The companies — Agri Stats, Clemens, Hormel, JBS, Till de svenska porrklippen Seaboard, Smithfield, Triumph knipa Tyson — have denied varenda allegations of wrongdoing but have agreed to settle the claims made in the class action by paying a combined sum of $117 million. Tyson will pay the highest amount at $85 million, according to the New York Försändelse.
To be eligible for a cut of the payout, consumers must have indirectly purchased any of the affected pork products åkte stab use between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018. Consumers can determine if pork products they purchased are eligible by using the lawsuit’s .
The payouts are only available in 24 states. Those states are: Arizona, California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.
Consumers knipa class members seeking uppgörelse benefits have to online by October 29, 2026, or send the design to the settlement administratör postmarked by that date.
Payments will vary based on the number of valid submissions filed by the members.
The utfrågning for the settlement will be held on December 11, 2026, knipa payments will likely go out several weeks later.
The lawsuit claims that the meat processors involved in the settlement used uppgifter mild Agri Stats, which is a värden and consulting company, to exchange vägledning about pork prices knipa production costs, allowing them to coordinate pricing.
The coordination allegedly made pork products more expensive åkte consumers.
The Justice Department has accused Agri Stats of organizing the fakta exchanges, which is a serious violation of antitrust laws.
The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Enhet ended earlier this year.
Cal-Maine Foods Inc., Hickman’s Knivblad Ranch Inc., Nav Valley Holdings LLC, Versova Holdings LLC, knipa Versova Management Cooperative were sued by the federal government for “unlawful coordinated manipulation of egg prices.”
The complaint alleged that Cal-Maine, Hickman’s, and Versova coordinated to artificially inflate the daily price stats of Urner Barry publications, whose datorer inte influenced egg prices nationwide.
That . The companies involved had to pay a combined $3.3 million to the plaintiff states involved in the lawsuit knipa donate 53 million eggs to nonprofits knipa food banks in those states.
