Arizona Plans To Sue Theranos Over Faulty Blood Tests

An anonymous reader shares a TechCrunch report: The Arizona attorney general is soliciting outside legal counsel to pursue a consumer fraud lawsuit against the beleaguered blood testing startup Theranos, according to a document posted on the state's procurement website. AZ's AG has so far declined to comment on any action, but the document contends Theranos may have defrauded customers in the state and the office is now seeking proposals to assist it in possible legal action "against Theranos, Inc. and its closely related subsidiaries for violations of the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act arising out of Theranos Inc.'s long-running scheme of deceptive acts and misrepresentations relating to the capabilities and operation of Theranos blood testing equipment." Theranos ran its consumer portion of the business in Arizona and even worked with the state government to change laws allowing consumers to request blood tests without a doctor's permission. But, as the document cites, a myriad bad test results, including those raised in a series of Wall street Journal articles, raised concerns with the attorney general's office.

It is not "a myriad"

[al0ha]

It is myriad - as in myriad bad test results, not a myriad bad test results; didn't you pay attention in skool?

Accidentally a word

[Nidi62]

It is myriad - as in myriad bad test results, not a myriad bad test results; didn't you pay attention in skool?

Really what happened was the time honored tradition of slashdot posts leaving out words in the article/title. In this particular case the phrase was probably supposed to be "a myriad of bad test results".

Gross!

[Anonymous Coward]

Who tests blood using a thermos?!? We drink from those!

Re: Gross!

[Anonymous Coward]

That's why we put it in the thermos.

-Vlad

Re:

[sexconker]

Fake post about real articles about fake laws?

Re:

[DickBreath]

The post is quite real. The Arizona law is also quite real. Using Google you can find many more sources than the three citations I provided.

Re:

[gravewax]

Not really. Theranos is still running (it should be shut down). But even if it was you still need to prosecute/take legal action to ensure the dodgy directors and especially holmes etc are at the very least barred from running future ventures legally otherwise they would just move onto the next scam and rake in millions from more suckers as they would just claim "it was all just a beat up in the press, we were never charged with any crime or sued for any wrongdoing therefore we must be innocent".

elizabeth holmes should be in jail

[hsmith]

She blatantly endangered lives with Silicon Valley bullshit fake tests. It is criminal that she isn't rotting in a jail cell for fake test results.

Re:

[Actually, I do RTFA]

It depends whether she knew they were bullshit fake tests or she was really bad at sciencing*

*Not a word, but there needs to be a way to describe people who fail at experimental design/running experiments/after the fact statistics.

Took long enough

[smooth wombat]

It's been known for years Theranos is nothing but a scam. They have never allowed anyone to try and replicate their results, have never submitted their tests to government scrutiny, have never done anything to show their tests do what they claim they do.

It's a bit late for Arizona to be suing the company now, right when it's about to go bankrupt. At least go after Holmes for the fraud she's been perpetuating all this time because there's little left of the company.

Look out!

[bonedonut]

Once he gets all the infinity stones, Arizona is toast!

PrettySuccessful

[sdinfoserv]

This entire scam stems from Americans obsession with pretty, youthful, success. The US was so busy idolizing Holmes, nobody stopped and asked if it was real. Somewhere along the line we gave up critical thinking skills.