Sarah Mirando  |  August 14, 2012

Category: Consumer News

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Sharp LCD TVDetails on how to file a claim for the LCD panel class action lawsuit settlement have finally been released. If you purchased a laptop, computer monitor or television with a flat-panel LCD display between January 1, 1999 and December 31, 2006 manufactured by Toshiba, LG, AU Optronics, Samsung, Sharp, Hitachi, Epson, Chimei, Chunghwa or HannStar, you may be eligible to receive at least $25 cash from the class action settlement.

The LCD monitor settlement will resolve a class action lawsuit, entitled In re: TFT-LCD (Flat Panel) Antitrust Litigation, that alleges the LCD manufacturers listed above engaged in a price-fixing conspiracy to fix, raise, maintain or stabilize the prices of TFT-LCD flat panels, resulting in consumers overpaying for TVs, laptops and computer monitors containing the panels. The Defendants deny any wrongdoing, but have agreed to pay a combined $1.1 billion class action lawsuit settlement to provide refunds to U.S. consumers.

The LCD class action settlement only covers consumers who purchased INDIRECTLY from these companies. “Indirectly” means that you purchased an LCD panel in a television, monitor or notebook computer from someone other than the manufacturer of that panel (such as at Best Buy, Amazon.com, etc.). The states covered under the LCD class action settlement include:

Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Hawaii
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Tennessee
Vermont
West Virginia
Wisconsin

To receive a cash refund from the LCD class action settlement, you must submit a claim form to the Settlement Administrator on or before December 6, 2012. Claim forms can be submitted online at www.LCDClass.com.

The amount of money you will receive from the settlement will be based on how many claims are filed as well as the number/type of LCD flat panel product you purchased, but the minimum amount you will receive is $25. A claim for the purchase of an LCD flat panel TV will be given twice the value as a claim for the purchase of a monitor or notebook computer.

Payments will be distributed after the Court grants final approval of the LCD panel settlement and any appeals are resolved. A Final Fairness Hearing is set for November 29, 2012.

Claim forms and more information on your rights in the LCD Panel Class Action Lawsuit Settlement can be found at www.LCDClass.com.

UPDATE 4/14/14: Distribution of funds from the LCD class action settlement has been delayed by appeals. The Settlement Administrator is estimating that the appeals will not be resolved until 2015 to 2018. Read more.

UPDATE 7/24/14: All appeals have been resolved and payments could go out at early as September or October 2014. More info.

UPDATE 10/23/14: A federal judge reportedly gave authorization to distribute the LCD class action settlement funds at a hearing on Oct. 17. 2014, and the checks are likely to be distributed the last week in October. Read more.

UPDATE 10/23/14: A federal judge reportedly gave authorization to distribute the LCD class action settlement funds at a hearing on Oct. 17. 2014, and the checks are likely to be distributed the last week in October. Read more.

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51 thoughts onLCD TV, Laptop, Computer Monitor Class Action Settlement

  1. ANGEL says:

    THE DIRECT PURCHASERS GOT MILLIONS. I HOPE THE INDRIECT PURCHASERS GET MILLIONS TO ARE LEAST THOUSANDS. THANK GOD FOR OUR MILLIONS. THANKS, AND GOOD LUCK TO EVERY ONE THAT FILED A CLAIM.

  2. Debra J Gonzales says:

    I keep getting these forms to fill out for my refunds, but yet I am not getting any Information on this suit, it has been awhile since I filed the first one, on th internet
    and here are the IDNO’S: that I was sent,
    1st IDNO: 102860984, 2nd IDNO:102894118, 3rd IDNO:102912645,
    all I would like to know is this ever going to be settled out or are you all just yanking our chains and we are never going to see the money for our merchandise that we purchased I have signed up for the news letter updates and neve got any of those, I have called and ask questions and never got any answers on those.

    So all I am asking is can anyone give us answers on to when this is going to end.

    Why? did the Stores get their MONEY first? this is wrong and we as the consumer should have gotten our money first they put up the sales to draw us in knowing that they were marking up the electronics no matter what it is, this is no different than a car sales person marking up that car 1,000.00 just to get that extra commission in their pockets, they knew what they were doing.

    Please respond to my email AT: dgbanning2@msn.com,
    or dgbanning2@hotmail.com.

  3. Angel says:

    OK, THANKS MARY.

  4. Mary M. says:

    Angel, I have no idea. she said her son file a claim for her. Her son haven’t receive a check either.

  5. Angel says:

    HI. MARY WAS YOUR SISTER AN INDIRECT PURCHASE.

  6. Mary M. says:

    My sister got a nice size check yesterday. But when I call them about the claim, all I got was a recording. saying they didn’t have a date for sending out checks. she just move last month and they had her new address on check. She said she never contact them with her new address. She was shock. I hope I get a Check.

  7. Mary M. says:

    My sister got a nice size check yesterday. But when I call them about the claim, all I got was a recording. saying they didn’t have a date for sending out checks. she just move last month and they had her new address on check. She said she never contact them with her new address. She was shock. I hope I get a Check.

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  9. alflo says:

    cosumers are direct purchasers

  10. andy says:

    the checks that went out on the 23rd were for the direct purchasers not consumers..the consumers have been appealed

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