Plaintiffs File Class Action Against Claire’s Stores for Allegedly Asbestos-Tainted Make-Up Products

NEW YORK –– A class action complaint has been filed in New York federal court against Claire’s Stores Inc., saying the company had a duty to assure that their make-up products did not contain asbestos and to warn consumers that they did, in fact, contain asbestos.

In the March 13 complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, the plaintiffs further said that Claire’s had “failed to act expeditiously and on its own volition to institute the appropriate voluntary recalls and confiscation, upon first being notified by any of its internal auditing that the …