Kasmer v. Britax Child Safety, Inc.

N.D. Ill. · No. 1:26-cv-10932

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Matter	Type	Practice area	Court	Date	Value
Britax Child Safety, Inc.source ↗ filed by Laukaitis Law LLC · Judge Virginia Mary Kendall · No. 1:26-cv-10932 · 28:1332 Diversity-Fraud · view case timeline → Comparable settlements $190M–$740M ▾ No comparables are direct false-advertising rulings; closest analogues (Guthrie, Citizens of Humanity) show consumer-labeling claims often fail at class cert or probable-cause stage due to individualized reliance issues, while Cetorelli and Dougherty show consumer-protection claims can survive MTD when deception is well-pled. Comparable settlements $190M–$740M median $299.50M · n=10 DiDi Global Inc. $740M · Merck & Co. Inc. a $688M · Western Union $586M Comparable verdict: Papaya $420M · Vital Pharmaceutical $293M Key precedent: Guthrie v. Transamerica — denial of class cert for UCL claims requiring individualized proof of representations mirrors the reliance risk Britax will raise here. Main risk: Class certification denial on predominance/individualized-reliance grounds, as in Guthrie, given varied consumer exposure to marketing claims. This defendant: Britax previously settled a $35.5M multi-defendant antitrust case, showing willingness to settle broad consumer-class exposure rather than litigate to verdict. Rough EV model (wide — class size is the big unknown, not a prediction): $400K–$12M Comparables are largely unrelated theories; figures are rough extrapolations, not case-specific data, so confidence is low. · grounded in 10 rulings, 10 settlements, 9 verdicts	Filing	False Advertising	N.D. Ill.	2026-09-09	$190M–$740M comparable settlements