Tyson Has $99 Million Deal With Consumers in Chicken Cartel Case

The consumers leading a proposed chicken price-fixing class action over an alleged industrywide scheme revealed a $99 million settlement with Tyson Foods Inc., part of a larger $104 million “icebreaker” deal they disclosed in a Chicago federal court.

The agreement, which includes a cooperation pledge, is the first between the consumer plaintiffs and the poultry processors they targeted in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, where the consolidated case also includes antitrust claims on behalf of retailers and wholesalers.

The deal comes six days after Judge Thomas M. Durkin granted preliminary approval to a $155 ...