Sign Up for Tyson, Clemens, Seaboard, Hormel & Triumph Class Action Lawsuit
Tyson, Clemens, Seaboard, Hormel & Triumph class action lawsuit is currently open:
Those who meet eligibility criteria should apply before the deadline October 27, 2026. Tyson, Hormel and other processors settled the pork class action for $117 million. Bought pork in 23 states or DC from 2014 to 2018? You may qualify.
Tyson, Clemens, Seaboard, Hormel & Triumph Class Action Lawsuit
If bacon seemed to cost more every year you bought it, the numbers agree. According to the complaint in this pork class action case, the average retail price of bacon rose from $3.57 a pound at the end of 2009 to $5.60 at the end of 2017. The lawsuit says that was no accident: it claims that Tyson, Hormel, Smithfield, JBS, Seaboard, Clemens and Triumph, which between them control more than 80% of the country’s pig slaughtering plants, agreed from at least 2009 to hold back supply and raise the price of pork.
The pork lawsuit details are specific. The complaint quotes Smithfield’s chief executive in 2009 urging rivals to act: “Somebody else has got to do something. We cut 13%.” It says the companies traded production and pricing figures through a data company, Agri Stats, whose reports Tyson called “the bible”, and cut their herds to keep supply short. The pork legal claims rest on federal and state antitrust law, the consumer protection laws of 12 states, and unjust enrichment, a claim that a company should hand back money it was not entitled to keep.
Wanda Duryea of Farmington, New Hampshire, and other shoppers first filed the case on June 28, 2018, five years before the Justice Department sued Agri Stats. The court certified the consumer class on March 29, 2023, and every company denies wrongdoing. The case is In re Pork Antitrust Litigation, No. 0:18-cv-1776, before Judge John R. Tunheim in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. The court-appointed lawyers for the class, known as co-lead class counsel, are Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and Gustafson Gluek.
Tyson, Clemens, Seaboard, Hormel & Triumph Class Action Settlement - $117,065,000
The latest pork settlement update is that five processors have agreed to a combined pork lawsuit settlement amount of $117,065,000: Tyson $85,000,000, Clemens $13,500,000, Seaboard $10,000,000, Hormel $4,465,000 and Triumph $4,100,000. They settled at different stages, the last of them while both sides prepared for trial. Agri Stats pays no money but has agreed to permanently end the sales reports the court described as the most suspicious and suggestive element in the case.
Not all of that money reaches claimants. The lawyers are asking for fees of up to one third of each settlement and up to $5,000,000 in expenses, plus $3,000 for each of the 29 named consumers who represented the class. The settlement administrator, Epiq, has agreed to cap the cost of notice and processing claims at $1,830,000. Money that cannot be paid out may go to a court-approved charity, known as a cy pres recipient.
Pork settlement eligibility covers purchases made between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018. Earlier settlements with JBS for $20,000,000 and Smithfield for $75,000,000 had their own claim period, which has closed, so a claim filed now is paid from the five newer settlements. The deadline to file is October 27, 2026. Anyone who wants to opt out or object must do so in writing by October 29, 2026, and the judge will decide whether to give final approval at a hearing on December 11, 2026.
Deadline for filing a claim: October 27, 2026
Pork Processors Class Action Payout: About $30 (estimate)
There is no fixed pork settlement amount per person, so here is an estimate and how we got it. From the $117,065,000, take out the most the lawyers can be awarded, about $39,022,000 in fees and $5,000,000 in expenses, then $87,000 for the 29 named consumers and up to $1,830,000 to run the claims process. That leaves about $71,100,000. In the earlier round of this same case, about 2,400,000 claims had been submitted by September 2023. Shared across that many claims, the fund works out to about $30 each.
So the answer to how much will I get from the pork lawsuit is roughly $30, as an estimate rather than a promise. Payments are pro rata, which means shared in proportion to the pounds each person reports, so someone who bought pork most weeks should receive more than that and an occasional buyer less. The figure falls if more people file this time, since about 29 million were sent notice by email against about 20 million last round, and rises if many claims are rejected. The lawyers may also set a minimum payment for every valid claim.
As for the pork settlement payout date, eligible payments are sent after final approval and after any appeals are finished, which usually takes months. The claim form offers a digital Mastercard, Amazon, Starbucks, Kroger, Safeway, Instacart and Zelle, or a mailed check. If a payment does not arrive, call the settlement administrator at 1-888-287-5434.
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Pork Processors Class Action Eligibility
Pork class action eligibility turns on where the pork was bought, not where you live now. Pork class action claimants bought it for their own household between June 28, 2014, and June 30, 2018, in 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 or West Virginia. Those states let a shopper who bought through a store sue over price-fixing. In Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee the period starts a year later, on June 28, 2015.
Covered pork is raw bacon, including Canadian and flavored bacon, and fresh or frozen cuts from the belly, loin, shoulder or ribs, such as chops, tenderloin, ribs and pork butt. Some things that look similar do not count. Ham, sausage, deli meat and anything precooked are not on the covered list, and neither is organic or no-antibiotics-ever pork. Marinated, seasoned, flavored or breaded pork is out too, with one exception: bacon.
The claim form asks where and when you bought covered pork, whether you are claiming as a person or a business, and your best estimate of the pounds you bought and what you spent. You certify that your answers are accurate, though not under penalty of perjury, and the administrator can ask for proof. Claim the amounts you are confident in: a smaller, accurate claim gets paid, and an inflated one can be cut back or rejected.
Pork Processors Class Action Claim Form
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FAQ
Not by the government. The consumers’ own investigators and economists pieced it together, and their complaint, filed June 28, 2018, was the first against the pork industry. The Justice Department did not sue Agri Stats until 2023.
Tyson is paying $85,000,000, Clemens $13,500,000, Seaboard $10,000,000, Hormel $4,465,000 and Triumph $4,100,000, for $117,065,000 in all. Agri Stats pays nothing but has agreed to end the sales reports at the center of the case.
A company that collects detailed production and pricing data from meat processors and turns it into industry reports for them. Tyson called it “the bible”, according to the court, and the lawsuit says the reports let rivals see what each other was doing.
No. JBS paid $20,000,000 and Smithfield $75,000,000 in earlier settlements, and their claim period has closed. A claim filed now is paid from the Tyson, Clemens, Seaboard, Hormel and Triumph settlements only.
Only certain states let shoppers who bought through a store sue over price-fixing, so what counts is where the pork was bought, not where you live. In Kansas, South Carolina and Tennessee, purchases count only from June 28, 2015.
Raw bacon counts, including Canadian and flavored bacon. Ham, sausage, deli meat and precooked products are not on the covered list, and nor is organic, no-antibiotics-ever, or marinated, seasoned or breaded pork other than bacon.
Our estimate is about $30 a claim: roughly $71,100,000 left after fees and costs, shared across the 2,400,000 claims submitted in the earlier round. Payments are pro rata, so frequent buyers should receive more and occasional buyers less.
If enough is left after the first payments, there may be a second round. What remains after that can go to a court-approved charity, known as a cy pres recipient, or be handled however the court orders.
Fees of up to one third of each settlement, up to $5,000,000 for expenses, and $3,000 for each of the 29 named consumers who represented the class. The judge decides all three at the December 11, 2026 hearing.
Claims are due by October 27, 2026. Eligible payments are sent after the court gives final approval and after any appeals are finished, which usually takes months. Filing is included in a Chimo membership.
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