.
A third allegation: Some Minnesotans reported receiving test results from the companies despite never having submitted a sample for testing.
One defendant had been operating more than 300 testing sites across the U.S. but announced a day after the suit was filed that it was suspending operations indefinitely, “pending the resolution of federal and state inquiries and claims,” a company spokesperson said in a statement.
The defendants are the Center for Covid Control, LLC, and Doctors Clinical Laboratory, Inc., housed at the same address in suburban Chicago.
USA Today reported that Washington state’s attorney general sued the two firms on Jan. 31. The center had operated in at least 26 states and processed more than 80,000 tests a day. It is now the subject of probes by federal authorities and several…
