US EditionSome victims claim exclusion from Tiger Brands listeriosis settlement deal
- Tiger Brands offered a settlement on April 25, 2025, to claimants affected by the deadly 2017-18 listeriosis outbreak in South Africa.
- The offer follows a class-action lawsuit filed due to contaminated processed foods from Tiger Brands' Polokwane facility that caused over 200 deaths and more than 1,000 infections.
- The settlement, presented by attorneys for Tiger Brands' insurer QBE Insurance Group, covers compensatory damages without admission of liability and requires court approval for fairness.
- Class attorneys welcomed the offer as an "effective admission of liability" and noted it represents a major step toward corporate accountability and justice for victims.
- The settlement process will take several weeks to identify qualifying claimants and quantify damages, with further legal stages pending for liability and causation determination.
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Department applauds Tiger Brands' decision to pay listeria victims
South Africa’s largest food producer, Tiger Brands, has offered a settlement to families affected by the 2017 listeriosis outbreak, which killed over 200 people and sickened over 800. Tiger Brands announced on Monday that it would make settlement offers to people who suffered damages after contracting listeriosis, a food-borne disease, from its products. FOOD COMPANY AGREES TO COMPENSATE VICTIMS In 2017, a listeriosis outbreak linked to contamin…
Tiger Brands offers first settlement in deadly listeriosis outbreak case – The Mail & Guardian
South Africa’s largest food producer, Tiger Brands, has agreed to settle claims from certain groups in the listeriosis class-action lawsuit, seven years after the country experienced the world’s deadliest listeriosis outbreak. The 2017-18 outbreak caused 218 deaths out of more than 1 000 infections as a result of people consuming contaminated processed food products — mainly polony cold meat and vienna sausages — which were produced at the Tiger…
Tiger Brands settlement in listeriosis class action offered 'without admission of liability'
Tiger Brands, South Africa's biggest food producer, on Monday offered to compensate listeriosis victims, marking a major step toward resolving class action after a 2017 outbreak that killed about 200 people and sickened more than 1,000.
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