Published
October 23, 2026
People and businesses that bought ready-mix concrete directly from listed Argos, Lafarge, Thomas, Evans, Elite or Coastal plants in the greater Savannah area between January 1, 2010 and July 31, 2016 may qualify to claim a pro rata cash payment from the Savannah ready-mix concrete price-fixing class action settlements. Claims close November 16, 2026.
Current Status
Claims are open in the Savannah-area ready-mix concrete price-fixing case, Pro Slab, Inc., et al. v. Argos USA LLC, et al. The deadline is November 16, 2026, for a claim submitted online or mailed with a postmark by that date; the official materials give no time of day. The settlements with Lafarge, Thomas and Evans received final approval on November 12, 2025, and the court approved the plan for distributing that money on November 17, 2025. A separate $17.5 million settlement with Argos is only preliminarily approved, with its final approval hearing set for November 4, 2026, and is not part of this claim round. No payment date had been announced as of October 23, 2026.Free settlement alerts
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Status
Claims Open
Lafarge, Thomas & Evans funds · Argos pending
Claim Deadline
November 16, 2026
online, or mailed with a postmark by that date
Estimated Payout
Pro Rata Share
based on qualifying concrete purchases · not known until claims are counted
Proof Required
Yes — ID to file online
Claim ID & PIN from the mailed notice · without one, an ID request or a Purchase Audit Request with receipts, delivery tickets or invoices
What Changed Recently?
The current claim round opened after the court approved the plaintiffs’ plan for distributing the Lafarge, Thomas and Evans settlement funds on November 17, 2025. Under that plan, Verita Global, the court-appointed administrator, mailed claim notices carrying a Claim ID and PIN to class members it could identify from the defendants’ sales records, and the settlement website at SavannahConcreteCase.com began taking claims.Separately, on July 23, 2026, the court preliminarily approved a $17.5 million settlement with Argos USA LLC and Argos Ready Mix LLC. Its exclusion and objection deadline was September 22, 2026. Notices about the Argos settlement went out while the claim round for the earlier settlements was already open. On October 7, 2026, the plaintiffs filed Argos settlement papers with the court, including a motion for attorneys’ fees and a filing on exclusion requests, ahead of the November 4, 2026 fairness hearing.
The lawsuit, filed on November 22, 2017 in the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, alleges that the defendants conspired from January 1, 2010 through July 31, 2016 to raise, fix, maintain or stabilize the price of ready-mix concrete sold from their plants in the greater Savannah area, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The plaintiffs claim this led to artificially high concrete prices. The defendants have denied liability, and the court has made no finding that any defendant broke the law. According to the notices, the settling defendants agreed to settle to avoid the costs and risks of trial.
Why Are There So Many Settlement Websites?
There is one lawsuit, but it has six defendant groups, and they settled one at a time. Each settlement needed its own court-approved notice, its own exclusion and objection deadlines and its own approval hearing, so the administrator set up a separate website for each one. All of them sit under the same domain, and all of them belong to the same case number. The main site, www.SavannahConcreteCase.com, is the hub: it links to each settlement’s site and carries the claim form for the current round.| Defendant | Amount | Where it stands | Website |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lafarge North America Inc. | $5.4 million | Final approval November 12, 2025; in the current claim round | Lafarge site |
| Thomas Concrete, Inc. and Thomas Concrete of South Carolina, Inc. | $7.6 million | Final approval November 12, 2025; in the current claim round | Evans & Thomas site |
| Evans Concrete, LLC | $5.8 million, or $5.65 million if Evans pays its balance early | Final approval November 12, 2025; in the current claim round | Evans & Thomas site (shared) |
| Elite Concrete, LLC | $750,000 | Approved by the court; its site carries the same claim link and November 16, 2026 deadline | Elite site |
| Argos USA LLC and Argos Ready Mix LLC | $17.5 million | Preliminary approval July 23, 2026; final approval hearing November 4, 2026; no claims yet | Argos site |
| Coastal Concrete Southeast II, LLC | None announced | No settlement appears on the case websites | — |
The hub and the Lafarge, Evans & Thomas and Elite sites describe the settlements as “totaling over $19 million.” The distribution plan the court approved covers the Lafarge, Thomas and Evans funds, which add up to $18.65 million before fees and costs (plus another $150,000 if Evans takes the later payment option). The Argos money is separate and will not be paid out until the court gives final approval and approves a way to distribute it.
Who Qualifies?
