I guess I misinterpreted your original post. You weren't say that the negotiated agreement was that VW would pay out $2.1 B and the only thing left is to calculate how much everyone would get. You are actually saying that VW unilateral decided that they had $2.1 B to hand out and neither the class lawyers nor the court had any say in that.
Interesting. I guess under this approach we really don't need fraud and environmental laws nor Judges. We can just leave it to the Corporations to decide. Very Trumpian. Very sad.
It's a legal settlement ... so VW offered probably 1.5B to start, the class action lawyers asked for 3B ... they settled for 2.1B
The only problem is nobody knows upfront how many people will go for the buyback, so in the end, the settlement will cost them more, if xx% of people go for the buyback. I don't know what that threshold is, nor do they, exactly, since they don't know mileages on people's cars ... again they do have averages. So at the end of the day, they have a pretty accurate number for themselves, which they called good enough.
The lawsuit up here has an advantage of knowing, how many people requested buyback in the US. So at this point, VW knows it will cost them more than that (because the US buyback number is pretty staggering) ... unless Canadians want to keep driving their TDI's in much larger numbers than in the US.