Source: VINNewsService.com, May 26, 2009
Payments in a $24-million settlement of claims spurred by the largest pet food recall in U.S. history remain hung up in court.
Although the settlement was approved last November by U.S. District Court Judge Noel Hillman in New Jersey, two separate parties have appealed the settlement, effectively blocking payments indefinitely.
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Anonymous
June 2, 2009, 8:35 pm
GREEDY ASS PEOPLE
Anonymous
August 8, 2009, 3:46 pm
With 24,950 claimants the amount of compensation awarded is not fair. Say the lawyer's fees takes 1/3, then 2/3rds of the balance leaves less than $650 person. I don't even think this amount covers cremation.
I don't know of ANYONE's vet bills related to this being this low. Mine are in the thousands. Anyone who has ever had to take their pet to the vet to get basic tests such as Xrays/Ultrasounds/Blood tests etc know that $650 gets eaten up so fast.
Now consider what's involved in diagnosing and treating kidney failure especially when vets weren't even aware of the contamination and you get staggering bills.
rtfurlano
August 13, 2009, 3:02 am
Well all that money is sitting in a bank, building interest what 24,000,000 dollars, your looking at big interest. Wheres that go? Let me guess the lawyers get the interest as well.
Isn't that kind of steep? The lawyers get 1/3 of the settlement? and 25,000 people get short changed. Thats Politics.
rtfurlano
August 13, 2009, 3:03 am
ROB FROM THE POOR AND GIVE TO THE RICH
maiingan
November 15, 2009, 4:52 pm
Our family is suffering deeply financially because of ongoing care for our pets that have eaten the food. We have ten pets, several of which are in the lawsuit. On top of the thousands we have spent thousands. I had an inch thick stack of paperwork. At this point, I would like something. I would like the people holding this up to drop it as I think they are just "plants" working for Menu Foods Corporation with the intention to stall the whole lawsuit. I would like a Federal Investigation into this so that whatever, albeit teenie funds are released. We hare $6000 in debt right now. I want this investigated and settled.
