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A Utah health and home product company has agreed to pay $1.2 million to its Idaho Falls-based rival to settle a lawsuit over allegations it poached employees and urged them to breach contracts.

Max International in Salt Lake City was sued by Idaho's Melaleuca in fall 2009, who contended the Utah company raided its marketing executives and then conspired to have those former workers breach their contracts with the company by recruiting other sales people.

Melaleuca sells about 350 nutritional and household products including lotions, detergents and powdered drinks. Max International sells similar products and uses a similar business model.

The settlement was reported by a story published Sunday in the Post Register.

"Our actions here were vindicated, and the outcome says the actions we tried to seek against Max International were finally realized," Melaleuca President McKay Christensen told the newspaper. "We think Max took the right actions here in settling the case, and we're pleased to have a positive outcome."

Max co-CEOs, Joseph Voyticky and David Bagley, apologized to the Idaho company, saying it "deeply regrets any actions, if any, by its officers, employees or associates that contributed to any contract violations by former Melaleuca (sales agents)."

Read more at the Washington Examiner.

I was reading about the lawsuits and controversy surrounding Melaleuca, Terry Dorfman and Ken Dunn this morning and I was getting confused, frustrated and more than a little pissed off. I'm a big fan of the network marketing industry but sometimes there's so much sh#t flying around that you get distracted from what's important.

Then I came across this comment by Josephine Gross from Networking Times.

The problem with these kinds of stories is they are all about positioning, politics, making this party look good and that party look bad. Everyone knows lawyers are liars. The truth is, we will never know the truth. Why waste our time reading what they want us to think?

- Josephine Gross, commenting at Business From Home, December 21, 2010 at 6:02 am

When it comes to the controversy surrounding Melaleuca, Terry Dorfman and Ken Dunn,  Josephine Gross gets it right. Why waste our time reading what they want us to think?

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