Ohio attorney general sues Allcare Dental
Staff report
COLUMBUS
Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine filed a lawsuit Friday against New York-based Allcare Dental and Dentures for failing to deliver promised services to customers.
Allcare abruptly closed all its nationwide locations in January, including one on U.S. Route 224 in Boardman.
“When Allcare shut its doors, it left behind hundreds of Ohioans who had paid for dental products and services they never received,” DeWine said. “In some cases, Ohioans went weeks and months without dentures, or they scrambled to retrieve their dental records and quickly find a new provider. We want to do everything we can to protect these consumers.”
DeWine’s office said after Allcare’s closure, it received more than 940 complaints, most because Allcare failed to deliver services.
The seven-page filing in Franklin County Common Pleas Court charges Allcare with violating the Consumer Sales Practices Act. It states Allcare failed to provide promised products and services and did not provide refunds. The lawsuit seeks injunctive relief, $25,000 in civil penalties per violation and full restitution for former Allcare customers.
Allcare previously had released a statement that said it couldn’t continue business because it “became severely cash constrained and had no way to continue to operate going forward.”