Whirlpool / Maytag Freezer Drain Settlement
By the Class Action Buddy Editorial Team · Last reviewed June 29, 2026
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Who Is Eligible?
You may be eligible to file a claim if you:
- You own a Whirlpool or Maytag bottom-mount freezer refrigerator, or one of the covered french-door models. Model eligibility is decided by published Group A and Group B lists — check yours against the list at FreezerSettlement.com before doing anything else.
- Your model and serial number are on the manufacturer label inside the fresh-food compartment. You will need both.
- The refrigerator suffered a Freezing Event: the defrost drain or drain tube froze over, ice built up in the freezer, and water overflowed out of the unit rather than draining away.
- The event must have occurred on or before 31 December 2026, and you must file within 90 days of it happening. Those are two separate conditions and the second is the one people miss.
- For the labour reimbursement you also need the repair invoice. The free parts do not require one.
How Much Can You Get?
This settlement does not hand out cash from a divided fund, which is where most summaries of it go wrong. The $21 million is a benefit pool backing repairs, not a pot split between claimants.
Two things are on offer. The replacement drain tube and the related parts are free. The labour to fit them is reimbursed on a sliding scale that depends on how old the appliance was when the freezing started — reported as full parts and labour in the first three years, full parts with 65% of labour in year four, and full parts with 50% of labour in year five.
Those percentages come from the settlement notice rather than from the administrator directly: FreezerSettlement.com resolves but would not load for us, so confirm your own tier there before you commit to a repair bill.
The practical consequence is that this is worth most to someone whose freezer has failed recently and who has not yet paid for the repair. If you already paid, keep the invoice — it is the only route to the labour money.
How to File Your Claim
File with the administrator:
- Do not wait. You have 90 days from the Freezing Event, not until the end of 2026. If it happened months ago, check immediately whether you are still inside the window.
- Get the model and serial number off the label inside the fresh-food compartment. Photograph it — both numbers are needed and the label is awkward to read twice.
- Check the model against the Group A and Group B lists at FreezerSettlement.com, which is the official settlement website. If the model is not on a list, nothing else on this page applies.
- If you have already paid for a repair, find the invoice. It is required for the labour reimbursement and it is the part people cannot reproduce later.
- File through the administrator at FreezerSettlement.com. Filing is free.
- Photograph the water and the ice build-up if it happens again. A contemporaneous record of the Freezing Event is what dates your 90 days.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is the deadline to file a claim for the Whirlpool / Maytag Freezer Drain Settlement?
The current deadline to file a claim is Dec 31, 2026. Claims sent by mail must be postmarked by this date, so allow about a week for delivery if you are not filing online.
How do I file a claim for the Whirlpool / Maytag Freezer Drain Settlement?
File directly with the settlement administrator, using the official claim form linked on this page. Class Action Buddy does not support this settlement in the app, so the administrator’s own claim process is the route. You do not need a Claimant ID or PIN to file.
What is the deadline for the Whirlpool freezer settlement?
There are two dates and confusing them is the commonest mistake. You must file within 90 days of your Freezing Event — the leak itself. Separately, the Freezing Event has to occur on or before 31 December 2026. The December date is an outer boundary for the failure, not a filing deadline, so if your freezer flooded months ago your own window may already have closed.
What counts as a Freezing Event?
The settlement's term for the specific failure it covers: the defrost drain or drain tube freezes over, ice accumulates in the freezer compartment, and water that should have drained away overflows out of the unit — typically onto the kitchen floor.
What do I actually get?
A free replacement drain tube and the related parts, plus reimbursement of the labour to fit them on a scale that decreases with the age of the appliance — reported as full parts and labour in years one to three, full parts and 65% of labour in year four, and full parts and 50% of labour in year five. It is not a cash share of the $21 million; that is a benefit pool backing repairs.
Do I need proof?
You need the model and serial number from the label inside the fresh-food compartment for any claim. You additionally need the repair invoice if you are claiming the labour reimbursement. The free parts do not require an invoice.
Is this the same as the other Whirlpool refrigerator settlement?
No, and they are easy to confuse. This one is Corzine v. Maytag Corporation in the Northern District of California and covers a freezer drain defect in bottom-mount and french-door models. The other is Costa v. Whirlpool Corp. in the District of Delaware, covering a wire harness defect in side-by-side models made between 2018 and 2021, with its own administrator and its own deadline.
Primary source: official settlement administrator — freezersettlement.com. The settlement details on this page were checked against the administrator’s official website.
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