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Wellstar’s $4.25 Million MyChart Pixel Settlement Is $4.89 per Patient on Paper. About 870,000 People Are in the Class, Email Is the Primary Notice, and Only Those Who File Split What Is Left After the Lawyers’ Third. Claims Close November 10.
Doe v. Wellstar Health System, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-01748, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Judge J.P. Boulee. The lawsuit says tracking pixels, cookies and similar tools on Wellstar’s website and its Wellstar MyChart patient portal sent patients’ information to third parties including Meta and Google between February 19, 2020 and July 22, 2026. Wellstar denies it. The settlement puts $4,250,000 into a non-reversionary fund; class counsel will ask for one third. What remains is split in equal shares among the people who file. The administrator is Epiq; the court-approved site is WellstarDataPrivacySettlement.com. Opt-outs and objections are due October 26, claims November 10, 2026; the final approval hearing is December 1.
Labcorp Is Paying 44 Attorneys General $2,287,455 Over the 2019 AMCA Breach — About 22 Cents per Affected Patient, Paid to the States, With No Claim Form. The Patients’ Own $35 Million Settlement Stopped Taking Claims on September 3.
On September 24, 2026, a coalition of 44 attorneys general led by Connecticut announced a $2.3 million settlement with the Laboratory Corporation of America. It resolves their investigation into the 2019 breach at Labcorp’s debt collector, the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), which the states say reached 10.2 million Labcorp patients. Labcorp pays $2,287,455.00 “to the states” and accepts new rules for how it vets and supervises debt collectors and other vendors. Neither the Connecticut nor the Colorado announcement describes any payment to patients or any claim process. Patients’ money came from a separate $35 million class action settlement. It was finally approved on August 20, and its claim deadline of September 3, 2026 has passed.
3.7 Million Hyundais and Kias Are in the $62.1 Million Airbag Settlement, and 79,674 Claims Had Come In by September 2025. Up to $350 for a Recalled Car, $150 for the Rest — Claims Run to April 8, 2027, and No Payout Date Exists Yet
In re: ZF-TRW Airbag Control Units Products Liability Litigation, Case No. 2:19-ml-02905-JAK, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Judge John A. Kronstadt. On October 8, 2025 the court granted final approval of a $62.1 million settlement with Hyundai, Kia and Hyundai Mobis over ZF-TRW airbag control units that plaintiffs say can suffer electrical overstress in a crash and stop the airbags from deploying. The class: anyone who owned or leased one of the listed 2010–2023 Hyundai and Kia models on or before April 14, 2025 — about 3.73 million VINs, 1.09 million of them recalled. Every claimant can register for a per-capita residual payment of up to $350 (recalled vehicles) or up to $150 (unrecalled), plus, for recalled cars, reimbursement of documented recall costs such as rentals, towing, childcare and lost wages. The claim deadline is April 8, 2027 — not the March 29, 2027 date some sites still show. There is no payout date: reimbursements follow the “Effective Date,” which the administrator has not announced, and the residual is paid only after all reimbursements. The official site is ACUSettlement.com/hyundaikia, run by JND Legal Administration. This is not the Kia/Hyundai theft settlement.
GM Fuel Pump Settlement Checks Went Out March 23 and August 31, 2026: The $50 Million Duramax CP4 Deal Has Paid Its Two Funds — The August Round Paid Claims Cured After Deficiency Notices, and the Last 50% Repair Refunds Still Have No Date
Chapman, et al. v. General Motors LLC, No. 2:19-cv-12333-TGB-DRG, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, Judge Terrence G. Berg, final approval May 6, 2025. The $50 million settlement over the Bosch CP4 high-pressure fuel pump covered people who bought a 2011–2016 Chevrolet Silverado or GMC Sierra with the 6.6L Duramax diesel from a GM-authorized dealer in California, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, New York, Pennsylvania or Texas between March 1, 2010 and September 13, 2024. After $15 million in fees, $30 million went to owners who paid for CP4 repairs (estimated $6,356 to $12,712 per repair) and $5 million to former owners (estimated $400 to $800). The official site, GMFuelPumpLitigation.com, run by JND Legal Administration, says initial payments were issued on March 23, 2026 and additional and residual payments on August 31, 2026. Claims closed November 6, 2025; the separate 50% refund program for dealer repairs ended May 6, 2026, with requests due by July 5, 2026, and the last wave of refund checks has no timeline. No actual payment amounts have been published. The “$35M GM fuel pump settlement” is this same case; Ford’s CP4 trucks are not in it.
Urban One’s $675,000 Data Breach Settlement Won Final Approval on September 25: About 13,778 People, $48.99 a Head, and a No-Proof Payment Capped at $500 That the Fund Can Pay in Full to No More Than About 890 of Them. Claims Close October 12.
Gomian Konneh v. Urban One, Inc., Case No. 8:25-cv-01460-PX, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge Paula Xinis. On September 25, 2026 the judge granted final approval: Urban One, the Silver Spring, Maryland media company whose brands include Radio One and TV One, will pay $675,000 into a non-reversionary fund over the cyberattack it discovered on or around March 15, 2025. Its breach letter says the attackers took employees’ names, home addresses, Social Security numbers, direct deposit information and W-2 information. The settlement agreement puts the class at approximately 13,778 people — $48.99 per person by our arithmetic, or $32.39 after the court-approved fees and service award. Class members choose documented losses and lost time up to $10,000, or a no-proof pro rata payment capped at $500, and can add three years of CyEx three-bureau credit monitoring. The court-approved site is UrbanOneDataIncident.com, run by the administrator Simpluris. Claims close October 12, 2026 — online, by email, or by mail postmarked that day. The opt-out and objection deadline, September 12, has passed; the court’s order records no opt-outs and no objections.
DAP Health’s $1.3 Million Breach Settlement Covers 129,973 People — $10 a Head Before Fees. The $25 Is an Estimate Paid Last, After Lawyers, Administration, Monitoring, Receipts and a $75 California Payment. Final Hearing October 1, Claims Close October 21.
Donald Crosslin and Matthew Paone v. DAP Health, Inc., Case No. CVRI2500186, Superior Court of California, County of Riverside, Judge Harold W. Hopp. The judge preliminarily approved the settlement on June 8, 2026: DAP Health, the Palm Springs nonprofit health provider, will pay $1,300,000 — funded by its insurer, Tokio Marine HCC — into a non-reversionary fund over the intrusion into its email system that it detected on July 22, 2024. The settlement counts approximately 129,973 class members, which is $10.00 per person before a dollar is spent, by our arithmetic. Class members can stack up to four benefits: documented losses up to $5,000, a no-proof pro rata payment Class Counsel estimate at $25, an extra $75 for people who lived in California on July 22, 2024, and two years of credit and medical record monitoring. Postcards carrying a 10-character Unique ID and 4-digit PIN come from the administrator, Epiq; the court-approved site is DAPDataSettlement.com. Opt-outs and objections closed on September 1; the final approval hearing is October 1, 2026 at 8:30 a.m. PT; claims close October 21, 2026.
People Who Used LiveHealth Online’s Appointment Booking Tool Between October 2024 and August 2025 Can Claim a Share of $2.04 Million. The $51 to $102 Estimate Matches What Happens If Only 5 to 10 of Every 100 Eligible People File, by Our Math — Claims Close October 30.
Polk v. American Well Corp., Case No. 25CV026746, Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento. On July 31, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a $2,037,751.46 non-reversionary settlement with American Well Corp. (Amwell), the telehealth company whose platform runs LiveHealth Online, the virtual-care service of Elevance Health, formerly Anthem. The lawsuit says Amwell let a third party, Heap Inc., intercept users’ communications on LiveHealth Online’s website and apps, including personal and health information; Amwell denies it. The class is nationwide: everyone in the United States who used the appointment booking tool on livehealthonline.com or the LiveHealth Online iOS or Android app between October 2024 and August 2025 — about 252,478 people, according to Amwell’s records. Every approved claim gets the same share, which the notice estimates at “approximately $51.14 to $102.29”. No documents are needed. Claims, opt-outs and objections are due October 30, 2026; the final approval hearing is January 15, 2027. The court-approved website is LiveHealthOnlineSettlement.com, run by the administrator Simpluris.
The “Service Spot” Settlement Email Is Real. It Is About the Reservation Fee ParkOn.com and CheapAirportParking.org Added at Checkout — $500,000 for About 200,000 Californians Who Paid Roughly $1.2 Million in Fees. Claims Close December 17.
Jasher, et al. v. Service Spot, LLC, et al., Case No. 2025-017619-CA-01, Circuit Court of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida, Judge Thomas J. Rebull. The court preliminarily approved a $500,000 non-reversionary settlement on February 19, 2026 and issued an amended order on February 26, 2026. Service Spot, LLC runs ParkOn.com; TripGate LLC runs CheapAirportParking.org. The lawsuit says both sites added a mandatory “Reservation Fee” at checkout that was not part of the advertised parking price, in violation of California’s Honest Pricing Law (SB 478), in force since July 1, 2024; the companies deny it. The class is California residents who booked on either site and paid the fee between July 1, 2024 and June 9, 2025 — about 200,000 people who paid about $1.2 million in fees, according to the companies. Each claimant’s share is sized by the fees the companies’ records show they paid; no receipts are needed. The notice is genuine if it points to ServiceSpotSettlement.com, a domain registered to Epiq Systems, the court-appointed administrator, and carries a 10-character Unique ID and a 4-digit PIN. The opt-out and objection deadline passed on May 4, 2026. The final approval hearing is November 2, 2026 by Zoom; claims close December 17, 2026.
Military Families Who Took Pawn Loans From FirstCash Get Back 120% of What They Paid in Fees — or the Fees Plus the Full Loan Amount if They Lost the Item. There Is No Claim Form: The CFPB's First List Alone Named 42,698 Loans, the Payment-Choice Window Is 30 Days From the Letter, and No Payment Date Has Been Published.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. FirstCash, Inc., et al., Case No. 4:21-cv-01251-P, United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, Judge Mark T. Pittman. This is not a class action but a government enforcement case. On July 11, 2025 the court entered a Stipulated Final Judgment and Order against FirstCash, Inc. and 19 subsidiaries — several of them named Cash America — over pawn loans to active-duty servicemembers and their dependents that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said broke the Military Lending Act. FirstCash neither admitted nor denied the allegations. The order sets no capped fund; it requires redress for every loan on the agreed list: 120% of the fees, interest and charges if the borrower redeemed the item, or all fees and charges plus the full principal if the item was not redeemed. FirstCash had to reserve an initial $5,000,000 and add more if needed, estimates the total at no more than $7 million, and separately paid a $4,000,000 civil penalty. Covered loans run from October 3, 2016 to six months after the order — January 11, 2026; the CFPB’s first list named 42,698 loans. Nobody files a claim: the CFPB and FirstCash decide who is paid, and people on the list get a mailed redress notice. Within 30 days of receiving it they can choose PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or a virtual prepaid card at FirstCashSettlement.com; ClaimDepot gives September 20, 2026 as that deadline. Doing nothing means a paper check. The administrator’s FAQ says the eligibility process “is ongoing” and names no payment date.
Lincoln University Settled Its Spring 2020 Tuition Case for $169,500 — $100 a Student on Paper, About $52.84 After Lawyers and Costs, or 1.3% of a $4,000 Semester. It Is the Pennsylvania School, the 1,695 Automatic Payments Were Due, by Our Count, Around December 19, 2025, and the Settlement Website Still Calls the Deal “Proposed.”
Dixon v. Lincoln University, Civil Action No. 2:24-cv-01057-KSM, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Karen S. Marston. This is Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania — not another school with Lincoln in its name. A former student sued in March 2024, saying Lincoln kept full Spring 2020 tuition and fees after it closed its campus and moved classes online in March 2020; Lincoln denied it and admitted no liability. The court granted final approval of a $169,500 settlement on September 18, 2025, dismissed the case with prejudice and closed it. The class: students enrolled in at least one in-person class in Spring 2020 who did not withdraw by March 12, 2020 and whose tuition or fees were not fully refunded — 1,695 people, identified from Lincoln’s records, none of whom opted out or objected. There was never a claim form: everyone gets an equal share by check at the address on file with the Registrar, or by Venmo or PayPal for those who chose it. After fees of $56,494.35, costs, a $750 service award and administration, the judge estimated about $52.84 per student. Under the agreement, payments were due within 60 days of the judgment becoming final — by our count about December 19, 2025 — but neither the court record we could see nor the website at LincolnCovidSettlement.com confirms that checks went out. The administrator is RG/2 Claims Administration, (866) 742-4955.
5.4 Million My Little Steamers Were Recalled in May 2021 — and the Claim Form Is Still Online in September 2026. A 2018–2020 Receipt Gets a Full Refund; With No Receipt, a Photo of a Cut Cord Gets an $8 HSN Voucher.
Fiore v. Ingenious Designs, LLC, No. 1:18-cv-07124, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, Magistrate Judge Steven L. Tiscione. The court finally approved the settlement on September 10, 2021 and closed the case; the docket shows no appeal. It covers everyone who bought a Joy/JM-branded My Little Steamer from January 1, 2002 through December 31, 2020, and it runs together with a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall announced on May 26, 2021 for about 5.4 million steamers, after HSN received 227 reports of hot water spraying or leaking, including 106 reports of burn injuries. The benefits are identical under both: a full refund of the purchase price for steamers bought new from January 2018 through December 2020 with proof of purchase, $8 per Go Mini or $12 per Deluxe bought new from January 2015 through December 2017, and an $8 HSN voucher per unit for anything older or without proof of purchase. Every claim needs a photo of the steamer marked with permanent marker and its cord cut. The court-approved notice lists “No Deadline to file a Claim,” and as of September 27, 2026 the official site, SteamerRecallSettlement.com, run by the administrator Epiq, still takes claims online and by mail — even though the settlement agreement and the court’s preliminary approval order both set a 120-day claim window, which by our count ran out in early 2022. The court-approved $975,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs is owed by the defendants separately and reduces no refund.
The Nationals Gave Fans Aged 21 to 39 Up to 30% Off. Fans 40 and Older Settled for Ticket Credit Estimated at $205.99 on Average — or $44.48 in Cash. The Credit Covers Home Games Within One Year, and the Last 2026 Home Game Is September 27.
Nick Snyder, et al. v. Washington Nationals Baseball Club, LLC, Civil Action No. 1:24-cv-01182 (CJN), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Carl J. Nichols. The court granted final approval on September 12, 2025 with no objections and no opt-outs, and dismissed the case with prejudice. The settlement covers fans who were 40 or older when they bought a single-game ticket directly from the Nationals between March 29, 2023 and March 28, 2024 for a seat in a section where the team’s “Millennial” or “Young Professional” discount applied — up to 30% off plus a $5 to $15 per-ticket credit, offered only to fans aged 21 to 39. The claims were age discrimination under the D.C. Human Rights Act and the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act. Each class member gets ticket credit worth the greater of $18 or twice their damages per purchase, or, if they filed for it, cash worth 62.2% of their damages; the settlement is worth $3 million if everyone takes credit and $800,000 if everyone takes cash. Before final approval the administrator estimated the average at $205.99 in credit or $44.48 in cash. The claim deadline, December 12, 2025 according to the official site NatsDiscountTicketSettlement.com, has passed. The site has posted no update on payments, and under the agreement each credit must be used for a home game scheduled within one year of the day it lands in the fan’s MLB.com account.
