Members Sue Bally, LA Fitness over Lifetime Memberships
advertisement
Interact With Us
Best of 2011
Top Stories of 2011
The most popular stories of 2011. Did your favorites make our list?
Resource Center
Buyers Guide
Find industry businesses by product or service categories, view company profiles and more.
Club Industry Trade Show
Club Industry Show and Conference, held each October, is the premier event for fitness and wellness professionals. Find out more about Exhibitors, Events, and Education.
Industry Events & Trade Shows
The industry-wide calendar features listings for educational events, trade shows and more.
Classifieds
View classified ads for health club equipment and services, plus business opportunities and job postings.
Current Issue
Read stories from the latest print issue of Club Industry magazine.
Club info and News
Read news about some of the biggest names in the industry.
- 24 Hour Fitness
- Anytime Fitness
- Bally Total Fitness
- Crunch Fitness
- Club One
- Curves
- Equinox
- Gold's Gym
- Health Fitness Corp.
- LA Fitness
- Life Time Fitness
- Lifestyle Family Fitness
- Planet Fitness
- Plus One Management
- Powerhouse Gyms
- Snap Fitness
- Spectrum Athletic Clubs
- Sport & Health
- Town Sports International
- Sports Club Co.
- Urban Active
- Wellbridge
- Western Athletic Clubs
- World Gym
E-Newsletter Signup
Breaking news on the industry, people on the move, mergers and acquisitions and much more. Delivered weekly.
Two Bally Total Fitness members have filed a lawsuit in federal court against both Bally and LA Fitness seeking class-action status on behalf of Bally members who have lifetime memberships.
The complaint, Juan Dorado, Michael Markzon, v. Bally Total Fitness Holding Corp., LA Fitness International LLC, was filed Sunday night in the United States District Court for Northern Illinois, Eastern Division, in Chicago.
The plaintiffs argue that Chicago-based Bally and Irvine, CA-based LA Fitness violated the Federal Honest Services Act, the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act and the Illinois Common Law Breach of Contract.
LA Fitness finalized its purchase of 171 Bally Total Fitness clubs for $153 million on Nov. 30 and, according to its website, was scheduled to close 36 of those acquired clubs. All 27 of the Chicago-area Bally clubs transferred to LA Fitness, and four of the clubs closed in December.
The lawsuit claims that LA Fitness is not honoring lifetime memberships and will not allow access to former Bally members unless they purchase a new membership. Also, the suit claims that LA Fitness clubs purchased from Bally in one area of the country, such as Seattle, are not honoring Bally memberships if they were purchased in another state, such as Texas. For other potential plaintiffs, there are no nearby LA Fitness facilities for former Bally members to use, according to the complaint.
Want to use this article? Click here for options!
© 2012 Penton Media Inc.
Acceptable Use Policy blog comments powered by Disqus