If you or anyone you know owned or operated a direct-served Exxon service station at any time between March 1983 and August 1994, you may be entitled to recover money. 

You should read these materials carefully.

This web site is sponsored by the attorneys for a class of current and former direct-served Exxon dealers who won a very large jury verdict against Exxon Corporation.  In the case, the dealers proved that, in connection with its Discount for Cash (DFC) program, Exxon overcharged its dealers on every gallon of gas they purchased.  After  the dealers won at trial and survived appeals by Exxon all the way to the United States Supreme Court, the case was settled with Exxon for $1.075 billion.  The claims process, designed to ensure that the rightful claimants recover in the correct amount, is ongoing.  The average claim is worth more than $100,000.

This site is designed to provide you with information about the case and to assist you in pursuing your claim.

 

 

In memoriam, Janie Manning, 1945-2007.

Janie Manning started working at the law firm of Stearns Weaver Miller over 33 years ago as the Executive Assistant to Eugene Stearns (lead counsel in the Allapattah v. Exxon case and the firm’s President and Chairman of the Board). Janie was an integral part of the team which won the case and obtained a $1.1 billion settlement on behalf of the dealers.  Her commitment to her work, her friends, and her family was extraordinary, and she will be deeply missed.

-- The lawyers and staff at Stearns Weaver Miller

 In memoriam, Antonio R. Menendez, 1946-2004.

Proving how Exxon used Discount for Cash as a device to reduce dealer incomes and force dealers out of business required a comprehensive analysis of twelve years of Exxon's pricing records in every market in which it did business. The daunting task of unraveling Exxon's pricing data fell on the shoulders of Antonio Menendez, one of the lawyers on the Exxon trial team with a rich background in statistics, computer technololgy and esoteric software applications. The volume and complexity of Exxon's pricing data would have been, to most normal people, overwhelming. Tony was not a normal person. Through tireless, dogged determination, boundless intellect and insatiable curiosity, Tony unlocked the Exxon codes, helping to reveal the cynical and bad faith pricing scheme Exxon dubbed "Discount for Cash.

Tony did not live to see the end of his effort, having lost a long battle with cancer in April of this year. Thankfully, he lived long enough to see the Eleventh Circuit's denial of Exxon's last attempt to set aside the jury verdict. To his family, his friends and clients, and to the attorneys and staff who knew Tony as partner and friend, his passing is a tragedy of the greatest measure. To the thousands of Exxon dealers who will soon recover some small measure of recompense for Exxon's duplicity, who owe a large part of their success to him, their tragedy is not having the opportunity to know him or thank him. Tony, we miss you.

-- The lawyers and staff at Stearns Weaver Miller 

 
 
 



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