Southwest and American Put $60 Million Into the Domestic Airline Antitrust Settlement. More Than Seven Years After Approval, No Class Member Has Been Paid — the Money Waits Until Delta and United Settle, Win or Lose, and Their Class-Certification Fight Runs Into August 2027
In re Domestic Airline Travel Antitrust Litigation, MDL No. 2656, Misc. No. 15-1404 (CKK), U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Southwest Airlines paid $15 million and American Airlines $45 million to settle claims that the four largest U.S. carriers conspired to limit capacity on domestic flights and raise fares; the court granted final approval on May 13, 2019. The Southwest class covers domestic tickets bought from American, Delta, Southwest, United, Continental or US Airways from July 1, 2011 to December 20, 2017; the American class runs to June 14, 2018. Nobody has been paid and there is no claim form: the administrator’s FAQ says “No money is being distributed at this time” and “THE CLAIMS PERIOD HAS NOT YET BEGUN.” The money stays in escrow until the case against Delta and United ends — by settlement, dismissal or a verdict. That case is still before trial: on September 29, 2025 the judge refused to let Delta and United appeal her 2023 denial of summary judgment, plaintiffs moved to certify a class against the two airlines on May 7, 2026, and briefing now runs to August 2, 2027. There is no payout date and no trial date. The official site, DomesticAirClass.com, maintained by Rust Consulting (1-866-459-3634), lets you register for future notices; its status box was last updated December 13, 2023.
The UFC’s $375 Million Settlement Has Paid $237.4 Million to 984 of 1,088 Fighters, With a Projected Median of $85,864 — 104 Are Still Held Up by Bank Details, Legal Disputes and Sanctions Rules. Fans Were Never in the Class, and the Post-2017 Fighters’ Case Has No Trial Date
Le, et al. v. Zuffa, LLC d/b/a Ultimate Fighting Championship and UFC, No. 2:15-cv-01045-RFB-BNW, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada, Judge Richard F. Boulware II. The judge approved the $375 million settlement at the fairness hearing on February 6, 2025 and signed the written Final Judgment on March 3, 2025; the UFC finished paying in June 2025, according to its parent company TKO. Only fighters are in the class: people who competed in one or more live professional UFC-promoted bouts held or broadcast in the U.S. from December 16, 2010 to June 30, 2017. Claims closed June 16, 2025; 1,088 of the 1,121 class members who were mailed claim forms filed, and the court ordered the money distributed on October 3, 2025. The administrator’s latest update, dated March 31, 2026 and still the newest on the official site on September 27, 2026, reports $237,386,515.53 paid to 984 claimants in 44 countries; 104 payments are held up by bank queries, payment-instruction errors, legal disputes and U.S. sanctions rules, and no date is given for them. Fans and pay-per-view buyers get nothing from this settlement. A separate proposed fan class action, Costantino v. Zuffa, filed February 26, 2026, has no settlement and faces a motion to compel arbitration. Fighters from July 1, 2017 on are covered by the proposed class in Johnson v. Zuffa, No. 2:21-cv-01189, which has no certified class, no trial date and an evidence-destruction hearing set for October 8–9, 2026. Official site: UFCFighterClassAction.com, run by Angeion Group, 1-866-955-5564.
NIBCO Paid Leak Victims 25% First and Promised Up to 70% at the End. Seven Years After Approval, the Administrator Said an Estimated Last 45% Would Start Going Out by July 30, 2026 — Paid Only on Claims Filed by October 13, 2025
Kimberly Cole, et al. v. NIBCO, Inc., Civil Action No. 3:13-cv-07871, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, resolved together with Meadow v. NIBCO Inc., No. 3:15-cv-1124 (M.D. Tenn.). Judge Freda L. Wolfson granted final approval on April 11, 2019 to a settlement of up to $43.5 million for owners of U.S. homes and buildings containing NIBCO PEX 1006 tubing, F1807 yellow brass fittings or NIBCO stainless steel clamps at any time since January 1, 2005. It pays up to 70% of documented, unreimbursed leak damage — 25% first, the rest at the end — or a re-plumb calculated at $600 per fixture, capped at $16,000, paid at the same percentages. The claim period ended May 16, 2025; the last day to file was October 13, 2025. In a notice dated July 15, 2026 the administrator said supplemental payments of an estimated 45% of each approved claim would go out on a rolling basis beginning by July 30, 2026, bringing every paid claimant to the 70% maximum; approved claims never paid get a single 70% payment. Checks are valid for 180 days, and money left over returns to NIBCO. The court-authorized site is PexSystemSettlement.com, run by Angeion Group (1-855-649-5968).
Autobell’s Car Wash Breach Settlement Pays a Flat $45 — Not an Estimate, No Pro Rata Cut — to Any of 52,714 Notified People Who Files. The Complaint Says They Are Current and Former Workers, Not Customers, at a Chain That Employs About 3,000 a Year. Up to $5,000 With Receipts; Claims Close November 12.
Pauken v. Autobell Car Wash, LLC, File No. 26CV006404-590, Superior Court of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. A Special Superior Court Judge signed the preliminary approval order on July 8, 2026. The case is about a cyberattack on the Charlotte car wash chain’s network between April 1 and April 7, 2024 that reached files with names and Social Security numbers of approximately 52,714 people — described in the complaint as current or former Autobell employees. Every class member can claim two years of three-bureau credit monitoring, plus either documented losses up to $5,000 (including up to four hours at $25) or a flat $45 with no proof. There is no settlement fund, and we found no overall cap or pro rata clause in the agreement, so the $45 does not shrink if many people file. The administrator is RG/2 Claims Administration; the court-approved site is AutobellDataSettlement.com. Opt-outs and objections are due October 13; the final approval hearing is November 9; claims close November 12, 2026.
American Vision Partners Says 1.6 Million People Were Hit by Its 2023 Breach. Only About 258,070 of Them — Those Whose Social Security Numbers Were Exposed — Can Claim Cash From the $1.75 Million Settlement: Up to $3,000 With Receipts or a Pro Rata Share Without, Not Both. That Is $6.78 per Eligible Person Before Fees, by Our Arithmetic. Claims Close November 12, 2026.
Hulewat et al. v. Medical Management Resource Group LLC d/b/a American Vision Partners, et al., Case No. 2:24-cv-00377-DJH, United States District Court for the District of Arizona, Judge Diane J. Humetewa. The Arizona eye-care management company discovered the cyberattack on or about November 14, 2023; the court-authorized notice puts the people affected at about 1,600,000. The $1,750,000 fund is non-reversionary, but only the Damages Settlement Class — about 258,070 U.S. residents whose Social Security numbers and other personal information were compromised — can file for money: either documented out-of-pocket losses up to $3,000, or a pro rata cash payment. Everyone whose information the company holds — the 258,070 included — is also in an Injunctive Relief Class that receives security commitments the notice values at about $2,787,630, paid separately; for the roughly 1.34 million people outside the Damages Class, that is the only benefit. Claims are due online or postmarked by November 12, 2026; opt-outs and objections by October 13, 2026; the final fairness hearing is December 10, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. MT in Phoenix. The official site is AmericanVisionSettlement.com, run by Kroll Settlement Administration; the line is (833) 630-5366.
Suffolk County Added a $30 Fee to Red-Light Camera Tickets From 2013 — and Kept Charging It Until 2023, Almost Three Years After a Court Declared It Void. The Settlement Pays Back $36 per Fee — Up to $45 Million, but Only to Drivers Who File by December 8, 2026. What Nobody Claims Stays With the County, and the Lawyers Ask $12.5 Million on Top.
McGrath v. Suffolk County, et al., Index No. 608155/2016, Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Suffolk. The suit said New York’s Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1111-b caps liability for a red-light camera violation at $50, and that Suffolk County and its Traffic and Parking Violation Agency charged an unlawful $30 administrative fee on top of each fine. The court declared the excess charge void on April 27, 2020 and enjoined it; the county stopped imposing it on January 25, 2023. The county denies wrongdoing and is pursuing an appeal of certain rulings, but agreed to settle: every class member who files a valid claim gets $36 for each $30 fee paid, from a maximum of $45,000,000. The deal is “claims made” — the county pays only valid claims, and uncashed checks go back to it. Claims are due online or postmarked by December 8, 2026; opt-outs and objections by November 9, 2026; the fairness hearing is also December 8, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. The official site is SuffolkRedLightSettlement.com, run by Kroll Settlement Administration; the line is (833) 447-6790.
California Forbes Readers Have Been Getting Emails About a $10 Million Tracker Settlement. It Is Not the Old $15 Video Case — and Whether a Claim Pays About $186 or About $31 Depends on How Many of 3.9 Million People File by November 9.
Berman, et al. v. Forbes Media LLC, Case No. 3:24-cv-09287-WHO, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge William H. Orrick. On June 11, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a $10,000,000 non-reversionary settlement over trackers on Forbes websites — the complaint names the LinkedIn Insight Tag, Microsoft's Bing UET tag and Xandr's Adnx tracker — that allegedly sent visitors' IP addresses and other identifiers to third parties without consent, in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. The class is California residents only: people living in California who accessed a Forbes-owned website between December 20, 2023 and June 11, 2026 and had that data shared. The plaintiffs estimate about 3.9 million of them. The court-approved email template carries the subject line “Forbes Media Websites - Class Action Settlement Notice” and a Class Member ID; the only authorized website is MediaSiteTrackerSettlement.com, run by Kroll Settlement Administration. This is not the older Forbes video-privacy (VPPA) settlement, which offered up to $15 and stopped taking claims on November 4, 2025. There is one kind of payment: a pro rata cash share, no documents, one sworn statement that you accessed Forbes.com while in California. The plaintiffs' papers estimate “approximately $32 to $189” per approved claim at claims rates of 1% to 6%. Opt-outs and objections closed on September 24; claims close November 9, 2026; the final approval hearing is December 2, 2026 in San Francisco.
Navy Federal Turned Down About 1,607 Members Who Said Scammers Took Out Loans in Their Names. Now It Has Agreed to Cancel and Refund Up to an Estimated $8 Million — and Pay $250 More Only to Those Who Sign a One-Line Form by November 29
Stacy Edey et al. v. Navy Federal Credit Union, Civil Action No. 2:25-cv-554, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division, Senior U.S. District Judge Arenda L. Wright Allen. On July 10, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a settlement for approximately 1,607 Navy Federal members who, between January 1, 2023 and January 31, 2025, had a personal loan opened in their name from a device Navy Federal did not recognize, disputed it as fraud, and were turned down in whole or in part. There is no cash pool to split. Instead the relief is automatic: the loan is canceled, Navy Federal asks Equifax, Experian and TransUnion to delete it, and every payment on it — including money Navy Federal took from members’ other accounts as an offset — is refunded. The magistrate judge’s report puts the total at “as much as $8,000,000.00”, with the canceled loans alone expected to exceed $6 million. On top of that, every class member who returns a one-line claim form gets a flat $250. The court-authorized site is NFCULoanSettlement.com, run by American Legal Claims Services. Deadlines: opt-outs postmarked, and objections filed with the Clerk of Court, by November 9, 2026; claim forms postmarked or filed online by November 29, 2026 (the Sunday after Thanksgiving); final approval hearing December 9, 2026 at noon in Norfolk. Class counsel will ask for $250,000 in fees, paid by Navy Federal on top of the class relief.
Raging Waters Ticket Buyers Paid About $1.5 Million in Processing Fees, by Our Math. The $850,000 Settlement Would Leave $483,200 to Share If the Court Grants Every Request — Roughly $3 Back per $1 of Fees If One Buyer in Ten Files. Claims Close November 24.
Velazquez v. Festival Fun Parks, LLC, Case No. 24STCV20667, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Judge Elihu M. Berle. On July 6, 2026 the court preliminarily approved an $850,000 non-reversionary settlement for everyone living in the United States who bought admission tickets on ragingwaters.com between June 1, 2020 and June 22, 2026 and paid a “Processing Fee” — roughly 157,000 people — 157,737 is the class size the administrator priced its work on; the delivery rates in the final-approval motion imply about 156,300. The lawsuit said the fee, $4.00 a ticket in the June 2024 checkout screens shown in the complaint, surfaced only several screens into checkout. The court-authorized site is RagingWatersSettlement.com, run by Angeion Group, and the notice emails sent under the court’s order are genuine. There is one benefit: a cash share of what is left after lawyers and administration — $483,200.81 if the court grants every request — divided in proportion to the processing fees each claimant paid, as shown in Festival Fun Parks’ own sales records. No receipts are needed, and one claim form covers every order. The papers promise no amount per person; by our arithmetic it works out to roughly $3 for every $1 in fees if one class member in ten files, and about $1.60 if one in five does. Claims close November 24, 2026. Opt-outs and objections must be postmarked by Monday, September 28. The final approval hearing is November 9, 2026.
The University of Hawaii Settlement Email Is Real — and Its $50 Estimate Only Holds If Fewer Than About 4% of the 1.2 Million People Notified File. $3.5 Million Fund, Claims Close November 2.
In re University of Hawaiʻi Data Breach Litigation, Civil No. 1CCV-26-0000280 (SRN), Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaiʻi, Judge Steven R. Nichols. The judge granted preliminary approval on June 19, 2026: the University of Hawaii will pay $3,500,000 into a non-reversionary fund to settle claims over the ransomware attack on its Cancer Center’s epidemiology research servers, discovered on or about August 31, 2025. The court-approved notice goes out by email or postcard with a 10-character Unique ID and 4-digit PIN; the safe route is to type the site address yourself — the university’s own incident page links to the settlement site, UHDataSettlement.com, run by Epiq. Every class member can claim one year of CyEx medical data monitoring plus one cash option: documented fraud or identity-theft losses up to $5,000, or a no-proof payment the notice puts at “the estimated amount of $50.00.” The court’s order counts approximately 1,200,000 class members, which is $2.92 per person before a single fee is paid, by our arithmetic. Claims close November 2, 2026, online or postmarked; the opt-out and objection deadline is October 19; the final approval hearing is November 4 at 9:00 a.m. in Honolulu.
A Breach Letter From a Bank You May Not Recognize: FinWise’s $2.8 Million Settlement Covers Up to 668,000 People, Many of Them American First Finance Customers — $4.19 of Fund per Person Before Fees and Costs; California Cash Claims Paid Double. Claims Close October 29.
Minter et al. v. FinWise Bank, FinWise Bancorp and American First Finance, Case No. 2:25-cv-00569-JNP-CMR, U.S. District Court for the District of Utah, Judge Jill N. Parrish. On July 1, 2026, Judge Parrish preliminarily approved a $2,800,000 non-reversionary fund resolving claims over a data incident at FinWise Bank on or about May 31, 2024 — one FinWise attributes to a former employee who accessed its data after leaving. Letters dated July 29, 2025 reached many people who never dealt with FinWise directly but had, or applied for, an installment loan, lease-to-own or retail installment account through American First Finance, the fintech that runs the application platform for, and services, the installment loans FinWise originates and funds. The court-authorized site is FinWiseDataSettlement.com, run by Epiq. Each class member picks documented losses up to $5,000 or a no-proof pro rata cash payment — doubled for people who lived in California at the time of the incident — and can add two years of three-bureau credit monitoring. No per-person cash estimate is published. The court’s order puts the class at as many as 668,000 people, which is $4.19 a head before fees, by our arithmetic. Claims close October 29, 2026; opt-out and objection close September 29; the final approval hearing is December 10.
Dartmouth's $750,000 Oracle Breach Settlement Covers 96,911 People — $7.74 a Head in the Fund — and Its $75 Estimate Only Survives Up to Roughly 5,300 Cash Claims. 2,987 Forms Were Already In by September 18. Claims Close October 21.
