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DeLaval settles defective milking robots class action for $55M

S2 · 07/28
2022 · DeLaval

Record

CompanyDeLaval
Categoryagtech
Typeregulatory
Date07/28
2022
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS2 (minor injury or single-unit damage)
Scale$55M settlement
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceTop Class Actions

What happened

DeLaval agreed to a $55 million class-action settlement over allegations that its robotic milking systems were defectively designed, causing operational failures on dairy farms. Not a personal-injury event; a product-defect legal settlement.

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