Some distributors claim they lost money.
The company wants to give them coupons good for Amway products. The proposed settlement, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, calls for the Ada, Mich., company to compensate disgruntled distributors by giving them discount coupons for Amway's most popular products. Stacy and John Hanrahan of Springfield were the lead plaintiffs in the 1994 lawsuit in which they alleged that, as distributors, they lost money selling Amway products. They contended that their sales income didn't cover the cost of motivational tapes that they were pressured to buy and the sales rallies they paid to attend. The Hanrahans accused the company and two of its high-level distributors of luring Amway sales recruits with the promise of inflated earnings and of pressing them to buy company sales materials, which benefited the top dealers.