In re Oracle Corporation Data Breach Litigation (Dartmouth), Case No. 1:25-cv-01805-ADA-SH, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, Judge Alan D. Albright. Trustees of Dartmouth College will pay $750,000 into a non-reversionary fund to settle claims over the Oracle E-Business Suite theft that Dartmouth says took files between August 9 and August 12, 2025; its letters went out from November 24, 2025. Judge Albright granted preliminary approval on July 1, 2026. The court-authorized site is OracleDartmouthDataSettlement.com, run by Epiq. Every class member can claim documented out-of-pocket losses up to $5,000, a no-proof “pro rata” payment the notice puts at “the estimated amount of $75”, and two years of one-bureau credit monitoring — all three together, not one or the other. The number the notice leaves out is the one you need to judge the $75: the administrator counted 96,911 unique class members, which makes the fund $7.74 a head before the one-third fee class counsel have requested. File online with the Unique ID and PIN from your email or postcard by October 21, 2026, 11:59 p.m. CT, or by mail. Opt-out and objection close October 6; the final approval hearing is November 5 at 9:00 a.m. CT in Austin. This settlement covers only Dartmouth's notice recipients — not other Oracle customers, and not Oracle's separate $115 million privacy case.
Joint Juice Claimants Say the $90 Million Settlements Are Paying by Emailed Check. In New York They Report $402.78 — by Our Math Six Units at $67.13, Not the $50 Estimate — and a Void Date of December 14
Montera v. Premier Nutrition Corporation, No. 3:16-cv-06980-RS, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Chief Judge Richard Seeborg, final approval May 14, 2026, fund $19,160,186.47 for New York purchasers; and Bland v. Premier Nutrition Corporation, No. RG19002714, together with the related Sonner case, No. RG20072126, Alameda County Superior Court, Judge Michael Markman, final approval May 26, 2026, fund $70,839,813.53 for purchasers in California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and Pennsylvania — $90 million together over Joint Juice glucosamine drinks. Claims closed May 18, 2026; nothing can be filed now. According to OpenClassActions, claimants began reporting payments on September 16, 2026, sent by email as printable checks — the “Electronic Check” option on the claim form; everyone who did not choose it gets a paper check. The same site reports New York payments of $402.78 and multi-state payments of about $82 to $206, and a New York payment letter it reviewed gives a void date of December 14, 2026, which is 90 days after September 15 — the cashing window both settlement agreements set. The official site, JointJuiceSettlement.com, run by JND Legal Administration (1-888-921-0720), has posted no payment notice; its FAQ still says payment waits until appeals are resolved. The court-approved estimates were $50 per unit in New York and $10 or $25 per unit elsewhere, adjusted pro rata; by our arithmetic, $402.78 is six units — the no-receipt maximum — at $67.13 each. We cannot verify any individual payment.
Most Wheat Thins Claimants Got $6.07 in January. Since September 11 They Report a Second Payment of About $49 — Eight Times the First — With Only 111,388 of 1,361,505 Claims Valid (Kroll Rejected 863,825 as Fraud) and Awards Capped at $20, About $4.8 Million Was Left After Round One, by Our Arithmetic. There Is No New Claim Form.
Wallenstein, et al. v. Mondelez Int’l., Inc., et al., Case No. 3:22-cv-06033-VC, United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Judge Vince Chhabria. The judge granted final approval of the $10 million settlement over the “100% WHOLE GRAIN” label on Wheat Thins on December 12, 2025 and entered final judgment the same day. The claim deadline was July 7, 2025 — 445 days ago — and nobody can file now. First payments went out in January 2026: the court-filed accounting puts the minimum and the median at $6.07 and the maximum at $21.57. Since September 11, 2026, claimants report a second payment of about $49 — one posted $49.39, another $109.62 after a $13.47 first payment. That matches the supplemental distribution the settlement agreement provides for leftover money, paid only to “Class Members who cashed the initial payment, on a pro rata basis”. Neither the administrator nor the court has published the amount; the official site, WheatThinsClassSettlement.com, run by Kroll Settlement Administration, posts the final judgment and the accounting but no payment notice. Of 1,361,505 claims filed, Kroll preliminarily counted 111,388 as valid and rejected 863,825 as fraudulent. What remains after this round goes in equal shares to the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law and to Feeding America. Kroll’s line is (833) 421-4690.
Amazon's Prime Refund Cap Just Went From $51 to $200. Only 4.45 Million of the First 12.5 Million Payments Were Accepted, Anything Unaccepted Was Voided on September 15 — and the Extra $149 Goes Only to People Who Take What They Are Sent. Automatic Payments to 11-to-20-Benefit Users Start October 1
On Monday, September 14, 2026, U.S. District Judge John H. Chun signed a stipulated order in FTC v. Amazon.com, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00932-JHC (W.D. Wash.), rewriting how the last of the $1.5 billion Prime redress fund gets paid. The FTC announced it on September 17. Three things are new. Consumers who used 11 to 20 Prime benefits in a year — previously outside every payment round — will be paid automatically starting October 1, 2026. The per-person cap rises from $51 to $200, through a pro-rata top-up of up to $149 that begins by the end of April 2027 if less than $1 billion has been accepted by then. And every payment issued before June 25, 2026 that nobody accepted was voided on September 15 and, in the order's words, “need not be reissued.” There is no claim form for any of it; the filing window closed July 27. What the press release does not say, and the order does, is how much of the money offered so far has actually been taken. Below is the order, the numbers, and the one thing you still have to do.
Credit Acceptance Will Erase $634 Million in Car Loans for More Than 55,000 Borrowers and Pay $60 Million in Cash — No Claim Form, Letters by February 1, 2027. The Cut-Off Is a Score the Company Kept to Itself: Under 56, With a Car Payment Eating 13% or More of Income. Ten States, Including Texas, Are Not in the Deal
On September 17, 2026, forty-one attorneys general announced a settlement with Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC), the Southfield, Michigan subprime auto lender, worth $694 million in cash and debt relief: $388 million in balances wiped for borrowers whose cars were repossessed, $246 million wiped for borrowers who still have the car — they keep it, lien released, title sent — and a $60 million cash fund, plus $15.5 million to the states. New York's attorney general, who kept the case alive after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau dropped it in April 2025, puts the debt relief at “more than 55,000 consumers nationwide.” Nobody files anything. The consent judgment sets an Effective Date of November 2, 2026, the relief must be carried out within 90 days of that, and the company says affected customers will hear from it “no later than February 1, 2027.” The eligibility test is not your credit score; it is CAC's own internal “Credit Acceptance Score” below 56 combined with a payment-to-income ratio of 13 percent or more, on a loan made between November 1, 2015 and November 30, 2025 that was still open on December 1, 2025. We read the 22-page consent judgment, the company's SEC filing and customer page, four attorneys general's releases, and pulled the 14,330 complaints about the company in our copy of the CFPB's complaint database. Here is who gets what, when, and what the borrowers themselves had been saying.
Abbott Will Pay $385 Million Over the Sturgis Formula Plant. Three Former Employees Get $69 Million of It. Parents Get Nothing From This One — the Money Goes to the Treasury and to State WIC and Medicaid Programs, and the NEC Lawsuits That Actually Pay Families Are a Different Case Entirely
On Monday, September 14, 2026, the Justice Department announced that Abbott Laboratories “has agreed to pay $384,999,040 to resolve allegations that it caused false claims to be submitted between Jan. 1, 2018, and Dec. 31, 2022, to federal and state programs arising from its failure to manufacture certain powder infant formula and nutritional therapy products at its Sturgis, Michigan, and Casa Grande, Arizona, facilities in compliance with federal and state statutory, regulatory, and contractual requirements.” Of that, $348,700,868 goes to the United States and $36,298,172 to states for their Medicaid and WIC programs. Three former Abbott employees who filed the whistleblower suit in 2022 — Scott Millard, Kristine Cooper and Loren Cooper — “will receive $69 million as their share of the federal settlement.” Because this is a False Claims Act case, there is no fund for families, no class and no claim form: the party the settlement makes whole is the government that paid for the formula. The department is explicit that “there has been no determination of liability,” and Abbott says no distributed formula ever tested positive for the bacterium at the centre of the 2022 recall. Below: what the government alleged, where the money goes, how the whistleblower share was arrived at, how $385 million compares with a record year of False Claims Act recoveries, and the separate litigation that families with injured infants are actually in.
TransUnion Will Pay $100 Automatically to About 21,000 People It Reported as Bankrupt Who Never Were — and Roughly $1,000 More to Those Who Swear It Cost Them. Claims Close October 30.
Brooks v. Trans Union, LLC, Civil Action No. 2:22-cv-00048-KSM, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge Karen Spencer Marston. On July 6, 2026 the court preliminarily approved an $8,310,000 settlement for roughly 57,000 people whose TransUnion credit report, sold to a lender between January 6, 2020 and January 31, 2023, carried a bankruptcy “remark” on an account even though the report's public-record section showed no bankruptcy — and, for the whole class, no court in the country held a bankruptcy filing under their Social Security number in the ten years before the report. The court-authorized site is BrooksBankruptcyClassAction.com, run by Continental DataLogix. The class is split in two. About 21,000 people with no bankruptcy on record at all get $100 automatically and can claim what the papers estimate at “approximately $1,000” more; about 36,000 whose only bankruptcy was more than ten years old get nothing unless they file, and then an estimated “approximately $350.” The claim form has a catch the summaries skip: you must certify under penalty of perjury that your TransUnion score dropped or that you were denied credit because of the remark. Claims, opt-outs and objections all close October 30, 2026; the final approval hearing is December 2, 2026 in Philadelphia.
The $152.2 Million Tuna Settlement Started Paying on September 8 — Twenty Months After Claims Closed — and Some Checks Can't Be Cashed Because of a Bank Processing Problem. Replacement Checks Come With an Extra $20.
In re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litigation, Case No. 3:15-md-02670-DMS-MSB, United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Judge Dana M. Sabraw. The End Payer settlements with StarKist ($130 million), the Lion Companies that owned Bumble Bee ($6 million) and Chicken of the Sea ($16.2 million) — $152.2 million for people who bought canned or pouched tuna in 30 states, the District of Columbia or Guam between June 1, 2011 and July 1, 2015 — began paying out on September 8, 2026, after Judge Sabraw's disbursement order of July 27, 2026. The official site, TunaEndPurchaserSettlement.com, run by JND Legal Administration, now carries an “Important Update”: “some class members are unable to cash their checks due to a bank processing issue,” replacement checks are being issued with $20 added for bank fees, and nobody should try to re-deposit the original. There is no claim form — claims closed December 31, 2024 — and the net fund was $97,539,130.47 as of June 1, 2026, before a $925,000 distribution reserve. The notice estimated about 12 cents a can; social-media reports of a few hundred to a few thousand dollars are consistent with that only for very large claims, and we cannot verify them.
West Virginia Will Pay $9.1 Million to Women Exposed to a Hidden Camera at Its State Police Academy. Nobody Could Opt Out, Nobody Objected — and Some Former Junior Troopers Have 45 More Days to File.
On Wednesday, September 16, 2026, Kanawha County Circuit Judge Kenneth Ballard gave final approval to a $9.1 million class settlement for women and girls who used the locker room or bathroom at the West Virginia State Police Academy in Institute between January 1, 2015 and March 20, 2023 and were exposed to a hidden camera. The State Police were ordered to wire the money to a qualified settlement fund; a claims administrator will divide it according to each woman's “level of potential temporal exposure” to the recording devices — presumably how long, and how often, she was there. The class is mandatory: the court made it so at the state's insistence, which means no one could opt out, and no class member objected. More than 40 individual “Jane Doe” lawsuits were settled at the same hearing. The one open door: the judge gave some former junior troopers — girls who attended the academy's residential Junior Trooper program as minors — 45 more days to submit claims, which by our count runs to about October 31, 2026. The claim administrators are Cary Claim Solutions and Walters Administration; we found no public settlement website as of September 18.
The CVS Settlement Email Matches the Court-Ordered Notice: Up to $10 for Having Used CVS.com or the App, One Claim Per Household — and the $20.5 Million “Maximum” Includes Up to 37.5% for the Lawyers. Claims Close November 16.
Brewer, et al. v. CVS Pharmacy, Inc. and Criteo Corp., Case No. CACE-26-008094, Circuit Court of the 17th Judicial Circuit, Broward County, Florida, before Judge Shari A. Olefson. The class is enormous and the qualifying act is trivial: “all living individuals who accessed the CVS Digital Properties in the United States” — cvs.com, cvshealth.com or the CVS app — before July 27, 2026. The settlement papers describe data about those visits reaching the ad-tech firm Criteo “or other technology providers or third parties through technology embedded” on the sites. The payment is $5 with no documentation, $10 with proof that you used the sites, both marked “up to.” The court-authorized site is CVSDigitalPrivacySettlement.com, run by Simpluris. What the headlines call a $20.5 million settlement is, in the agreement's own words, a “Maximum Cash Payment” that already contains the fees, the administration costs and the service awards — and any residue “shall revert to Defendants.” Claims close November 16, 2026; opt-out and objection close November 1.
Palomar Health Medical Group's $3.1 Million Breach Settlement Covers 1,132,116 People — $2.74 Each — and Its $60 Estimate Only Holds If About 97% of Them Never File. Claims Close October 22.
Castro et al. v. Arch Health Partners, Inc. d/b/a Palomar Health Medical Group, Case No. 37-2024-00024339-CU-NP-CTL, Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, Department C-64, Judge Loren Freestone. Arch Health Partners — the Poway physician group that operates as Palomar Health Medical Group — will pay $3,100,000 into a non-reversionary fund to settle claims over a ransomware intrusion between April 23 and May 5, 2024. The court-authorized site is PHMGDataSettlement.com, administered by Angeion Group. Every class member can take two years of one-bureau credit monitoring, plus one of two cash options: documented losses up to $5,000, or a no-proof payment the notice puts at “an estimated $60.00.” The number the settlement papers state and the aggregators skip is the class size: the defendant has confirmed approximately 1,132,116 people, which the plaintiffs' own motion converts to $2.74 per Settlement Class Member. Claims close October 22, 2026; opt-out and objection close October 7.
Maui Wildfire Settlement Payout Date: $1.1 Billion Is Sitting in Trust for 21,750 Claimants, and Not a Dollar Moves Until the Hawaii Supreme Court Rules on a $222 Million Fee Fight It Heard on September 15
The question people type is “maui wildfire settlement payout date.” The honest answer on September 17, 2026 is that there is none — and the reason is not the defendants. Hawaiian Electric authorized its first $479 million installment on April 10; roughly $1.1 billion of the $4.037 billion global settlement is in trust for the first distribution. What stopped the money is an appeal by three law firms and one survivor against Judge Peter Cahill's June order capping attorney fees at 3 to 10 percent and carving out a $222 million common-benefit fund. The Hawaii Supreme Court heard oral argument on September 15. Liaison counsel's stated expectation — not a court date — is a ruling this month and first payments by October. There is no claim form here: the money flows through the lawyers who filed the 94,816 claims, and the fee order decides how much of it reaches the people who lost Lahaina.
The Company That Delivers Your Court Papers Was Breached. Its $2.5 Million Settlement Estimates the No-Proof Payment at $50 — and Then Caps It at $450, Nine Times Higher. Claims Close September 28.
In re ABC Legal Services Data Security Litigation, Case No. 2:24-cv-02092, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, before Judge Jamal N. Whitehead. ABC Legal Services — the Seattle process-serving company that files and serves court documents on behalf of law firms and creditors — will pay $2,500,000 to settle claims over a data incident that began on August 7, 2024. The court-authorised site is ABCDataSettlement.com, administered by Eisner Advisory Group LLC. Every class member can take two years of one-bureau credit monitoring from IDX, plus one of two cash options: documented out-of-pocket losses up to $5,000, or a no-proof pro rata payment the settlement estimates at $50 — “and may be increased or decreased based on the number of Approved Claims, up to $450.” That ceiling is what makes this settlement worth a second look, because on the class size reported for this breach it is not a decorative number. Claims close September 28, 2026. The opt-out and objection deadlines closed on August 28, so the only decision still in front of you is whether to file.
