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Litigants are lining up against a Bergen County-based diagnostic lab company for allegedly selling fraudulent COVID-19 tests at one of its South Jersey locations, a scheme officials say ended only after an FBI raid of the facility in early December.
At least four people who fell for the alleged fraud have joined a class-action lawsuit against Infinity Diagnostics Labs, accusing the Teterboro company of advertising $75 rapid COVID tests that were actually antibody tests with no capacity to detect the virus.
The kits were distributed out of an Infinity location in Ventnor City, according to the suit, filed Dec. 15 in state Superior Court in Atlantic County. The storefront has since shuttered, but not before the alleged scam hoodwinked potentially thousands of people, according to the complaint.
The suit was brought in the name of Dana Kares, identified as a Margate woman who paid $225 for tests for herself and two family members in August.
It asks a judge’s approval to represent all state residents who, since March 1, “purchased finger-stick anti-body tests for COVID-19” from Infinity. The customers on average paid $50 for the tests, according to the suit. According to witnesses, the facility refused to accept credit or debit card payments and required any payments or insurance co-pays to be paid in cash, says the suit.
The lawsuit says Infinity used signs and ads that promoted rapid 10-minute testing for COVID-19.
Patient claims N.J. lab exposed countless residents to COVID-19 by giving wrong tests
Updated Dec 12, 2020;
Less than a week after the FBI urged anyone who got a COVID-19 test at an Atlantic County laboratory to get retested, one patient filed a lawsuit against the lab, claiming the lab advertised and administered the wrong tests, exposing people and their families to sickness and death.
Attorneys for Dana Kares, a Burlington County resident, sued Infinity Diagnostics Laboratory, of Ventnor City, for advertising finger-prick blood tests as effective tests to detect COVID-19, despite being meant to detect antibodies. The lab advertised the finger-prick blood tests as as a “COVID test”, “COVID Testing” or “rapid 10-minute testing” for COVID-19, according to the complaint.
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