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Company: Suunto Oy
Penalty: $24,000,000
Year: 2018
Date: December 17, 2018
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: product safety violation
Violation Description: Suunto Oy, a Finnish manufacturer of scuba equipment, and its U.S. distributor Aqua Lung America Inc. agreed to pay an estimated $48 million to settle class action litigation over defective depth computers. The settlement did not specify how much each company would pay; here we assume the total was evenly divided between them.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: private litigation
Court: San Diego County (CA) Superior Court
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 37-2018-00027159
Case Name: Huntzinger et al. v. Suunto Oy et al.
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
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