Egg on your election: Biden was blamed for egg costs, now egg producers see wave of price fixing lawsuits a year later
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Major U.S. egg producers are contending with a growing spate of class action lawsuits accusing them of fixing prices, as consumer frustration over the cost of eggs continues to simmer after years of inflation.
The first of the new wave of cases was filed on November 6 in federal court in Indiana, alleging major producers violated U.S. antitrust law and caused grocers and other buyers to pay artificially higher prices. Groups of consumers, opens new tab and restaurants filed the latest cases in Wisconsin and Illinois federal courts on Friday and Monday.
The lawsuits each target Cal-Maine Foods, Rose Acre Farms and other producers. Data analytics and consulting firm Urner Barry is a defendant in some of the cases.
The plaintiffs claim the companies coordinated on prices through Urner Barry’s pricing benchmarks and a private trading platform. The lawsuits also allege that egg producers used the avian flu outbreak of late 2021 as a pretext for increases, even though flock reductions were modest and feed and fuel costs declined.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-egg-producers-face-new-wave-price-fixing-lawsuits-2025-11-18/
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