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_Published 2015-08-28. In the world of commercial class-action lawsuits, settling in tuna is not as strange as you might think._


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## Transcript

StarKist has settled a class action lawsuit alleging it under filled it's cans of tuna starting as far back as 2009. Shoppers who were shorted several tenths of an ounce of tuna per can are now illegible to receive a payout. In cash or in cold hard tuna, Starkist will pay out as much as 50 dollars worth of tuna to affected customers. Assuming $ 1. 50 a can, that could be 30 plus cans of tuna. Customers also have the option of receiving $ 25 in cash instead. This is actually normal behavior in the food industry. Red Bull settled a similar case earlier this year and paid out ten dollars in cash or fifteen dollars in the Red Bull drink of your choice.

And there are worse, or at least stranger things than fish to receive as lawsuit payouts. Class action rebates keeps a running list of payouts. Currently up for reimbursement, everything from cash payouts from Comcast and Transpacific Airlines to ten years of maintenance on qualifying Mercedes- Benz vehicles . Ignore all [ MUSIC ] To five dollars worth of potatoes. Now, a Mercedes is more valuable than a potato, so yes, depending on what plaintiffs are claiming, sometimes you have to provide proof of ownership, but this isn't always the case. The Starkist settlement, for example, does not require explicit proof of purchase of qualifying tuna products.

Of course, if you have been saving your tuna receipts for the last five and a half years you could qualify for a bigger payout. Effected customers can head to, yes, tunalawsuit. com to file their claims.

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