Accenture Just Paid $25 Million Over How It Hired and Promoted. That Is Three Consulting Firms and $63.5 Million in Five Months — and in Our Database of 2,387 EEOC Settlements Going Back to 1990, Only Eight Were Ever That Large. None of This Money Reaches an Employee.
On September 14, 2026 the Justice Department announced that Accenture Federal Services, Accenture plc and Accenture LLP had agreed to pay the United States $25,000,000 to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations — in the department's words, “for failing to comply with anti-discrimination requirements in federal contracts and discriminating against employees and applicants for employment because of race or sex.” The department is equally clear about the case's standing: “The claims resolved by the United States in the settlement are allegations only and there has been no determination of liability.” Accenture is the third settlement under the Civil Rights Fraud Initiative, after IBM ($17 million, April 10, 2026) and Deloitte ($21.5 million, August 2026), bringing the running total to $63.5 million. Readers arrive at stories like this one looking for a claim form, so the answer goes at the top: there is none. A False Claims Act settlement is money paid to the United States, not into a fund for workers. Below is what the government says happened, where the money actually goes, and how $25 million compares with 36 years of discrimination settlements in our own database.
The Comcast Claim Window Shut Last Night — but the $117.5 Million Was Already Approved Three Weeks Ago, and the Only Thing Still Standing Between 35.9 Million People and Their $50 Is an Appeal Clock That Runs Out Around September 19
Hasson v. Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, No. 2:23-cv-05039-JMY, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Judge John Milton Younge. The administrator's own banner now reads, in this order: “The Final Approval Hearing was held on August 5, 2026. The Court approved the Settlement on August 20, 2026” — and then, underneath, “The deadline to submit a Claim Form is September 14, 2026.” As of this morning both sentences are in the past. Approval came first, the filing window closed second, and that ordering is the whole story: eligibility is settled, nobody new can join, and what remains is a calendar. Under the standard federal rule an appeal from the August 20 judgment must be noticed within 30 days, which lands on or about September 19, 2026. Until that date passes with nothing filed — or any appeal is resolved — the settlement has no Effective Date, and with no Effective Date there is no money.
Amazon Is Emailing People About a Dr. Squatch Settlement and the Class Definition Never Mentions Amazon — Which Is Exactly Why Your Order History Is Worth Four Times More Than Your Memory: $2.50 Without It, $12.50 With It, by November 27
Victor Guzman, Perry Bruno, Lauren Fleming, David Plowden, Karen Betzag, and Jaime Napolitano v. Dr. Squatch, LLC, Case No. 25STCV03523, Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, Department 11. Dr. Squatch will pay $9,000,000 to end claims that products labelled “natural” contained ingredients the plaintiffs say are synthetic; the company denies it and maintains the labelling was proper. The court-authorized notice defines the class as “all Persons who purchased Covered Products in the United States between November 1, 2018 through August 29, 2026” — no retailer named, no channel excluded. So the question filling search boxes right now, does my Amazon purchase count, has a boring answer: yes, the same as a purchase anywhere else. The interesting part is what Amazon gives you afterwards. The claim form defines Proof of Purchase as a receipt “from a third-party retail source (including physical and on-line retail sources)” — and proof lifts your ceiling from five units to twenty-five.
Thousands of People a Week Are Searching for a Levoit Air Purifier Recall That Does Not Exist — the Federal Recall Database Returns Zero for Levoit and for Vesync, and the Real Case Is a $15 Million Argument About the Word 'HEPA' That Pays $10
Sen v. Vesync (US) Corp., Case No. 510627/2026, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County. Search traffic for “levoit air purifier recall” and “levoit core recall” has climbed sharply this month, and the premise is wrong. We queried the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's recall database on September 15, 2026 across recall title, description, product name and manufacturer: zero results for Levoit, zero for Vesync. The same queries return six recalls for “air purifier” generally and one for Aroeve, so the database answers — it simply has nothing on these products. What does exist is a settlement, and it is not about safety at all: it is about whether “True HEPA,” “HEPA” and “H13” belonged on the box. It pays $10, and its class window closed on August 4, 2023 — so the purifier you bought last year is not in it.
New York City Will Pay $28 Million to People Strip-Searched a Second Time at 100 Centre Street After Already Being Searched Leaving Rikers — the Money Splits by Number of Searches, the City's Own Transport Records Set Your Count, and Claims Close November 26
Lewis, et al. v. City of New York, et al., No. 23 Civ. 2600 (CM), U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge Colleen McMahon. The complaint describes a routine: a detainee leaving Rikers Island for a Manhattan court date is pat-frisked, has his clothing searched, passes a metal detector or body scanner and the BOSS chair, and — at an officer's discretion — is told to pull his pants down, squat and cough; he is then handcuffed to another detainee, locked in a caged bus, and on arrival at the Baxter Street entrance of 100 Centre Street is walked to the third floor and told to do it again, because it is “procedure.” Raymond Lewis says that happened to him eight times between November 24, 2022 and March 7, 2023. The City denies liability. The settlement, preliminarily approved June 29, 2026, puts a $28,000,000 Distribution Amount in front of a class defined by two periods — March 28, 2020 to February 29, 2024 for people the Department of Correction classified as Enhanced Security, October 1, 2022 to February 29, 2024 for everyone else — and splits it pro rata by the number of qualifying searches each claimant had. Attorneys' fees, two $37,500 service awards and up to $500,000 in administration are paid by the City on top, not out of it. There is no per-person figure yet, and there cannot be one until the claims are counted. Claims, opt-outs and objections: November 26, 2026. Final approval hearing: January 29, 2027, 10:00 a.m., Courtroom 24A, 500 Pearl Street.
Concora Credit Robocalled 147,083 Cell Phones That Did Not Belong to Its Cardholders — Now It Pays $250 to $650 a Person, but the Claim Form Only Comes With the Postcard, and Claims Close October 19
Seals v. Concora Credit Inc., No. 3:25-cv-00728-AN, U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon, Judge Adrienne Nelson. Alexis Seals of Columbia, Missouri never had an Indigo Mastercard. Between March 25 and June 30, 2023 her cell phone took 22 prerecorded voicemails from (800) 353-5920 — “This is Genesis FS Card Services calling regarding an important business matter about your Indigo account” — the same script, played twice per message. Concora Credit, the Beaverton, Oregon lender formerly named Genesis FS Card Services, denies liability but will pay $9,375,000: an $8,375,000 cash fund plus a $1,000,000 compliance spend over three years. The class is everyone in the United States whose cell number received an artificial or prerecorded voice call from Concora between May 2, 2021 and May 31, 2026 while not being a Concora accountholder's number — 147,083 numbers by the company's own call logs and reassigned-number analysis. Equal shares; class counsel's estimate is $250 to $650 per approved claim. Postcards carrying the claim form were due out September 4. Claims, opt-outs and objections: postmarked October 19, 2026. Final fairness hearing November 24, 2026, 1:00 p.m. in Portland.
A Pennsylvania Lawsuit Filed on July 15, 2009 Is Finally Paying Out: Datavant Refunds 35 Percent of the Medical-Record Copy Fees That About 50,000 Patients, Lawyers and Insurers Paid IOD Between 2005 and 2012 — Up to $9.27 Million, Notice ID Required, and Whatever Goes Unclaimed Returns to Datavant
David M. Landay v. Datavant LLC, successor to IOD Incorporated, No. GD-09-012922, Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Judge Alan D. Hertzberg. The claim is narrow and old. Under the 1998 version of the Pennsylvania Medical Records Act, a company that copied a patient's chart was to charge the estimated actual and reasonable expense of finding and reproducing it, subject to statutory maximums; the suit says IOD Incorporated — the company that fulfilled record-copy requests for Pennsylvania healthcare providers, later Ciox Health, since March 2025 Datavant — charged the maximums as a matter of course. The legislature rewrote the statute effective September 3, 2012 to allow exactly that, which is why the class stops there. Datavant denies wrongdoing and says the payments were voluntary. Seventeen years after the complaint, an order signed June 16, 2026 certified a settlement class of about 50,000 people and entities behind 379,126 record requests, and the settlement returns 35 percent of the basic, search-and-retrieval and per-page fees each of them paid between July 15, 2005 and September 3, 2012, capped at $9,268,095. Attorneys' fees of up to $1,950,000 come from Datavant separately. Three catches: the amount you can claim is already computed from IOD's invoices and printed on the mailed notice; the online Proof of Claim needs the Notice ID and PIN; and the fund is claims-made — what is not claimed goes back to Datavant. Proofs of Claim must be received by November 30, 2026; objections by September 16; exclusions by October 1; final fairness hearing October 16, 2026, 9:00 a.m., Room 816, City-County Building, Pittsburgh.
GEICO Will Pay About $150 to 6,358 People Automatically — No Claim Form — Because It Kept Reporting One Saki Kohama's Accident on Another Saki Kohama's Insurance File
Kohama v. Government Employees Insurance Company, Case No. 8:24-cv-00743-TDC, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge Theodore D. Chuang. The complaint tells the story in its facts section: two women named Saki Kohama, both insured through GEICO companies; one of them had an at-fault accident, and GEICO reported it to LexisNexis — under the other woman's name. Her C.L.U.E. report went to an insurer on March 22, 2023, the quote came back “several hundred dollars a year higher,” and three disputes later GEICO had twice written to her that she “was not the driver” while the record stayed on her file. GEICO denies wrongdoing. The settlement, preliminarily approved July 7, 2026, pays a $1,650,000 fund to a class the court counted at 6,358 people — everyone who disputed a mixed-file C.L.U.E. entry sourced to GEICO through LexisNexis between March 13, 2022 and May 1, 2026 and did not get it corrected. Nothing to file: the administrator, Continental DataLogix, already has the list. Checks go out after final approval; the only choices are to opt out by October 20, 2026, object by October 31, or elect a digital payment by January 14, 2027 — the day of the final approval hearing in Greenbelt.
Summit Medical Group's 464,000-Person Breach Settlement Caps All Cash at $500,000 — $1.08 a Head if Everyone Claimed — While Class Counsel Ask for $575,000
Harris, et al. v. Summit Medical Group, PLLC, Case No. 2-119-25, Circuit Court for Knox County, Tennessee. Summit Medical Group is a Knoxville-based physician group with more than 90 locations across East Tennessee. Per the settlement agreement, it “detected unauthorized access” in November 2024, determined that the private information of “approximately 464,000 current and former patients and employees” may have been taken, and began mailing letters in March 2025. Three lawsuits followed, were consolidated, drew a motion to dismiss, went to a JAMS mediation that failed on the day and settled months later. The court entered preliminary approval on July 28, 2026. The terms: up to $2,500 for documented losses, $45 for three hours of lost time, two years of CyEx medical-identity monitoring — and one clause that governs everything: cash claims “are subject to a $500,000.00 aggregate cap,” reduced pro rata if exceeded. Class counsel's fee request is $575,000, paid by Summit separately. Claims close November 4, 2026 at SummitMedicalDataSettlement.com (Simpluris); opt-out and objections October 20; final approval hearing November 19.
The $167.5 Million Nonbank ATM Claim Form Is Open — No Receipts, Nearly 19 Years of Withdrawals Count, and Nobody Can Say What a Claim Pays Until February 10, 2027 Passes
Burke v. Visa Inc., Case No. 1:11-cv-01882 (D.D.C.), Judge Richard J. Leon. The independent-ATM half of the fifteen-year surcharge litigation has its claims window: preliminary approval came on August 14, 2026 (ECF 198), the administrator A.B. Data was ordered to start notice within 28 days, and NonbankATMSurchargeSettlement.com went live with the court-approved form on schedule. Visa pays $88,775,000 and Mastercard $78,725,000 into a $167.5 million fund. The class: anyone in the United States charged an unreimbursed surcharge to withdraw cash with an ATM or PIN-debit card at an ATM not owned by a bank — the machines in convenience stores, bars, gas stations and hotels — between October 24, 2007 and August 14, 2026. The claim form asks for one number: how many times. “You do not need to provide any documentation at this time.” Each valid claim gets a pro rata share of the net fund by transaction count, which is why the notice says “nobody can know in advance how much the payment will be.” Claims close February 10, 2027; opt-outs must be received and objections postmarked by December 11, 2026; the fairness hearing is February 17, 2027 at 4 p.m. Our tracker, which said on August 22 that the window had not opened, is updated today.
Conduent Has Agreed to Settle the 62-Million-Person Breach Case — the SEC Filing Says So, but It Names No Dollar Amount, Nothing Is Signed or Approved, and There Is Still Nothing to File.
In re: Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, No. 2:25-cv-16953, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, assigned to Judge Michael E. Farbiarz with pretrial matters referred to Magistrate Judge Michael A. Hammer. On September 10, 2026 Conduent Incorporated filed a Form 8-K (Item 8.01) stating that “in August 2026, the Company reached an agreement in principle to settle the consolidated case,” disclosed “in a joint status report filed with the Court on September 10, 2026.” The same filing says “the settlement paperwork is not yet finalized, and the settlement agreement has not yet been approved by the court.” The public docket shows two letters filed that day and, on September 11, a text order staying the case. What the filing does not contain is a number: no fund, no per-person figure, no administrator, no claim form. The breach itself — a network intrusion from October 21, 2024 to January 13, 2025 at a back-office contractor for health insurers and state benefit programs — is one of the largest in U.S. healthcare history: Conduent's June 4, 2026 filing with HHS puts it at 62,224,658 people. Since August 14 our tracker had said there was no settlement and that any site claiming one was a scam. As of September 10 the first half of that sentence is no longer true; the second half still is.
The $7.25 Billion Roundup Settlement Goes Before Judge Boyer on Monday at 9:30 a.m. — No Ruling Is Expected That Day, Registration Does Not Open, and the Opt-Out Deadline Was June 4, Not the August 21 Date Everyone Repeats.
King v. Monsanto Company, Case No. 2622-CC00325, Missouri Circuit Court, Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit (City of St. Louis), Division 8, Judge Timothy Boyer. The fairness hearing on the proposed class settlement — Monsanto “has agreed to pay up to $7.25 billion,” per the official site — was set for August 19, 2026 and moved by the court's August 6 order to September 14, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. CT. Reuters reports Judge Boyer “is not expected to issue an immediate ruling at the hearing.” The official site says registration and claim submission “are not available right now, as the Court has not yet granted final approval”; if it is granted, diagnosed class members get 180 days to register. And one date needs correcting, including on two of our own pages until today: the deadline to opt out or object was June 4, 2026. The August 21 date that circulates was the deadline the August 6 order set for responding to challenges to opt-outs already filed — a fight that produced, in the court's words, “a significant number of challenges,” and that is the real reason the hearing moved.
Highlands Oncology Will Pay Every Valid Claim in Full — $50 With No Proof, Up to $4,250 With Receipts, Three Years of Medical-Identity Monitoring — for a Ransomware Intrusion That Sat Undetected in a Cancer Practice for 132 Days.
In re Highlands Oncology Group Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 72CV-25-3420, Circuit Court for Washington County, Arkansas, Judge William D. Martin. Highlands Oncology is a physician-owned cancer practice with six locations serving Northwest Arkansas, Southwest Missouri and Southeast Oklahoma. Per the settlement agreement, attackers were inside its network from January 21, 2025 until the intrusion was detected on June 2, 2025; the Medusa ransomware group claimed the attack and demanded $700,000, according to HIPAA Journal. What was taken reads like a full medical-identity kit: names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license and passport numbers, card and account numbers, medical record numbers, treatment and insurance information. Thirteen lawsuits filed from August 5, 2025 were consolidated, mediated in January, and settled; the court granted preliminary approval on June 16, 2026 and notices mailed July 16. The structure is the one we like best: there is no settlement fund and no cap — “Highlands Oncology has agreed to pay, or cause to be paid” every valid claim, plus the $400,000 fee request and the administration costs on top. Claims close October 22, 2026 at HighlandsOncologySettlement.com, run by Simpluris; the final approval hearing is November 6 in Fayetteville.
