Costa Del Mar $23.9M Sunglasses Repair Fee Class Action Settlement

Consumer Protection · Pending — Automatic Payment

Current Status

There is no claim form in this settlement and no claim deadline. Costa Del Mar, Inc. has agreed to fund a $23,900,000 Settlement Fund, and every Settlement Class Member who does nothing is scheduled to receive a pro rata cash payment for each qualifying repair. The only dates that require action are the exclusion and objection deadlines, both October 26, 2026; the notice states them as calendar dates and does not specify a timezone.

The settlement is not final. Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida has set the Final Approval Hearing for December 14, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. in Orlando. No final approval order had been entered and no payment date had been announced as of August 27, 2026. Costa denies any wrongdoing or liability, and the Court has not decided the merits of the claims or Costa's defenses.

What Changed Recently?

The Court certified this lawsuit as a class action in 2025 and notice went out then to tell class members the case existed. A second round of notice is going out now for a different reason: the parties reached a settlement, and it puts real dates on the calendar for the first time — an October 26, 2026 exclusion and objection deadline and a December 14, 2026 Final Approval Hearing.

If you received a Costa notice years ago and assumed the matter was resolved, it was not. An earlier settlement that combined three Costa lawsuits, including Smith v. Costa Del Mar, Inc., Case No. 3:18-cv-1011, was vacated on appeal in Smith v. Miorelli, 93 F.4th 1206 (11th Cir. 2024). The settlement website for this case confirms that the Smith settlement is no longer in effect. The agreement described on this page is a separate, later deal reached in the Reed case.

The Smith case did not disappear either. It was re-filed in Florida state court and settled again in 2026, this time for $4,095,000, over a different fee — what Costa charged to repair sunglasses damaged by a manufacturer's defect, the repairs its “Lifetime Warranty” was supposed to cover. Two Costa settlements are therefore live at once, with separate funds, classes and deadlines, and one person can be covered by both. See our page on the Costa Del Mar $4.095M sunglasses warranty fee settlement for that one.

Who Qualifies?

You are a Settlement Class Member if you are a citizen of the United States, you purchased nonprescription, non-promotional Costa sunglasses before January 1, 2018, and Costa charged you a fee between April 3, 2015 and January 28, 2026 to repair or replace components of those sunglasses that Costa determined were damaged by accident, normal wear and tear, or misuse.

Two limits matter. First, the repair fee must have exceeded $11.95 — a repair billed at or below that figure does not qualify. Second, the class excludes Florida residents, who the notice says are covered by a settlement in a separate lawsuit, Haney v. Costa Del Mar, Inc. That $21.75 million Florida settlement also pays Floridians automatically for repairs over $11.95, and lets Floridians who bought Costa sunglasses from July 2013 to January 2018 claim a share by January 11, 2027. Also excluded are Costa itself along with its controlled affiliates and specified related persons, and judicial staff assigned to the case.

Prescription lenses and promotional pairs are outside the class definition, as are repairs Costa performed under a different arrangement than the damage categories above. If you are not sure whether a repair you paid for qualifies, the official settlement website is the place to check.