A Swedish court has ordered Google to pay Klarna subsidiary PriceRunner approximately $1.47 billion in antitrust damages, delivering one of the largest civil judgments in Swedish legal history.
A claim that kept growing
PriceRunner originally filed its antitrust damages lawsuit against Google in Sweden’s Patent and Market Court in 2022. What started as a roughly $2.4 billion demand ballooned to approximately $8.3 billion by the time the case went to trial in late 2025, making it the largest civil claim in Swedish history.
The trial itself ran from October 20 to December 19, 2025. The verdict was initially expected in April, then pushed to June, before finally landing on July 1, 2026.
While PriceRunner asked for $8.3 billion, the court awarded roughly $1.47 billion. For context, it dwarfs the original European Commission fine of approximately 2.42 billion euros that started this whole chain of events back in 2017.