Globe Life's Data Breach Settlement Has No Flat Payment. Without Receipts, the Most You Can Claim Is $72 for Lost Time — and 532,578 People Share a $3.4 Million Ceiling, Not a Fund.
In re American Income Life Ins. Co. and Globe Life Inc. Data Breach Litig., No. 6:25-cv-00262 (W.D. Tex., Waco Division), Judge Leon Schydlower. On July 30, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a settlement with Globe Life Inc. and American Income Life Insurance Company over an incident on or about October 2, 2024, in which — in the notice's own words — “an unknown actor threatened to publish certain personally identifiable customer and lead information maintained by Defendants unless they paid a ransom.” 532,578 people were notified between March and June 2025 that names, addresses, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, health-related information and health-insurance policy information may have been involved. Some headlines put the deal at $4.66 million. The notice puts it differently: up to $3,400,000 for cash payments to the class, plus up to $1,260,000 in attorneys' fees and costs paid separately by the defendants. There is no payment for simply being in the class. Claims close October 19, 2026 at AILDataSettlement.com, run by Kroll — four weeks before the opt-out and objection deadline of November 16.
Costa Del Mar Is Paying $23.9 Million Over Sunglass Repairs Sold on the Box as a “Nominal Fee.” Class Counsel Puts It at About $48 per Repair, Paid Automatically — Unless You Live in Florida, Where a Different Settlement Applies.
Reed v. Costa Del Mar, Inc., Case No. 6:19-cv-1751-RBD-LHP, United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Orlando Division, Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. On July 31, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a $23,900,000 settlement of a claim under Florida's Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act: every box of non-prescription, non-promotional Costa sunglasses promised that parts “damaged by accident, normal wear and tear, or misuse” would be replaced “for a nominal fee,” and the lawsuit says the fee Costa then charged was not nominal. The class is U.S. citizens — Florida residents excluded — who bought those sunglasses before January 1, 2018 and paid Costa more than $11.95 for a repair between April 3, 2015 and January 28, 2026. There is no claim form: each eligible repair earns an automatic pro rata share, which class counsel's fee motion estimates at roughly $48. Exclusions and objections must be received by October 26, 2026; the final approval hearing is December 14, 2026 in Orlando. The administrator is Epiq, at CostaRepairsClassAction.com.
Jack's Family Restaurants Will Pay Every Valid Claim in Full — $55 Without a Receipt, Up to $4,080 With One — Because This Employee Payroll Breach Settlement Has No Fund and No Cap.
In re Jack's Family Restaurants, LP Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 2:25-cv-01861-LCB, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Judge Liles C. Burke. Jack's is a Birmingham-based chain with, per the settlement agreement, “more than 285 locations across six Southern states.” Between July 24 and August 10, 2025, cybercriminals got into the platform where it stored data on current and former employees — names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers, and “bank account information for direct deposit of wages.” Six federal class actions filed in October and November 2025 were consolidated in February 2026; the settlement agreement was filed on July 13, 2026 and notices went out on August 26, 2026. The deal has no dollar figure attached to it, and that is its most important feature: Jack's pays whatever the valid claims add up to. $55 on a form with no documentation, $20 an hour for up to four hours on an attestation, or up to $4,000 in documented losses plus the lost time. Claims close November 30, 2026 at JacksDataBreachSettlement.com, run by Simpluris.
FCA Agreed to Cover Three Valve-Train Parts for Seven Years or 70,000 Miles — the Same Term California Publishes for High-Cost Emissions Parts. Every Vehicle in the Class Is a 2015–2020 Model. Claims Close October 12.
The court-authorised website for Regueiro v. FCA US LLC, No. 2:22-cv-05521 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, carries three deadlines and they all fall on the same day: October 12, 2026 to file a claim, to opt out, or to object. The suit alleges FCA US “did not provide the appropriate warranty coverage for certain valve train system components as ‘high-priced' warranted parts under the California Emissions Warranty (13 CCR §§ 1950, et seq.).” The settlement extends coverage on three of them — Valve Rocker Arm, Valve Stem Oil Seal, Valve Tappet — to “the earlier of seven years from the Class Vehicle's in-service date or 70,000 miles driven,” and only at an authorised FCA US dealership. Seven years and 70,000 miles is also the term the California Air Resources Board publishes for the High-Cost Emissions-Related Parts Warranty on every 1990-and-newer passenger car and light-duty truck. The class runs to eleven vehicle lines in California and ten “Reg. 177” states, and every single one is a model year between 2015 and 2020. A vehicle that went into service in 2015 crossed seven years in 2022. To still be under 70,000 miles in its eleventh year it would have to have averaged 6,364 miles a year. For most of this class the forward-looking half of the settlement has already run out, which leaves the reimbursement claim — and that is the half with a date on it.
Hannaford's Manager Overtime Settlement Is $8,875,000. Notice Went to 1,296 Managers and 456 Signed the Form — and for Those Who Did Not, the Court Says Cashing the Check Is the Consent Form.
On August 27, 2026, Chief U.S. District Judge Lance E. Walker signed the Final Approval Order in Vye v. Hannaford Bros. Co., LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00339-LEW in the District of Maine, two days after a fairness hearing. The order puts a number on the deal that news headlines rounded off: a “Gross Settlement Amount of $8,875,000.” It also puts a number on participation. The court conditionally certified the federal wage-and-hour collective on September 15, 2025, and “Notice was sent to 1,296 individuals, of whom 456 individuals filed Consent to Join forms in the case.” That is 35.2 per cent — and it is why the order contains a paragraph almost nobody writes about. The settlement gives a second door to what it calls “Rule 23-Absent FLSA Collective Members,” and the door is the cheque itself: they join “by accepting their FLSA Fund payment in exchange for opting into the Settlement and releasing their FLSA Claims.” Under federal wage law you normally have to sign something to be in a case. Here, endorsing the payment is the signature. Meanwhile the settlement's own website has stopped answering, and the order certifies Rule 23 classes in three states.
The $53 Million NYC Retiree Copay Settlement Has One Sentence Most Coverage Skipped: Whatever Nobody Claims Goes Back to the City and EmblemHealth. Claims Close October 30.
Bianculli, et al. v. City of New York, et al., Index No. 160234/2022 before Hon. Lyle E. Frank in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York, settles thirteen months of $15 copays in the Emblem-administered medical GHI Senior Care Plan. The headline number is everywhere: $53 million, for “approximately 246,000 Class Members” — Medicare-eligible retired City employees and their Medicare-eligible dependents. The court-authorised notice describes it differently. “Defendants' liability is limited to an amount that shall not exceed $53,000,000” — a ceiling, not a fund — and the amount “does not necessarily represent the amount of co-pays actually paid by Class Members.” Up to about ten million dollars comes off the top before any retiree is paid: $9,900,000 in Class Counsel fees, up to $100,000 in costs, and up to $25,000 in service awards. And near the end of Question 4 sits the sentence that changes what the deadline means: “Any Net Settlement Amount remaining after payment of Approved Claims will be returned to the Defendants.” Every dollar not claimed by October 30, 2026 is a dollar the City of New York and EmblemHealth never pay out.
The $20 Million VSL#3 Settlement Pays $20 a Box. Without a Receipt or a Notice ID, That Is One Box per Household — and the Same Court Barred the Same-Formula Claim Back in 2019.
Starr, et al. v. VSL Pharmaceuticals, Inc., et al., Case No. 8:19-cv-02173-LKG, United States District Court for the District of Maryland, Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby. On July 8, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a $20,000,000 non-reversionary settlement with VSL Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Leadiant Biosciences, Inc. and Alfasigma USA, Inc. for everyone who bought the probiotic VSL#3 in the United States between June 1, 2016 and June 19, 2019. The claim is that the VSL#3 sold in those three years was a different formulation from the one behind the product's clinical studies, and that buyers overpaid for it; the defendants deny it, and the notice says plainly that “It has not been determined in court whether Plaintiffs are correct.” The court-authorised site is VSL3Lawsuit.com, run by Angeion Group. The per-unit figure is $20, a unit being one bottle or box — but how many units you can claim depends on whether you have receipts, a Notice ID from the mailing, or neither. Claims, opt-outs and objections all close October 20, 2026; the fairness hearing is January 6, 2027 in Greenbelt.
Tift Regional Health System's $1.2 Million Breach Settlement Pays $75 Without Proof or Up to $5,000 With It — and the Judge Hears the Case on September 14, the Day Before Objections Are Due.
In re Tift Regional Health System, Inc. Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 2023CV0313, Superior Court for Tift County, Georgia. Tift Regional Health System, Inc. and Southwell, Inc. — the hospital system based in Tifton, in south Georgia — will pay $1,200,000 into a non-reversionary fund to settle claims over “the targeted cyberattack on Tift's computer systems that occurred in August 2022,” in which files that may have held names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and medical information were accessed. The preliminary approval order was e-filed on June 22, 2026, notices went out on July 17, 2026, and the administrator is Simpluris at TiftDataSettlement.com. Every class member can enroll in two years of CyEx Medical Shield Complete and choose one of two cash options: documented losses up to $5,000, or a no-proof pro rata payment the notice estimates at $75. Claims close October 15, 2026. Opt-outs and objections are due September 15 — and the final approval hearing is set for September 14 at 10:00 a.m., one day earlier.
Lennar Was Breached Twice in 2026 and Sued Nine Times in Two Weeks. Texas Alone Counts 61,295 People — and There Is No Settlement, No Claim Form and No Lead Lawyer Yet.
Lennar Corporation, the Miami homebuilder, and its mortgage arm Lennar Mortgage, LLC disclosed two separate “social engineering” intrusions in August 2026: one between March 24 and March 30, 2026, whose review ended July 30, and one between May 26 and June 1, 2026, whose review ended August 4. The Texas Attorney General's breach registry lists 769 Texans for Lennar Corporation and 60,526 for Lennar Mortgage, both entries published August 14, 2026, with data types running from Social Security numbers and government ID numbers to financial account and medical information. Lennar has not published a national total. Between August 14 and August 28, nine class actions naming Lennar Corporation and/or Lennar Mortgage were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Four of them have since been transferred to Chief Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga, who has the first, Ramkissoon v. Lennar Corporation, No. 1:26-cv-25518, and closed as separate dockets; no formal consolidation order has issued. On September 2 she declined, for now, to appoint lead counsel because, as the plaintiffs themselves told the court, “no Defendant has yet appeared in this action.” Lennar's lawyers appeared on September 8. There is no settlement, no class and no claim form; the only thing on offer is two years of Kroll identity monitoring, and the code for it is in the letter.
Transamerica Will Pay $110 Million Over 2,356 Life Insurance Policies. There Is No Claim Form, the Floor Is $100 a Policy — and the Policies It Already Credited $14.6 Million to Get Nothing From the Fund.
Wren, et al. v. Transamerica Life Insurance Company, Case No. 5:21-cv-00178-JGB-SP, United States District Court for the Central District of California, Judge Jesus G. Bernal. On July 30, 2026 the court preliminarily approved a settlement under which Transamerica Life Insurance Company (“TLIC”) pays $110,000,000 — less the proportionate share of any policies that opt out — into a fund that cannot revert to the company, for the owners of 2,356 “Direct Recognition Life” group universal life policies — product names DRL-10 and DRL-11 — that were in force on January 1, 2016. The case is about “Cash Value Increases,” bonuses the policies promised at their 30th and 40th anniversaries and that Transamerica told policyholders in 2016 it would not credit. Nobody files anything: “You will automatically receive a settlement check in the mail from JND Legal Administration as the Settlement Administrator if you are entitled to one.” The deadline to opt out or object is October 2, 2026; the fairness hearing is November 9, 2026. And the plan of allocation contains the rule that decides who gets the money: policies that Transamerica already credited under its 2025–2026 “Bonus Crediting Project” — $14.6 million so far — have an unpaid amount of zero and are the one group carved out of the $100 minimum.
The Schnucks Settlement Email Is Real. It Pays $7 Flat to Up to 900,000 Missouri Rewards Members, the Complaint's Own Example Was a Tax Overcharge of Under 30 Cents — and Claims Close November 3.
Garcia v. Schnuck Market, Inc. (the caption as the notice styles it; the company is Schnuck Markets, Inc.), Case No. 25SL-CC04761, Circuit Court of St. Louis County, Missouri, Division 2, Judge Richard M. Stewart. The court-approved notice describes a class action “about whether Schnucks, in its Missouri stores, charged customers sales tax on the full pre-discount price of purchases where Rewards Points were redeemed, rather than on the lower, discounted price.” The class is every Schnucks Rewards Member who redeemed points on tax-eligible items at a Missouri Schnucks store, in person or online, between May 2, 2020 and August 7, 2026 — “approximately 900,000 class members,” according to the notice. Each one who files a valid claim by November 3, 2026 gets $7.00; the notice asks for no receipt. The email and postcards come from the administrator, Rust Consulting, and the website is SchnucksTaxSettlement.com. Schnucks denies liability, says it sent every dollar of the disputed tax to the Missouri Department of Revenue, and has agreed to change its registers by March 31, 2027. The final approval hearing is December 4, 2026.
Community Dental Care Told Regulators 134,903 People Were Hit. Its Settlement Pays $50 to Anyone Who Asks, Up to $5,000 With Receipts, Has No Fund to Run Out — and Claims Close October 19.
In re Community Dental Care, Case No. 62-CV-25-2490, District Court for Ramsey County, Minnesota, Judge Reynaldo A. Aligada, Jr. Community Dental Care (“CD”), a Maplewood-based nonprofit and Minnesota's largest nonprofit dental practice, found “unauthorized activity in its computer system” on December 20, 2024; its investigation concluded that data had been accessed or acquired on or about December 6. The settlement covers “All individuals whose Personal Information was accessed without authorization in the Data Breach, including all those who received a notice of the Data Breach.” Every class member can claim a flat $50.00 with “no proof or explanation,” or up to $5,000.00 for documented out-of-pocket losses, and every class member gets two years of medical and credit monitoring with the enrollment code printed on the postcard. There is no settlement fund and no pro rata cut: CD pays each valid claim, plus up to $400,000 in fees and up to $22,500 in service awards on top, if the court approves them. Claims close October 19, 2026; opt-outs and objections closed on September 24; the hearing is November 23, 2026.
The Disney Streaming Settlement Closed September 8. If You Spent the Whole Class Period in Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio or Georgia, Your Payment Comes Out of a 10% Slice of the Fund.
Biddle, et al. v. The Walt Disney Company, Case No. 5:22-cv-07317-EJD, United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Disney will pay $50,000,000 to settle antitrust claims brought on behalf of YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers — including the older DirecTV Now and AT&T TV Now brands — who paid for a subscription at any time between April 1, 2019 and March 31, 2026. Claims and opt-outs both closed September 8, 2026, one day after this article first ran; the reminder notice that went round that week is why so many people were searching the case name. Updated September 9, 2026: the window has closed, and the next step is the fairness hearing on January 14, 2027. Payments are pro rata by how long you subscribed. But the long form notice carries an allocation rule that the reminder and the roundups leave out: 90% of the net fund is set aside for subscribers who lived in one of 39 “Repealer Jurisdictions” at any time during the class period, and 10% for everyone else — a group of fourteen states that includes Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio and Georgia, five of the ten most populous in the country.
The Anthropic Settlement Was Reported as $3,000 a Book. The First Payment Is $2,203.56 Per Work, Due by November 15 — and the Form That Went Out This Week Starts a 30-Day Clock on Who Gets What Share.
