Six defendants in the consumer pork price-fixing case have settlements on file, and five of them are paying: Tyson, Hormel, Clemens, Seaboard and Triumph. The sixth, Agri Stats, agreed to change business practices and pay nothing. The five paying defendants form the still-open set, and the notice that covers them is separate from an earlier JBS and Smithfield settlement whose claim window has already closed.
Five paying defendants, and a sixth that is not
The settlement website for the later round identifies the defendants with active settlements as “Agri Stats, Clemens, Hormel, Seaboard, Triumph, and Tyson,” according to the case information page run by the settlement administrator. Of those six, the page says Agri Stats agreed to “reform certain business practices but not pay any money.” The remaining five made monetary settlements that total $117.065 million.
That split explains the count in the headline. Five names appear on the payment side: Tyson, Hormel, Clemens, Seaboard and Triumph. Agri Stats sits in the same notice campaign but contributes no money to the fund. Anyone reading the notice for who is writing a check should therefore count five, and anyone counting every defendant that has resolved claims in this round should count six.
The purchases the consumer class covers
The notice describes the case as a consumer indirect purchaser action. The class, in the notice’s capitalized wording, is people who “PURCHASED PORK PRODUCTS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM JUNE 28, 2014, THROUGH JUNE 30, 2018, FOR PERSONAL CONSUMPTION.” The personal-consumption wording is the tie to the class as the notice states it.
The underlying allegation is that the defendants “conspired to limit the supply of pork and increase prices in the market” through price fixing and production restraints. The claims arise in In Re Pork Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 0:18-cv-1776-JRT-JFD, before Judge John R. Tunheim of the U.S. District Court in Minnesota, as the administrator’s page lists. The page frames these as allegations, and it reports no finding against Tyson, Hormel, Clemens, Seaboard, Triumph or Agri Stats.
The JBS and Smithfield window that closed on April 22
The pork case has produced more than one settlement notice, and the administrator keeps them on separate sites. The landing page at overchargedforpork.com points to one portal for the earlier JBS and Smithfield settlements and another for the later defendants. On the earlier round, it states: “The claim deadline passed on April 22, 2026.” Its notice campaign had begun on July 22, 2021.
This article’s headline covers only the later set. JBS and Smithfield are not among the five names, and a claim aimed at their settlement can no longer be submitted under the deadline the landing page reports. The two rounds run on different sites and different calendars, so the dates on one page do not carry over to the other.
The notice campaign that is still running
The later round runs on its own calendar. The landing page says its notice campaign “began on August 28, 2026,” and that “the claim submission deadline for these Settlements is October 29, 2026.” The administrator’s case page lists the same date, October 29, 2026, as the opt-out and objection deadline. Those are different actions with different consequences, and the page presents them under one date, so the notice itself is the document that spells out which action each date governs.
Because this headline concerns who is settling rather than who gets what, the notice’s terms on distribution are outside its scope. The pages read for this article state the combined total for the five paying defendants but do not break out a per-person amount, and none is reported here.
Who administers the claims process
The settlement administrator is Epiq, which lists the contact address admin@OverchargedForPork.com and the phone number 1-888-287-5434 on its case information page. The page also carries the court’s address in Minneapolis, 300 South Fourth Street, Suite 202, as the venue for the case.
The administrator’s landing page is the statement of record on which window is shut and which is open. The earlier JBS and Smithfield deadline passed on April 22, 2026, and the claim submission deadline for the round covering Tyson, Hormel, Clemens, Seaboard, Triumph and Agri Stats is October 29, 2026, as overchargedforpork.com reports.
Two pork notices, two portals, and a date that is easy to misfile
The pork litigation has produced separate settlements with separate websites and separate calendars. One round has ended and another is still collecting forms, which leaves a real chance that a purchase gets filed under the wrong notice or that a date gets copied from the wrong page. A notice that bundles claim, opt-out and objection into one date adds to the confusion.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System opens with the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice and adds a claim log and payment tracker for recording each pork submission from the first form to the final payment.
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This article was drafted with AI assistance and checked against the cited settlement pages before publication.
Warren Cohen is a finance writer based in Phoenix, Arizona, covering personal finance topics including credit, banking, and beginner investing. He earned his degree in business administration from Arizona State University and began his career working in consumer finance, where he gained direct experience with lending and credit systems. He now writes for personal finance websites and fintech platforms, focusing on clear, practical content that helps readers make informed financial decisions.
