US EditionClaims now open in $500-million bread price-fixing class action settlement
Loblaw and George Weston agreed to pay $404 million after customers paid about $1.50 more per loaf due to price-fixing between 2001 and 2021, lawyers said.
- Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and Orr Taylor LLP say the claims process is now open for Canadian shoppers to seek compensation from a $500-million bread price-fixing settlement.
- The alleged price-fixing covered packaged bread purchases from Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2021, with Loblaw and George Weston admitting participation to the Competition Bureau in 2015, first publicized in 2017.
- The settlement splits $404 million from Loblaw and George Weston and $96 million from a gift-card program; claimants need not show receipts and can file at CanadianBreadSettlement.ca or QuebecBreadSettlement.ca.
- Customers who declined Loblaw's earlier card will receive up to $25, and those who accepted it may claim incremental amounts if funds remain; the courts will oversee final distribution.
- Law firms urge consumers to claim under the $500-million settlement approved by the Superior Court of Quebec, which ends one chapter involving multiple grocers like Metro and Walmart Canada.
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Claims Open for Canadians in $500 Million Bread Price-Fixing Settlement
Canadians are now able to submit a claim as part of a $500 million class-action settlement related to alleged industry-wide price fixing of packaged bread. Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and Orr Taylor LLP announced on Sept. 11 that the claims process in the approved settlement involving Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its parent company, George Weston Ltd., is now open. The law firms are counsel in the class-action lawsuit against Loblaw and several o…
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