Posted February 26, 2018 2:30 pm by Comments

By Daniel Terrill

The Remington sign at the company’s booth during SHOT Show 2018 in Las Vegas. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)
Federal appellate judges appeared resistant to arguments for overturning last year’s $12.5 million class action settlement agreement over Remington Arms’ infamous Model 700 trigger design, a recording of the Feb. 14 hearing shows.
Representing two class members, attorney Sarah Westcot argued that the court approved the agreement using an incomplete dataset because Remington failed to adequately notify owners of the defective product about how they could file a claim.
“The problem here is the notice did not reach the class. There was no actual desire to inform the class. There were major problems with this notice,” she said, adding the tepid effort resulted in a dismally low response. During the claims period, fewer than half a percent of Model 700 owners participated, meaning approximately 29,000 people filed a claim.
To contact some 7.5 million owners, she argued Remington should have mailed out direct notifications rather than rely on online messaging like banner ads. “They should have first gone to the best — what is well known by notice experts everywhere — that direct mail notice gets the highest rates,” Westcot said.
She called the effort an “experiment” because

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