The settlement class is every person or entity, individual or business, that bought ready-mix concrete directly from one or more of the listed plants (the “Subject Plants”) at any time from January 1, 2010 through July 31, 2016. The class definition covers only direct purchases from a listed plant. The defendants and their employees, parents, subsidiaries and affiliates are excluded, and so are government entities. Anyone who asked to be excluded from a particular settlement cannot be paid from that settlement.The listed plants are in coastal Georgia and the South Carolina Lowcountry, grouped here by town:
- Georgia: Savannah (including East Savannah), Garden City, Pooler, Port Wentworth, Bloomingdale, Rincon, Richmond Hill, Black Creek, Midway and Hinesville, Statesboro, Claxton, Metter, Millen, Sylvania, Swainsboro and Jesup.
- South Carolina: Ridgeland (listed as Hilton Head/Ridgeland), Hardeeville, Bluffton and Beaufort.
- Portable plants: the list also includes portable plants that Argos, Evans and Lafarge operated at various locations.
By company, the list covers Argos plants in Ridgeland, Midway, Pooler, Richmond Hill, Rincon, Savannah and Statesboro; Elite plants in Hardeeville, Bloomingdale, Hinesville and Savannah; Evans plants in Claxton, Garden City, Statesboro, Metter, Midway, Millen, Jesup, Swainsboro and Sylvania plus portable plants in Black Creek, Pooler, Bloomingdale and Port Wentworth; Lafarge plants in Hinesville, Pooler, Richmond Hill, Rincon, Black Creek and Savannah; and Coastal and Thomas plants in Beaufort, Bluffton, East Savannah and Pooler. The full list with plant addresses is in the notices on the settlement website.
How Are Payments Calculated?
Payments are pro rata. After the claim deadline passes and every claim has been processed, the administrator divides each claimant’s qualifying purchases by the total qualifying purchases of all claimants, and that percentage is the claimant’s share of the net settlement funds. Purchases are counted across all three settlements together, so a class member does not file a separate claim for Lafarge, Thomas and Evans. Because the result depends on how many others file and how much they bought, no per-claimant amount can be known in advance.The net funds are what remains after court-approved deductions. On November 12, 2025, the court awarded class counsel a fee of about $6.22 million (one-third of the three funds), $3.6 million in litigation expenses and service awards to the three class representatives, all paid from the settlement funds. Notice and administration costs also come out of the funds. In their October 2025 distribution motion, the plaintiffs estimated that at least $8.7 million would be left for class members from the three settlements if those requests were granted.
A “qualifying purchase” is ready-mix concrete only. According to the claim instructions, it does not include separately charged admixtures and additives such as fiber mesh, rebar, wire mesh, steel fiber, concrete blocks, precast products, forms, hardware, sealants, test cylinders, tools or other building materials. It also leaves out extra-charge services such as special delivery, truck or equipment rental, overtime, same-day service, truck cleanup and weekend, holiday or after-hours service. Environmental fees and fuel surcharges are included.
The Argos settlement has its own fund. Its notice says the Argos net fund will be split in proportion to each participating class member’s 2010–2016 purchases from the listed plants, subject to court approval, and that it will not be distributed at this time.
What Proof or Notice ID Is Required?
The online claim form opens with a Claim ID and PIN printed on the mailed claim notice. Class members found in the defendants’ sales records received one, and when they log in, the form shows a qualifying-purchase amount already filled in from those records. A claimant who agrees with that amount submits the form with no receipts.There are two routes for someone without a Claim ID and PIN:
- The contact form on the settlement website, for an individual or a business. It does not submit a claim. It asks the administrator for a Claim ID and PIN; the administrator says it will reach out to confirm the requester’s identity and provide them.
- A Purchase Audit Request filed without a Claim ID, meant for buyers whose purchases do not show up in the defendants’ records. It asks for annual purchase amounts by defendant and must be backed by records from the time, such as receipts, delivery tickets or invoices that show the defendant, the product, the amount and the purchase or delivery date.
A claimant who has a Claim ID but thinks the pre-filled amount is too low can also file a Purchase Audit Request with the same kind of records. The administrator then decides whether to use the original amount, the higher amount or a different figure. Because filing online requires either the notice credentials or purchase documents, this is not a no-proof settlement.
What Is the Deadline?
Claims and Purchase Audit Requests are due November 16, 2026, either submitted online or mailed with a postmark no later than that date. The settlement website does not state a time zone or time of day. The deadline is the same whether a claimant received a mailed notice or requested a Claim ID and PIN through the contact form.How Are Claims Filed?
