El Segundo, California, U.S.A.-based company and its Bangkok, Thailand-based parent firm, Thai Union,
have agreed to settle price-fixing claims made in a class-action lawsuit filed a number of grocers.
The allegations stem from a criminal case in which Chicken of the Sea
served as a whistleblower
, which ultimately resulted in criminal convictions for rivals
Bumble Bee Foods
and
Starkist
. The civil class-action lawsuit that followed alleged the so-called 'big three' tuna companies overcharged for tuna they sold between 2011 and 2015.