Antitrust Lawsuit Alleges Price Fixing in Rental Equipment Market
CHICAGO – April 17, 2025 – DiCello Levitt has filed a class action lawsuit against several major rental equipment companies on behalf of Immediate Appliance Service, Inc, a leading appliance repair company based in New Jersey. The lawsuit alleges that the defendants have engaged in anticompetitive practices in the rental equipment market.
The complaint, filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claims the defendants, including RB Global, Inc., Rouse Services LLC, United Rentals, Inc., Sunbelt Rentals, Inc., Herc Holdings Inc., H&E Equipment Services Inc., Sunstate Equipment Co., LLC, and The Home Depot, Inc., conspired to fix, raise, maintain, and stabilize rental prices for various rental equipment used in construction, manufacturing, entertainment, and other industries.
Immediate Appliance Service, Inc. alleges that it has experienced higher prices due to the defendants’ actions. The complaint details how the defendants exchanged competitively sensitive information through Rouse Services, facilitating an unlawful conspiracy to fix rental prices of equipment ranging from air compressors and generators to forklifts and excavators, among other equipment.
The class action seeks to represent those who rented equipment from defendants as early as March 31, 2021, and, because of defendants’ unlawful practices, paid “supracompetitive” prices for such rentals.
The case is Immediate Appliance Service, Inc. v. RB Global, Inc., et al., Case: 1:25-cv-04139 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. A copy of the complaint is available here.
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