The class action never had any real leverage because Norcold/Thetford doesn't seem to care about their reputation or their product. Hardly anyone is buying high-end Norcolds anymore, or even replacement cooling units for them, yet Norcold rolls blithely on. Apparently the near total loss of their market share is not important to their business? Maybe they figure the absorption fridge business is a goner anyway, superseded by the improvements to compressor-based refrigeration and high energy battery packs, and they have already written it off? Or maybe they are just arrogant? That seems to be what JLE Seminole believes, I would be hard-pressed to disagree with him on that point.
Realistically, not many people suffered actual losses and except for a few litigants they have already been compensated, by their own insurance and [I hear] sometimes with secret supplementary settlements from Norcold. I've also been told by a knowledgeable source that Norcold has indemnified insurance companies that had to pay claims on Norcold fires, so that those companies would not join in the attack. Most of the rest of the monetary loss is by people who feared fires and replaced or modified their fridge proactively. Since Norcold denies there is any valid reason to do so, they will treat them as nuisance claims to be paid off as cheaply as possible.