StarKist settles canned tuna lawsuit; consumers can get $25 or $50 in fish

[Fuddnik]

This is not BS. I saw it on the news last night. It takes about 30 seconds to fill out the claim form online.

Link to lawsuit online claim form in article.

Sorry Charlie.

http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2015/08/starkist_settles_canned_tuna_l.html#incart_most-read_


CLEVELAND, Ohio -- If you bought a can of StarKist tuna in recent years, you may have netted less fish than promised.

Thanks to a recent legal settlement, you can convert that tiny loss into a small fortune in tuna. Though StarKist Co. denies any wrongdoing, it settled the suit by offering to pay consumers either $25 in cash or $50 in fish.

The settlement applies to customers who bought even one 5-ounce can of chunk light or solid white tuna, in oil or in water, between Feb. 19, 2009 and Oct. 31, 2014. Recognizing that most people would not keep tuna receipts for more than five years, the settlement allows for a kind of honor-system filing, via the Web site tunalawsuit.com.

Filing a false claim would be perjury. All claims must be filed by Nov. 20. According to the lawsuit, the federal government sets standards for how much of various kinds of tuna must be contained in a "5-ounce" can.

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[Oneironaut]

1. I guess the idea is that no one would be dumb enough to commit perjury for $25.

Or would they? lol

[Logical]

2. How would the prove it? Say i paid cash at a grocery store? Video? Nt

[Oneironaut]

4. True. I wouldn't think it was worth the risk, though, as small as it may be.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Starkist is the only brand of tuna I bought over most of my life.

Only just switched to a better brand after finding out this year how lousy their sustainability practices are.

So I probably qualify, given that I usually buy around 20 cans a year.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. I bought maybe 6 cans over the year.

We try not to eat tuna too often, cause of mercury, but have it occasionally.
I filled out the claim form.

[Fuddnik]

5. It's a fighting subject in my house.

I buy Starkist, and my wife prefers Chicken of the Sea.

The dogs could care less.

[snooper2]

7. Shit we have probably 10 cans in the pantry right now

I'll just take a picture of one next to a newspaper and the exp. date...just in case LOL

thanks!

[exboyfil]

8. $100 in free tuna

That will help the budget.

My wife and I surely bought at least one can of Starkist over that five years. Actually my college age daughter did as well so $150.

I wonder if Starkist will have a problem keeping the shelves stocked.

[hunter]

9. I quit eating tuna years ago because I don't want to support that industry...

... and I've told others so, therefore no money or fish for me.

I know tuna isn't on the Seafood Watch list, but I don't generally eat wild fish unless I personally know who caught it and how.

http://www.seafoodwatch.org

Ocean fish should probably be treated like migratory birds are in North America. There are too many fish species that could end up extinct like the passenger pigeon did, but furthermore I don't want to be competing with marine mammals such as orcas, sharks, and other top predators (including tuna) for food.

[Ino]

10. Thanks for posting this! (nt)

[awoke_in_2003]

11. Thanks...

I buy there solid white in water quite frequently. I love tuna fish salad sandwiches.

[madokie]

12. I just looked in the Pantry

and yup there is starkist chunk light tuna right there on the shelf.

[NightWatcher]

13. We were supposed to get $25 from Redbull because it didn't give you wings

I never saw any of that.