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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001874178-25-000048"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RIVN"
cik: "0001874178"
company_name: "Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE"
filed_at: "2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T02:22:14.855114+00:00"
event_type: "litigation"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
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confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rivian agrees to pay $250M to settle 2022 securities class action

## Summary
- Settlement covers claims from stock purchases between Nov 10, 2021 and Mar 10, 2022; court approval required.
- Rivian denies allegations and states settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing; cites focus on R2 launch.
- Payment funded by $67M from D&O insurance and $183M from cash on hand.
- Case: Crews v. Rivian Automotive, Inc. et al., Case No. 2:22-cv-01524-JLS-E in Central District of California.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001874178-25-000048
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RIVN
- cik: 0001874178
- company_name: Rivian Automotive, Inc. / DE
- filed_at: 2025-10-24T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: litigation
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000048/0001874178-25-000048-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1874178/000187417825000048/rivn-20251023.htm

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