Bartz, et al. v. Anthropic PBC, Case No. 4:24-cv-05417-AMO, United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín granted final approval of the $1,500,000,000 settlement on July 20, 2026. On September 2, class counsel filed a status report that answers the question every claimant has been asking: “Class Members should expect distributions to start by early November, and no later than November 15, 2026.” It also explains why the number on that first payment is smaller than the one in the headlines. “After deduction of fees, services awards, and expenses, each Work is allotted approximately $2,203.56 of funds currently in the Settlement Fund, which does not yet include Anthropic's final payment of $450 million plus interest.” The same filing says the consolidated forms the administrator intended to send to all claimants by September 4 come with a rule: “Claimants will have 30 days to contest the allocations.” Works where every rightsholder agrees are paid first; works in dispute go through administrator-facilitated talks and, failing agreement, the court-appointed Special Master.
The Levoit Air Purifier Settlement Pays $10 — If You Can Show a Receipt From as Far Back as 2019. The Notice Says Every U.S. Buyer Is In. The Signed Agreement Underneath It Cuts Out Anyone Who Bought From Vesync's Own Site.
Sen et al. v. Vesync (US) Corp., Index No. 510627/2026, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kings County, before Judge Katherine Levine. Vesync, the company behind the Levoit brand, has agreed to pay a $10.00 digital payment to everyone who bought a Levoit Core or EverestAir air purifier or replacement filter labelled “True HEPA,” “HEPA” or “H13” in the United States between August 29, 2019 and August 4, 2023 and can prove it. Payments are capped at $15,000,000 in total and shrink pro rata if valid claims exceed that. Attorneys' fees and costs of up to $5,244,500 and service awards of $11,500 are paid by Vesync on top, not out of the $15 million. Claims, opt-outs and objections all close on November 3, 2026. And one sentence in the settlement agreement (Vesync's signature is dated April 22, 2026) — absent from the class notice — narrows the class: excluded are “persons who purchased the above-referenced products directly from Defendant's website or mobile application and are accordingly bound by an arbitration agreement and class-action waiver.”
Every Write-Up Puts the Americold Payout at $200. The Court's Own Notice Calls It an Estimate — After the Fee Request the Fund Holds About 15,000 of Them Before Other Costs, and 16,007 Claims Were In by September 21.
Lamont Bracy, et al. v. Americold Logistics, LLC, Case No. 1:23-cv-05743-TWT, United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division. Americold will pay $5,250,000 to resolve claims over two separate cybersecurity incidents — one on or about November 16, 2020, one on or about April 26, 2023. The settlement website, run by Kroll, describes the cash payment in careful language that the roundups drop: a Residual Cash Payment “which is estimated to be $200” for people notified of both incidents, or $100 for one. Residual means what it says — it is the balance left after attorneys' fees, service awards, administration costs and the cost of the credit monitoring come out of the fund first. The notice said Class Counsel would ask for up to 35% ($1,837,500); the motion filed on September 1 asks for $1,750,000, one-third of the fund, plus $477,842.98 in costs, and Kroll reports 16,007 claims received by September 21. The deadline that arrived first was not the claim deadline: objections and opt-outs closed on September 22, 2026; claims stay open until October 22, 2026.
New York Will Pay $475 for Every Trip Through Central Booking, and the $2.95 Million in Legal Fees Won't Come Out of It. One Sentence on the Last Page of the Claim Form Still Can.
Capobianco et al. v. The City of New York, Brennan et al. v. The City of New York and Aboubakar et al. v. The City of New York — Case Nos. 1:21-cv-06125, 1:19-cv-2054 and 1:20-cv-01716 in the Eastern District of New York. The City has agreed to pay up to $21,500,000 over conditions of confinement in its Central Booking facilities, and class members receive up to $475 for every time they were held there during the class period, with no cap on the number of visits. Two things in the long form notice appear in none of the coverage. Class counsel will ask for up to $2,950,000 in fees and costs, and the notice states plainly: “This money will not come out of the fund for the class.” But the claim form ends with a sentence that can: unpaid child support judgments become a lien the City will assert against your payment. Opt-outs and objections close October 5, 2026; claims close October 19, 2026.
The Bestway Pool Settlement Pays $40 With No Receipt and 10% With One. The CPSC Priced These Pools From About $400 — Which Is Exactly Where the Receipt Stops Being Worth Digging Out.
In re Bestway Above-Ground Pools Litigation, No. 1:25-cv-09570, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Bestway will pay $15,000,000 over a compression strap that the Consumer Product Safety Commission says can act as a foothold for a small child. The recall behind it, announced July 21, 2025, covered about five million pools across three manufacturers and followed the drowning deaths of nine children aged 22 months to three years. The settlement covers only the Bestway-branded ones. Two payment tracks are on offer — 10% of the price with a valid proof of purchase, or a flat $40.00 without one — and because the CPSC priced these pools at “approximately $400 to over $1,000,” the receipt only beats the flat payment above $400. Second-hand buyers are excluded outright. Claims close October 30, 2026.
“Sling TV Settlement Claim Form” Is One of the Fastest-Climbing Searches on Our Monitor This Week. There Is No Claim Form. The $530,000 Went to the State of California, the $2,500 Everyone Is Quoting Is a Number Out of a Statute Rather Than a Payout — and the Case It Came From Was Voluntarily Dismissed on December 3, 2024. Meanwhile the Court Docket Lists Four Sling Entities as Chapter 11 Debtors.
Our page-candidate monitor put “sling tv settlement” and “sling tv settlement claim form online” at the top of its demand list on September 3, 2026. We went looking for the claim form. There is not one, and there are three separate things being blended together in the search results: a $530,000 California Attorney General enforcement settlement announced October 30, 2025, in which the money is a civil penalty paid to the state and consumers receive nothing; a Video Privacy Protection Act class action, Arias v. Sling TV LLC, No. 1:24-cv-05493 (S.D.N.Y.), whose docket shows a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal on December 3, 2024; and the $2,500 figure that content sites attach to it, which is the liquidated-damages amount written into the VPPA itself, not a sum any court has ordered Sling to pay anyone. On top of that, four Sling entities appear on the Chapter 11 docket in Houston as jointly administered debtors — something most of the trade coverage said had not happened. Here is the record.
DaVita’s $15 Million Ransomware Settlement Is Being Written Up as “About $50 a Person.” Judge Rodriguez’s Own Order Does the Other Arithmetic in a Single Sentence: $4.17, If Everyone Files. The Class Went From 1.2 Million People in the Complaint to 2.3 Million in the Deal — and the Claim Deadline Nobody Has Published Is Sitting in the Order as a Countdown.
On August 21, 2026, Judge Regina M. Rodriguez granted preliminary approval to a $15,000,000 settlement of the litigation over the April 2025 Interlock ransomware attack on DaVita (Jenkins v. DaVita, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-01358-RMR-SBP, D. Colo.). Every write-up we found repeats the same three numbers — $2,500 for documented losses, an estimated $50 cash payment, three years of credit monitoring — and then says the claim deadline has not been announced. It has. The order sets the entire schedule as intervals running from the date it was entered, which means the dates are computable today: objections and exclusions at 90 days, claims at 120 days, the fairness hearing no earlier than 180. We read the 23-page order and did the arithmetic, including the sentence where the court states what the fund pays if every class member actually claims.
The Complaint Lists Lead, Cadmium and PFAS. The Settlement Pays $6 a Pan, Two Pans a Household, $12 and Done. Claims Closed September 25 — No Receipt, No Notice ID, and Only If You Bought Gotham Steel, Granite Stone or Bell & Howell in California or Colorado.
There is no fund to run out of in this one, which is unusual enough to be worth explaining. Fouse and Miller v. E. Mishan & Sons, Inc., Case No. CVRI2505343 in the Superior Court of California for Riverside County, settles allegations that Gotham Steel, Granite Stone and Bell & Howell cookware was marketed as “Healthy, Non-Toxic Ceramic Cookware” despite the undisclosed presence of chromium, iron, nickel, lead, cadmium, PFOA, PFAS, PTFE or PFOS. The remedy is $6.00 per product, capped at two products per household. The claim window closed September 25, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific; the administrator asked for no receipt and no Notice ID up front. Update, September 26, 2026: claims and opt-outs are closed; the final approval hearing is November 2, 2026. Two limits decided who could claim: the geography and the household cap.
A Class Action Says the Graco Slim Spaces Swing Speeds Up on Its Own. We Checked the Recall Database Anyway: There Is No Recall for This Swing, There Is No Claim Form, and Graco Has Not Yet Filed a Single Word in Response. Its Deadline Is October 1, 2026.
Haney v. Graco Children's Products, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-04471-TRJ, was filed in the Northern District of Georgia on August 7, 2026 — not September 3, which is the date the trade coverage carries and which is really just the day the story was written up. The complaint alleges that the Graco Slim Spaces Compact Baby Swing accelerates on its own to high speeds, that the speed controls stop responding when it does, and that in some cases the only way to stop it is to pull the batteries out. Parents searching for this are almost always asking one question: has it been recalled? We queried the Consumer Product Safety Commission's own recall service directly. The answer is no — and we ran two control queries to make sure the answer was real and not a broken search. Here is the entire record, including the three model numbers named in the complaint and the one date that actually matters next.
Almost Every Story About the Publix Blueberry Outbreak Still Says Twelve People Got Sick and Publix Faces No Legal Action. Both Statements Were Out of Date When They Were Written. The CDC Now Counts Seventeen, the Investigation Is Still Open, a Florida Couple Sued on July 13 — and on September 2 the Recall Jumped to Walmart's Great Value Berries.
This outbreak began as a single Chilean supplier's recall of one lot of Publix GreenWise organic blueberries on July 3, 2026. Two months later it has grown three times over. Publix pulled all lots of four GreenWise products on July 29 in a Class I recall — the FDA's highest risk tier. The CDC's case count went from twelve to seventeen, with six hospitalisations, and the agency's investigation status still reads Open as of September 3. And on September 2 the same supplier expanded the recall to Walmart's Great Value Organic Triple Berry Blend across sixteen states. There is no class action here and no claim form — this is a product-liability situation, not a settlement — but there is already one filed lawsuit, and in Florida the clock on the negligence claim is two years, not four. Here is the record, with the numbers taken from the agencies rather than from the coverage.
The Saks Text-Message Lawsuit Is Real, but Almost Everything Being Written About It Is Off. It Was Filed in the Central District of California — There Is No Western District of California. The Defendant Is Saks.com LLC and Nobody Else. There Is No Claim Form. And a Delaware Judge Threw Out the Same Theory in April.
Benjamin Rushin v. Saks.com LLC, No. 2:26-cv-08743, was filed on August 7, 2026 and alleges that Saks sent marketing text messages before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m., and to numbers sitting on the National Do Not Call Registry. The syndicated write-up that sent this case around the internet places it in “the U.S. District Court for the Western District of California.” No such court exists — California has four districts and this one is Central. That is the smallest of the corrections. There is no settlement, no administrator and nothing to file, the company being sued is not the one most people think, and the legal theory behind the case is under serious attack in other courts right now. If you are here because a text woke you up, this page explains what you can and cannot do about it.
Butterball and Hormel Just Put $71.5 Million on the Table to End the Turkey Price-Fixing Case, and the Trial Set for October Is Off. Before You Look for a Claim Form: If You Bought Your Turkey at a Grocery Store, You Are Not in This Class and You Will Not Get a Cent.
Judge Sunil R. Harjani granted preliminary approval on August 26, 2026 to two settlements in In re Turkey Antitrust Litigation, No. 1:19-cv-08318 (N.D. Ill.): $34 million from Butterball, LLC and $37.5 million from Hormel Foods and Jennie-O Turkey Store. That brings the total recovered for this class to $130,695,000 and vacated the jury trial that was scheduled for October 8. It is a genuinely large antitrust result. It is also, for almost everyone reading about it, entirely inapplicable — the certified class is direct purchasers, meaning distributors and chains that bought straight from the producers between 2010 and 2016. There is no consumer class in this case at all. The notice period opens on September 15 and the deadline is October 30, and here is who those dates are actually for.
Every Aggregator Is Telling CRST Drivers They Have Until October 5 to File a Claim. There Is No Claim Form. The Settlement Pays Automatically, the Average Is $1,874.10, and the Only Thing October 5 Can Do Is Take You Out of It.
Huckaby v. CRST Expedited, Inc., No. 2:21-cv-07766-ODW-PD, won preliminary approval from Judge Otis D. Wright II on June 4, 2026: $14.5 million, non-reversionary, for 4,512 California truck drivers paid by the mile. The settlement website's own instruction for class members is the words “DO NOTHING” followed by “No Deadline,” and its FAQ says it in a sentence — you do not need to do anything to receive your payment. Yet the listings that rank for this case put “claim deadline 10/05/2026” at the top. October 5 is the opt-out and objection date. A driver who reads it as a filing deadline and misses it loses nothing; a driver who acts on it by opting out loses roughly $1,874.
A Pennsylvania Moviegoer Has Sued AMC Over the Convenience Fee. Here Is Why It Had to Be Pennsylvania: the Federal Junk-Fee Rule Says in So Many Words That Film Screenings Are Not Live Events. And Every Cinema Fee Settlement You Can Actually Claim From Has Already Closed.
Late in August 2026 a class action was filed in a Pennsylvania state court against AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. over the mandatory “Convenience Fee” that appears late in the online ticket flow — avoidable online only by paying $17.99 a year to join AMC Stubs Premiere. There is no settlement, no claim form and nothing to file. What makes the case worth understanding is the gap it sits in. The FTC's fee rule has been in force since May 2025, but it covers live-event tickets and short-term lodging, and the FTC's own guidance says film screenings are not live events. Pennsylvania's own junk-fee bill passed the House in June 2025 and has sat in a Senate committee ever since. So this plaintiff is suing without the statute that produced millions in settlements from AMC, Regal and Fandango in New York. The case number, GD-26-008641 in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas, was reported later by Top Class Actions; the county docket requires an account, and we have not checked it ourselves.
Route App Is Being Sued Over the Little Shipping-Protection Box That Is Already Ticked When You Reach Checkout. The Complaint Quotes Route Telling Merchants to Leave It That Way — “With 98% of Our Other Merchants.” Meanwhile Route Is the Company Lobbying Regulators to Crack Down on Its Competitors.
Mertson v. Route App, Inc., No. 3:26-cv-01172-ECC-ML, was filed in the Northern District of New York on June 3, 2026 — several write-ups say Southern, and the docket says otherwise. Two New York shoppers say they paid $2.95 and $1.55 for “Shipping Protection” they never knowingly bought, because the box adding it was pre-selected and, in the complaint's words, “so tiny and purposely designed to go unnoticed.” The fee can be unticked — most coverage says it cannot — but the complaint's point is that it is presented as mandatory, and on May 7, 2026 a federal judge in Illinois held that a reasonable consumer could read it that way and let a near-identical case proceed. There is no settlement and no claim form; the case is three months old and Route has not answered. The stranger part of the story is regulatory: in March 2024 Route itself stood before the NAIC's insurance regulators and urged them to treat its unlicensed competitors as insurers.
The American Express Credit-Reporting Lawsuit Is One Man's Case, Not a Class Action — Nobody Can Join It. But the Procedure He Used Is Available to Anyone, and It Is the Only Way an Individual Can Sue a Lender Over a Wrong Credit Entry at All.
Pohl v. American Express National Bank, No. 2:26-cv-02094 (E.D. Cal.), alleges that after two business accounts were settled — with an email from Amex on February 21, 2026 confirming the payments went through — both were still being reported to TransUnion, Experian and Equifax as unpaid charged-off debts, refreshed roughly every 30 days. When the plaintiff disputed it, the complaint says Amex told the bureaus the entries were verified as accurate. It was filed on June 5, 2026, not September, and it is a single plaintiff's suit: there is no class, no claim form and nothing to sign up for. What is worth your time is the mechanism underneath it, because federal law gives you exactly one route to sue a furnisher and it only opens after you dispute through a bureau.
