Osram Sylvania Inc. has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class action accusing the company of consumer fraud for falsely marketing its SilverStar automobile headlights as a safety enhancement because they are brighter, project a wider beam and allow better sight down the road.
Those claims, according to a complaint by New Jersey resident Imran Chaudhri in U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, were based on a rigged study that did not base comparisons between the premier Sylvania halogen headlight bulbs and other bulbs under similar testing conditions.
