Costa Del Mar $4.095M Sunglasses Warranty Fee Class Action Settlement

Consumer Warranty · 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 $4,095,000 Settlement Fund, and every Settlement Class Member who does nothing is scheduled to receive a pro rata cash payment for each eligible warranty repair. The only dates that require action are the exclusion and objection deadlines, both October 8, 2026; the notice gives them as calendar dates and does not specify a timezone.

The settlement is not final. The Court has authorized notice to the class, and Judge Robert M. Dees of the Circuit Court, Fourth Judicial Circuit, of Duval County, Florida has set the Final Approval Hearing for January 20, 2027 at 9:30 a.m. in Jacksonville. No final approval order had been entered and no payment date had been announced as of September 4, 2026. Costa denies that it violated the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act and denies any wrongdoing or liability, and the Court has not decided the merits of the claims or of Costa's defenses.

What Changed Recently?

This lawsuit is older than its case number suggests. The same Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act claim was filed against Costa in federal court in August 2018, the parties settled it there, and the Eleventh Circuit vacated that approval. The federal case was then dismissed on jurisdictional grounds on June 17, 2025, which left the claim alive but the settlement gone. The plaintiff re-filed an identical complaint in Florida state court on July 24, 2025, Costa answered in January 2026, and after a third mediation session the parties reached terms on April 2, 2026.

What is new now is that the deal has become real for class members: a court-authorized notice, a settlement website, an October 8, 2026 exclusion and objection deadline, and a January 20, 2027 Final Approval Hearing. If you received a Costa notice years ago under the vacated federal settlement, that deal is no longer in effect and this is a different agreement with different terms.

It is also not the only live Costa settlement. A separate $23.9 million agreement in Reed v. Costa Del Mar, Inc. is pending in federal court over a different fee — what Costa charged to fix sunglasses damaged by accident, normal wear and tear or misuse. The two cases were resolved together as a global deal, but they have separate funds, separate classes and separate deadlines, and one person can be covered by both. See our page on the Costa Del Mar $23.9M sunglasses repair fee settlement for that one.

Who Qualifies?

You are a Settlement Class Member if you are a citizen of the United States who bought a pair of non-prescription Costa sunglasses before January 1, 2016, and who paid Costa a warranty fee to repair or replace those sunglasses for damage caused by a manufacturer's defect between August 20, 2013 and February 29, 2020.

Both halves have to be true. Sunglasses bought on or after January 1, 2016 are outside the class, and so is a warranty repair paid for before August 20, 2013 or after February 29, 2020. Prescription pairs do not count. The class is nationwide and is not limited to Florida residents.

The kind of damage matters as much as the dates. This settlement covers repairs of damage Costa attributed to a manufacturer's defect — the repairs its "Lifetime Warranty" was supposed to cover. Repairs of damage from accident, normal wear and tear or misuse belong to the separate Reed settlement instead.

Excluded from the class are Costa itself, any entity or division it controls, their legal representatives, employees, officers, directors, assigns and successors, the judge and the judge's staff assigned to the lawsuit, and counsel for the parties.