There Are Two Driscoll's PFAS Lawsuits, Not One. Neither Mentions Fluopyram. And Neither Claims a Single U.S. Limit Was Exceeded — Because None Was.
Two class actions say Driscoll's sold strawberries carrying residues of eight fluorinated pesticides while marketing them as “Only the Finest Berries.” We read both complaints in full. The chemicals everyone is naming in the coverage — fluopyram, TFA — appear in neither filing: zero hits, either one. The residue data comes from a consumer blog that tested two clamshells at a laboratory it does not name. And the complaints go out of their way to say the foreign limits they cite are not being asserted as legal duties. That is not a weakness we invented; it is paragraph 99. Here is what is actually alleged, and how nearly every comparable PFAS consumer case has ended.
The Outshine Fruit Bar Recall Covers 60 Lot-and-Date Combinations Across Six UPCs — and Two of Those Same UPCs Were Recalled for Foreign Objects in 2020. A Recall Pays You Back for the Box. It Is Not a Settlement.
Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream pulled five Outshine flavours on August 16, 2026 after consumer reports of glass in the product, then widened it on August 18 to include the 24-count variety pack. A matching flavour is not enough to tell whether your box is affected — you need the UPC, the lot code and the best-before date to line up. We have all sixty combinations here. We also have three things the coverage is getting wrong, including a Dreyer's lawsuit that two major consumer-legal sites still list as pending and which was actually dismissed with prejudice in May.
The National Aquarium Is Being Sued Over a $4.95 “Transaction Fee” — for the Second Time. A Maryland Court Threw the First Case Out in March. Nobody Reporting This Has Mentioned That.
Matvey v. National Aquarium, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-01912-ABA, was filed on May 14, 2026 — not, as the coverage implies, in late August. It is the second run at the same fee: Aguilar-Leigh v. National Aquarium was dismissed by the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on March 11, 2026, and a motion to alter that judgment was denied on April 27. The new case is in federal court, brought under District of Columbia law rather than Maryland law, and the aquarium's motion to dismiss — filed August 3 with the entire state-court file attached as exhibits — is undecided. And the two D.C. plaintiffs here were plaintiffs in the dismissed Maryland case too, represented by the same lawyer. Also worth knowing: the FTC's junk-fee rule does not cover this, and we can show you why from the rule's own text.
Two Companies, One Address, Two Different Letters — and a Single $850,000 Settlement That Closes October 22. You Do Not Need the Notice ID, and the Official Documents Disagree About Which Receipts Count.
Kennedy v. EFS Advisors, LLC, No. 30-cv-24-649, is one settlement covering two separate groups of people who got letters ten and a half weeks apart: clients of an investment advisory firm, and participants in employer benefit programs run by a different company trading as Aviben. Both sit at 1995 E. Rum River Drive S. in Cambridge, Minnesota; and no document we read establishes that either owns the other. $50 with no proof at all, up to $2,500 with receipts, one year of three-bureau credit monitoring — and the claim portal explicitly lets you file without a Notice ID. One warning the aggregator sites are getting wrong: the settlement agreement and the claim form say credit-monitoring costs count from December 6, 2024, while the mailed notice says February 22, 2024.
The Fidelity Data Breach Settlement Closed on July 27. Its Own Website Still Says the Court “Still Has to Decide” — and the Regulator's File Says Fidelity Never Told Some of the Victims at All.
In re: Fidelity Investments Data Breach Litigation, No. 1:24-cv-12601-LTS (D. Mass.), was finally approved and judgment entered on July 9, 2026. The claim deadline was July 27, 2026; the claim page now says so, while the homepage and FAQ of the same site still carry the pre-hearing language. If you are arriving now, there is nothing to file. What is still worth knowing is in a document almost nobody has read: the Massachusetts Securities Division consent order, which puts the intrusion at 23.7 million automated requests that pulled roughly 373,000 document images — and finds that Fidelity “failed to provide notice … to certain Massachusetts residents,” beneficiaries and minors among them.
Festival Foods Managers Are Reading About a $7.5 Million Overtime Settlement. Nothing Has Been Approved, No Class Has Been Certified, and the $7,418 Average Being Quoted Does Not Survive Long Division.
Dyer v. Skogen's Foodliner, Inc. d/b/a Festival Foods, No. 3:25-cv-00322 (W.D. Wis.), before Judge James D. Peterson. The motion to approve the settlement was filed on August 21, 2026 and has not been ruled on. No administrator has been named publicly, and there is no website, no claim form and no deadline of any kind. The part that matters more than the number: the federal half of this case is a collective action, where people who do nothing get nothing — and the court has pointedly refused to call anything “conditionally certified,” describing that phrase as “a misnomer” and making the plaintiffs strike it from their own notice.
483,126 People in a Catholic Health Database Left Open for 47 Days, and a Claim Window That Closed Three Days Ago. The Hearing Is Still Twelve Days Away.
Nancy Balzer, et al., v. Serviceaide, Inc., Index No. 625615/2025, Supreme Court of New York, Nassau County, before Hon. Lisa A. Cairo. The claim deadline was September 1, 2026; we checked the Kroll claim portal on September 4 and it returns “Deadline Passed.” A widely read roundup still lists the case under September 2026 — the deadline fell on the first day of that month. Two things are worth reading anyway: the investigation found no evidence anything was copied but could not rule it out, while this same case’s own settlement papers speak of unlawful access — and the final approval hearing on September 16 is still ahead.
The Albany College of Pharmacy Settlement Has No Cap at All — and Pays $80 for Four Hours of Your Time on a Signature and a Short Description. Its Own Documents Set Three Different Claim Tests.
Levin, et al. v. Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Index No. 906277-25, Supreme Court of New York, Albany County. Roughly 26,411 people got letters — and not only students: the agreement covers “current and former employees, patients, applicants, and students.” Of the three settlements we read together this week it is the friendliest construction: “administered on a wholly claims-made basis, with no aggregate cap”, fees and administration paid separately by the college, and four attested hours at $20 that beat the $25 flat payment. Watch the dates: the notice says online by November 16 but postmarked by November 15 — a Sunday — while the claim form says “received by” November 16.
This Mental Health Settlement Has No Opt-Out. Once the Judge Signs Off, Your Claims Are Released Whether You File or Not — and the $40 Is the Only Payment That Can Be Cut.
Campbell, et al. v. Mental Health Association, Inc., Docket No. 2579CV00419, Superior Court of Hampden County, Massachusetts. The defendant is the non-profit provider at 350 Memorial Drive in Chicopee, Massachusetts — not Mental Health America, and not the Gándara case that search engines keep mixing in. Claims close November 19, 2026. Read the rights summary carefully: it lists two options, not three. We searched the notice and the agreement — “objection” appears 43 times, “opt-out” and “request for exclusion” appear zero times.
Every Write-Up Says the Peco Foods Settlement Pays “Up to $6,550.” The Approval Motion Itself Estimates $100. Claims Close November 9.
Ryan, et al., v. Peco Foods Inc., No. 63-CV-2025-900067, Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, before Judge Corey G. Seale. A $950,000 non-reversionary fund for 46,442 people — the 48,170 in circulation is the 2024 notification figure. The headline figure adds three numbers that cannot all be collected, and the largest of them is a residual: the plaintiffs' own motion calls it a “residual cash payment of up to $550, but estimated to be $100.00.” What is genuinely good here: three years of three-bureau credit monitoring, and three years of binding security commitments that no aggregator mentions at all.
The FragranceNet Text-Message Case Was Filed on August 11 and Has No Settlement and No Claim Form. And the “$1,500 per text” Being Quoted Is the Wrong Half of the Statute.
Andrea Velazquez v. Telescents, Inc. d/b/a FragranceNet, No. 2:26-cv-08890, filed in the Central District of California on August 11, 2026. The caption on page one names the claims: 47 U.S.C. § 227(c) plus the do-not-call and quiet-hours regulations — not § 227(b), the automated-dialer provision. That distinction decides the money. Section 227(c)(5) says a plaintiff may recover “up to $500 in damages for each such violation”; the flat $500 everyone quotes lives in the subsection this complaint does not plead, and trebling is discretionary. There is nothing to file and nothing to claim: as of the last docket update on August 19, the newest entry was the court's own opening order.
Northrop Grumman Settled in the Middle of Trial for $75 Million. The Notice Tells 3,294 Canoga Park and Winnetka Homeowners to Expect $7,494 to $21,110 a House — Estimates That Already Assume the Lawyers Get the Full $30 Million. One Check per Home, About $444 for People Who Already Sold, and Claims Close October 10.
Behar v. Northrop Grumman Corp. (C.D. Cal., No. 2:21-cv-03946-HDV-SK) is the class action over the trichloroethylene and perchloroethylene that Litton Systems’ printed-circuit-board plant at 8020 Deering Avenue left in the groundwater under the west San Fernando Valley between 1968 and 1970. Judge Hernán D. Vera certified the class on July 1, 2024; the parties settled during trial, the court preliminarily approved the deal on July 28, 2026, and notice went out August 11. We read the settlement agreement, the long-form notice, the preliminary-approval order and the class-certification order rather than the summaries. The per-home figures are real, but they are estimates built on a 40 percent fee request, paid once per house no matter how many owners, and the pool for people who already sold is exactly $100,000.
Nobody Has Announced That Wells Fargo’s $56.85 Million Checks Went Out. Our Search Data Suggests They Did: “Stoff Class Action Settlement” Went From Zero to 110 Google Impressions on Our Tracker on August 31 — the Administrator’s Own Deadline. What the Name Means, What the Net Fund Is, and the 90-Day Clock.
Stoff v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (San Diego Superior Court, No. 37-2020-00020808-CU-BT-CTL) is the CARES Act settlement for California mortgage borrowers whose pandemic forbearance was reported to the credit bureaus. The court approved it on June 10, 2026 and the administrator promised checks “by the end of August 2026.” As of this morning the official site says nothing more — no “mailed,” no date. We cannot see mailboxes. We can see Google Search Console for our own tracker page, and on August 31 people started typing a phrase that appears in no news headline we found: the case name. We show the numbers, say what they can and cannot prove, and do the fund arithmetic from the fee order. The one number nobody has published is how many people are splitting it.
Sportsman’s Guide Will Pay Up to $1,015,000 Because Pennsylvania Customers’ Online Gun Orders Were Allegedly Shared With Third Parties. Up to $145 a Person, No Receipt, Venmo Accepted — but Only for Pennsylvanians Who Ordered or Reserved a Firearm Between January 2021 and July 2026. Claims Close October 5.
DeLong v. Sportsman’s Guide, LLC (Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, No. CV-25-000911) is the second Pennsylvania firearms-privacy settlement we have seen this year; the first, against Sportsman’s Warehouse, has its final approval hearing today. The claims rest on two state statutes — the Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Control Act and the Uniform Firearms Act’s confidentiality clause — and on the allegation that the retailer’s website disclosed what Pennsylvanians were buying. Sportsman’s Guide denies it. We read the official FAQ and the dates page rather than the aggregators; the site itself lists the hearing at two different times.
Clear Eyes Recalled 39,060 Bottles of Maximum Itchy Eye Relief for a “Lack of Assurance of Sterility.” One Lot, One Expiration Date, a Refund at the Register — and, as of Today, No Lawsuit. What the Class II Label Actually Means, and Why Eye Drops Are the One Product Where That Phrase Gets a Second Look.
The FDA’s enforcement report lists recall D-0766-2026: Prestige Brands Holdings of Tarrytown, New York, voluntarily pulled Clear Eyes Maximum Itchy Eye Relief, lot 2552A, expiration September 30, 2027, from nationwide distribution on July 29, 2026; the agency classified it Class II on August 14 and published it on August 19. No adverse events have been reported. Search demand for “clear eyes recall” hit the top of our page-candidate monitor on September 2, the day Top Class Actions covered the recall, and the question people are asking — is there a lawsuit? — has a plain answer: not that we can find. Here is the record, the meaning of the words on it, and what a claim would need that this recall does not yet supply.
Unilever Paid a Reported $1.5 Billion for Dr. Squatch. The Brand Will Pay $9 Million Over the Word “Natural” — 50 Cents a Product, Five Products Without a Receipt, $12.50 at Most. The Twist Is in the Fine Print: If Few People File, the 50 Cents Goes Up. Claims Close November 27.
Guzman v. Dr. Squatch, LLC (Los Angeles Superior Court, No. 25STCV03523) settles three years of litigation in three courts over one word on the label. The court signed preliminary approval on July 15, 2026; the class period runs from November 1, 2018 to August 29, 2026, and the official site went live with a claim form at the end of August. We read the settlement agreement, the claim form and the long-form notice rather than the summaries. The per-product rate is a starting point, not a ceiling: the agreement says it is “increased on a pro rata basis” if valid claims come in under the net fund, and nothing reverts to the company.
Palm Beach Tan Owes Illinois Customers a Fourth and Final $322.52 Fingerprint Payment, Due Around September 4 — and a Second Settlement Just Opened That Pays Up to $1,500 for Every Text Sent After You Replied STOP. Same Company, Two Cases, One of Them Closing October 4.
The largest indoor tanning chain in the United States is paying out under two settlements at once. The old one, Rottner v. Palm Beach Tan (Cook County, No. 2015-CH-16695), is a $10.3 million Illinois biometric case paid in four annual installments — the administrator's site still reads “the first payment of $322.52 was sent out on August 18, 2022,” with the rest “anticipated on September 4” each year. The new one, Hudson v. Palm Beach Tan & Archer Malmo (M.D.N.C., No. 1:23-cv-00486), is a $2.5 million Telephone Consumer Protection Act settlement for anyone texted after texting back “stop” between June 19, 2019 and July 5, 2026. The plaintiff replied STOP at least ten times; the chain's system replied “You have opted-out” and kept sending.
CUSO Financial Sent Its Customers Two Breach Letters in 2024. The Second One — 75,116 People, an Intruder Inside a Compliance-Archiving Vendor for a Month — Is Now a $1.75 Million Settlement: Up to $5,000 Documented, Up to $599 in Cash, and Nothing Without the Claim Number and PIN From the Letter. Claims Close November 16.
CUSO Financial Services is the San Diego broker-dealer that sells investments through credit unions. Sinitsa v. CUSO Financial Services, L.P. (Tulare County Superior Court, No. VCU326251) settles the incident CUSO disclosed in October 2024: unauthorized access to one employee's account at the third-party vendor that archives its communications for FINRA, between December 19, 2023 and January 19, 2024. It is not the incident CUSO wrote to customers about that February, which involved an email-system vulnerability and data from 2022. The official site lists the benefits and dates; the fee request and the class size come from the notice as reported by claim trackers and the state breach filings, and we say so where it matters.
One in Five Felony Probation Terms Ends in Jail — and Until It Ends Cleanly, the Record Clock Never Starts
New federal figures put 3.68 million adults under community supervision. Among probation terms that ended in 2024 with a known outcome, 57.9% were completed successfully — 55.6% for felony probation, where 21.9% ended in incarceration instead.
Florida Just Doubled the Estate That Can Skip Full Probate — and the $15 Million Federal Number Has Nothing to Do With It
Since July 1, an estate worth up to $150,000 can use Florida's summary administration instead of full probate; the old ceiling was $75,000. The two thresholds people confuse — the estate tax exemption and the probate threshold — differ by a factor of a thousand.
$111 Billion in Unpaid Child Support — Four Years' Worth of Everything the System Collects
The federal FY 2025 figures are out. Collections fell to $26.6 billion, the share of cases that received any money at all dropped to 59.5%, and the backlog has not moved in five years.
9,979 People Died in Crashes Involving a Drinking Driver — and the State You Die In Changes the Odds Threefold
The 2024 federal crash file shows alcohol involved in 25.4% of road deaths nationally. In Montana it is 44.7%. In New York it is 14.3%. The length of a state's first-offense license suspension barely predicts which side it lands on.