Claims are filed on the official Savannah Concrete Case settlement website, through the button labeled for submitting a claim form or audit request form. A claimant with a notice logs in with the Claim ID and PIN, reviews the pre-filled purchase amount, fills in contact details and signs a statement under penalty of perjury. Anyone who received more than one notice files a separate claim for each Claim ID and PIN. A paper claim form came with the mailed notice for those who prefer to mail it.For someone who used the contact form, the process has two steps. The confirmation that arrives after the contact form, asking the requester to await further communications, only acknowledges the request. If the administrator then sends a Claim ID and PIN, the claim itself still has to be filed under those credentials by November 16, 2026. The contact form does not hold a place or extend the deadline, and the Purchase Audit Request route, with documents, is available without waiting for credentials.
Questions go through the contact options on the settlement website.
What Happens Next?
For the Lafarge, Thomas and Evans money, the administrator will calculate each claimant’s share after the November 16, 2026 deadline passes and all claims and audit requests have been reviewed. No payment date had been announced as of October 23, 2026.For the Argos settlement, the court holds its final approval hearing on November 4, 2026, at 9:30 a.m. in Charleston, South Carolina. The Argos notice says class counsel would ask for attorneys’ fees of one-third of the $17.5 million plus up to $850,000 in expenses, and that service awards would not exceed $30,000 for each class representative. The Argos notice says that no Argos claims should be submitted now; if the settlement is approved, claim forms and instructions will follow once the court approves a method of distribution, and they will also be posted on the settlement website. Whether a claim filed in the current round will carry over to the Argos distribution has not been announced. Approval is not guaranteed, and if the court approves it with no appeals, the Argos settlement becomes final 30 days later.
Sources and Verification
- SavannahConcreteCase.com — the hub site, claim deadline and FAQ.
- Lafarge settlement website — settlement agreement, final approval order, the plan of distribution motion and brief (ECF 538), the claim notice and claim form instructions (ECF 538-3), the order approving distribution (ECF 545) and the order on fees and expenses (ECF 543).
- Evans & Thomas settlement website — both settlement agreements and the final approval orders for Thomas (ECF 541) and Evans (ECF 542).
- Elite settlement website — the Elite long-form notice and settlement amount.
- Argos settlement website — the Argos long-form notice, the preliminary approval order (ECF 571) and the important dates.
Official Settlement Notice (Argos)
Questions
What does the “please await further communications” email after the contact form mean?
It confirms that the administrator received the contact information. It is not a claim and not a claim confirmation. The contact form is how people without a mailed notice ask for a Claim ID and PIN; the administrator says it will reach out to confirm the requester’s identity and provide them. A claim still has to be submitted online, or mailed with a postmark, by November 16, 2026.
Do purchases from Argos plants count in the current claim round?
The Lafarge, Thomas and Evans settlement classes cover direct purchases from every listed plant, and the claim instructions list the Argos plants among them. So Argos-plant purchases from January 1, 2010 through July 31, 2016 are part of the qualifying purchases in this round. The separate $17.5 million Argos settlement fund is not being paid out in this round.
Will a claim filed now also cover the $17.5 million Argos settlement?
That has not been announced. The Argos notice says no Argos claims should be submitted yet, and that claim forms and instructions will be provided once the court approves a way to distribute the Argos money. The final approval hearing for the Argos settlement is set for November 4, 2026.
What if a business received more than one notice?
Each Claim ID and PIN is a separate claim. The settlement website and the claim instructions say a separate claim is filed for each Claim ID and PIN a class member received.
Is Coastal Concrete part of a settlement?
No settlement with Coastal Concrete Southeast II appears on any of the case websites. The plants listed under “Coastal and Thomas” are still listed plants, so direct purchases from them during the class period count toward qualifying purchases under the Thomas, Lafarge and Evans settlement classes.
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Settlement Amount
$18.65 million in the current claim round
Lafarge, Thomas & Evans · plus $750,000 Elite · $17.5 million Argos pending final approval
Case Title
Pro Slab, Inc., et al. v. Argos USA LLC, et al.
Case Number
2:17-cv-03185-BHH
Court
U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina (Charleston Division)
Final Approval Hearing
November 4, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. (Argos)
Lafarge, Thomas and Evans approved November 12, 2025
Administrator
Verita Global, LLC
Official Website
Savannah Concrete Case.com