Speeding Killed More People Than Alcohol Last Year — and Florida Records It in One Death in Nine, Montana in Four
11,288 of 39,254 road deaths in 2024 were coded speeding-related: 28.8% nationally, against 25.4% for alcohol. The state spread is even wider than for drink, and the obvious explanation — sloppy record-keeping — does not survive being checked.
608,511 Bankruptcies in a Year — and Whether You Get Chapter 7 Depends on Where You Live
Filings rose 12.2% in the 12 months to June 30. Buried in the same federal tables is a fact nobody reports: the share of cases filed under Chapter 7 runs from 25% in Louisiana to 91% in Idaho.
The IRS Will Keep Charging 7% on What You Owe — and It Compounds Daily
Interest rates hold steady for the quarter beginning October 1. On a $10,000 balance carried for a year that is $725 in interest, before the separate late-payment penalty adds $600 on top.
The IRS Has Postponed Tax Deadlines in a Dozen States — Three of Them Run Out on September 28
Disaster declarations have pushed filing and payment deadlines to September 28, November 2, or as far as February 1, 2027, depending on where you live. The relief is automatic if your address is in a covered county — and easy to miss if it is not.
VW Atlas Water Pump Settlement: Claims Close October 5, and the Warranty Extension Runs to 85,000 Miles
Owners and lessees of 2018-2022 Atlas and Atlas Cross Sport models with the 3.6-liter engine can claim 80% of what they paid for a failed water pump, capped at $820, plus up to two head gasket repairs capped at $3,325.
OCTROT Heated Blanket Recall: 555 Reports, 27 Fires — and the Refund Requires You to Cut the Cord
178,000 heated sherpa throws sold only on Amazon between 2021 and 2025. The controller cord can detach and ignite. To get money back you must destroy the blanket first and photograph it.
Madewell Sued Over 'Fake Sales' — the Complaint Says the Crossed-Out Price Was Never Real
A California class action alleges Madewell shows inflated reference prices that the products were not actually sold at, making every discount look bigger than it was.
Maple Leaf Foods Bacon Recall: 12,036 Pounds Pulled — and the Sell-By Dates Are This Week
Smoked bacon imported from Canada without the required reinspection, distributed in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. No contamination has been found — the problem is a missed inspection step.
SCE Has Paid Nearly $450 Million to More Than 3,000 Eaton Fire Claimants — Its Own Example Shows the Average Total-Loss Homeowner Getting $754,204 From the Program After $946,423 From Insurance. Claims Close November 30.
Southern California Edison's Wildfire Recovery Compensation Program is the only Eaton Fire money moving right now: 4,350 claims, 6,000 claimants with offers worth $830 million, 3,000 paid. Searches for “SCE settlement calculator” and “SCE lawsuit payout” spiked on September 1. There is no calculator — but SCE has published its formulas, its fixed “Direct Claim Premium” table ($200,000 for a destroyed owner-occupied home, $5 million per death), a 20% add-on for claimants who come through a lawyer, and anonymized real payouts. We lay them out, plus the tax bill that passed Congress on August 7 and, as far as we can find, still awaits a signature.
Apple's $250 Million Siri Settlement Covers About 37 Million iPhones — $6.76 Each if Everyone Claimed. The Court Presumes $25, Caps It at $95, and as of September 1 There Is Still No Website to Claim On.
This is not the Siri settlement that paid out in January. That was Lopez v. Apple, $95 million, for recordings — and it is closed. The new one is Landsheft v. Apple, $250 million, for iPhone 16 and 15 Pro buyers who were sold “Apple Intelligence” Siri features that did not arrive. Judge Noel Wise granted preliminary approval on July 17, 2026 and ordered notice to begin within 45 days — by August 31. On August 28 Apple filed a stipulation to push the notice date, the claims deadline and the opt-out deadline back; the trade press reports the proposed new dates as September 21 and December 21. Here is what the court documents actually say, and the arithmetic behind “$25 to $95.”
A Court Ordered San Diego to Refund About $79.5 Million in Water Overcharges. Its Customers Are Settling for $40 Million — Roughly $62 Each for 436,069 Households, With a Third Going to the Lawyers. No Claim Form. Opt-Out by September 28.
Patz v. City of San Diego took eleven years: a 2015 lawsuit, a 2019 class certification, a judgment that the city's tiered single-family water rates violated Proposition 218, a 2–1 appellate decision in July 2025 affirming it — and then a new state law, written for water agencies, that put the refund itself in doubt. The settlement that followed is half the judgment. Refunds are automatic, calculated from city billing records, and the settlement website was still “under construction” when we checked on September 1. The only dates that matter right now are September 28, 2026 (opt out or object) and December 11, 2026 (fairness hearing).
Every Reported Meta Settlement Total Is Different — $16.7B, $17.1B, $18B. The Signed Court Document Has Two Tables That Explain All Three, and a State List Where Texas and Florida Have No Number at All.
The executed consent judgment in the states' social-media case against Meta was filed on August 26, 2026 as Document 572-1 in Case 4:23-cv-05448-YGR. Its Exhibit B allocates money to exactly 51 states and territories and totals $16,680,647,753.21. Its Exhibit E adds $459,293,017.80 for the separate Cambridge Analytica matter across 47 jurisdictions. Add them and you get $17,139,940,771 — the “$17.1 billion” in the attorneys general press releases. But Exhibit D names 55 eligible jurisdictions, and four of them — Texas, Florida, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands — appear nowhere in the payment table. We publish the full official table below.
John Deere's $99 Million Is the Small Part of This Settlement. The Piece Valued at Up to $648 Million Requires No Claim Form — and Older Coverage Lists Deadlines That Are No Longer the Deadlines.
In re Deere & Company Repair Services Antitrust Litigation (MDL No. 3030, N.D. Ill., No. 3:22-cv-50188) settles right-to-repair claims covering everyone who paid a John Deere dealer for repair work on large agricultural equipment between January 10, 2018 and May 18, 2026. The official notice puts the total value at $392.9 million to $747 million — of which $293.9 million to $648 million is the injunctive relief, which applies to every class member whether or not they file anything. The cash fund is $99 million, and up to $51.175 million of it can come off the top for fees, costs and service awards before a single farmer is paid. Claims close December 31, 2026; opt-outs and objections December 4; the hearing is January 19, 2027 in Rockford.
The Lawyers in This Data Breach Case Are Asking for $168,000 — Roughly What 3,360 Class Members Would Collect at $50 Each. And California Casualty, Not a Settlement Fund, Pays Both.
Amin v. California Casualty Indemnity Exchange (Superior Court of San Joaquin County, No. STK-CV-UBT-2026-0003331) settles claims over a targeted cyberattack that ran from September 2 to September 8, 2025 and reached files containing Social Security numbers, passport numbers, medical and health-insurance information and financial account numbers. The benefits are the ordinary two — $50 with no paperwork, or up to $4,000 with documentation — plus two years of credit monitoring with $1 million of fraud insurance. What is not ordinary is the size: the fee request is $168,000, an order of magnitude below the typical breach settlement, and the settlement website names no common fund at all. Claims close November 16, 2026.
ConnectOnCall Will Pay $4.95 Million Over a Breach That Reached 914,138 Patients' After-Hours Calls — the No-Receipt Payment Tops Out at $75, You Do Not Need a Letter to File, and Claims Close November 2
ConnectOnCall was the after-hours answering service behind thousands of doctors' offices. Between February 16 and May 12, 2024, someone else was reading the messages. The settlement in In re ConnectOnCall.com Data Breach Litigation (E.D.N.Y., No. 2:24-cv-08790) puts $4,950,000 into a non-reversionary fund; class counsel will ask for up to $1,650,000 of it and the administrator estimates another $490,000 to run the claims process. Anyone in the U.S. whose information “may have been impacted” is in the class — no notice letter required — and the claim form asks only that you attest to having communicated after-hours with a healthcare provider at some point in the ten years ending May 12, 2024. Opt-out and objections close October 19; claims close November 2; the hearing is November 17 in Central Islip.
Central Maine Healthcare First Reported Its Breach as Affecting 8 People, Then 145,381 — Now $1.37 Million Is on the Table for 218,884 Letter Recipients, the Opt-Out Deadline Falls on a Sunday, and Claims Close September 28
In re Central Maine Data Security Litigation settles six consolidated class actions over unauthorized access to Central Maine Healthcare and Central Maine Medical Center systems from roughly March to June 2025. The fund is $1,368,025 and non-reversionary; class counsel will ask for up to one-third of it. Only people who received an individual notification letter are in the class — the settlement agreement puts that list at approximately 218,884 names, well above the 145,381 the health system reported to the Maine Attorney General in January. Claimants can take up to $5,000 for documented losses or a pro rata cash payment the site estimates at $50, and everyone can add a year of medical-records monitoring. Opt-outs and objections must be postmarked by Sunday, September 13; claims close Monday, September 28; the hearing is October 28 in Auburn, Maine.
YES Communities' Ransomware Settlement Pays a Flat $50 With No Proof — and Unlike Most Breach Deals There Is No Fund to Run Out, Because the Company Pays Every Valid Claim Separately; 10,675 People, Claims Close November 5
O'Leary v. YES Communities, LLC (D. Colo., No. 1:25-cv-00692) settles five consolidated class actions over a December 9–11, 2024 ransomware attack on one of the country's largest manufactured-home-community operators. The forensic count is 10,675 people, and the data list runs from Social Security numbers to passport numbers, visa and work-eligibility documents and employee ID numbers. The benefits are ordinary — up to $2,500 documented, $20 an hour for up to four hours, or $50 with no paperwork, plus three years of IDX credit monitoring — but the structure is not: there is no settlement fund. The administrator invoices YES Communities for every valid claim, and the $217,000 fee request, the service awards and the administration costs are all paid separately, so no claimant dilutes another. Opt-outs and objections are due October 21; claims close November 5; the hearing is November 20 in Denver.
Six Pork Producers Will Pay $117 Million Over Bacon and Chops Bought Between 2014 and 2018 — Tyson Alone Owes $85 Million, Claims Run to October 29, and Shoppers in 27 States Are Not in the Class
The notice campaign for the last six settlements in the consumer pork price-fixing case started on August 28, 2026. Tyson ($85 million), Clemens ($13.5 million), Seaboard ($10 million), Hormel ($4.465 million) and Triumph ($4.1 million) will pay a combined $117.065 million; Agri Stats pays nothing and agrees to change how it reports data. You qualify only if you bought raw pork at a store in one of 23 states or D.C. between June 28, 2014 and June 30, 2018. Claim, opt-out and objection deadlines all fall on the same day — October 29, 2026 — and the official site says plainly that nobody yet knows what a claim will pay.
New York City Will Pay Up to $475 for Every Time You Were Held in Central Booking — $21.5 Million Across Three Cases, the City's Own Jail Records Set the Count, and Claims Close October 19
Three consolidated class actions — Capobianco, Brennan and Aboubakar v. The City of New York — settle claims that detainees were held in unconstitutional conditions at the city's Central Booking facilities. The class covers Brooklyn Central Booking from April 8, 2017 to December 27, 2019 and every Central Booking location from February 3, 2020 to March 1, 2023. Payment is per detention, not per person, and the number of detentions comes from Department of Correction records. The claim deadline is October 19, 2026; opt-outs and objections close two weeks earlier, on October 5. Attorneys' fees of up to $2.95 million are paid by the city on top of the fund, not out of it.
American Consumer Credit Counseling Closed Claims on September 16: $45 With No Proof — or Up to $3,500 With Receipts — After Social Security Numbers Left Through Its Email in January 2025, and the Notice Offered No Way to Opt Out
Dinkel v. American Consumer Credit Counseling settles a class action over a January 2025 incident in which a criminal third party got into employee email accounts at the Massachusetts nonprofit. Files may have held names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, financial account numbers and payment card data. Every class member can take three years of credit monitoring plus either a flat $45 with no documentation or up to $3,500 in documented losses and $80 for lost time. The claim window closed on September 16, 2026, and the objection deadline passed on August 17; what remains is the October 8 final approval hearing and the payment timetable. The court-approved notice listed exactly three options, none of which was leaving the settlement.
1.77 Million Attic Ladders Recalled Because the Bolts Can Snap — the Free Fix Is Two Bolts, and the Model Number You Need Is Inside the Door You Were Just Told to Stop Using
Louisville Ladder recalled 1,770,000 attic stairway ladders on August 6, 2026 after 11 reports of a bolt breaking, one of them causing injury to a person's neck, head and back. The ladders sold at Home Depot, Lowe's and Amazon for nearly fourteen years — November 2012 through July 2026 — at $170 to $600. The remedy is a free repair kit containing two replacement quarter-inch spreader bolts. One detail decides whether any of this applies to you, and most coverage leaves it out: the recall covers ladders with gas struts only.
State Farm Will Pay Louisiana Drivers Exactly $28.39 Over Totaled Cars — Two of the Three Deadlines Already Passed, and the One That Pays Runs to October 19
The settlement in Deborah Robin v. State Farm covers Louisiana policyholders whose totaled vehicle was paid out without the full purchasing fees — sales tax, title, notary, registration, plate transfer and tag fees. The amount is not an estimate and not pro rata: the settlement sets a flat $28.39. The opt-out and objection windows both closed on August 18. The claim deadline is October 19, 2026. And unusually, the attorneys' fees do not come out of it — State Farm pays those separately.
Meta Will Pay About $18 Billion Over Teen Harm — but There Is No Claim Form, and the Last 30% Is Up to YouTube and TikTok
Meta settled the landmark state trial in Los Angeles on Wednesday, ending a case 29 states filed in 2023. The number in the headlines is not the number Meta is certain to pay: 70% goes to the states in annual installments over ten years, and the final 30% is released only if YouTube and TikTok pay the states as well and make the same changes to their own apps. For families, nothing is claimable — the hundreds of individual and school-district lawsuits are a separate track this deal does not touch.
The 'Equinox' Breach Settlement Paying About $100 Is Not the Gym — It's an Albany Mental-Health Nonprofit, and Claims Close October 23
Search “Equinox data breach” and most people picture the luxury fitness chain. The settlement that is actually open belongs to Equinox, Inc., a mental-health services nonprofit in Albany, New York — and what leaked in its April 2024 incident was not workout history. The official notice lists diagnoses, medication information, patient IDs and Social Security numbers. Anyone who received a notice letter can claim an estimated $100 without proof, or up to $5,000 with documentation, until October 23, 2026.
A Judge Approved the Largest Credit-Reporting Settlement on Record — $100 Million for 4 Million People. There Is Nothing to File Yet
On August 17 a federal judge in Atlanta granted preliminary approval to a $100 million settlement over credit scores Equifax miscalculated during a three-week stretch in 2022 — reported as the largest Fair Credit Reporting Act settlement in history. No claim form, no claim deadline and no settlement website exist yet, and the final approval hearing is not until January 22, 2027. Meanwhile a second, much smaller and completely unrelated Equifax settlement was closing in days, and the two were being mixed up. Update, September 2, 2026: that Bradberry window closed on September 1.
“Return to Kroll, P.O. Box 980108” Is a Real Address — but It Is Not a Settlement Check. DentaQuest’s Own Unfilled Mail Template Explains Why Those Three Words Reach Customers of Companies With Nothing in Common
In the seven days to August 26, 232 different search queries about Kroll reached this site — 3,164 impressions, 63 clicks. Nearly all of them ask one question about one envelope, and the answer is not the one most people are hoping for.
Oracle’s $115 Million Privacy Settlement Starts Paying on September 21 — but the Claim Deadline Was October 17, 2024, and Nothing Anyone Does Now Can Reopen It
The appeals ended on June 22. The court-authorised settlement site has now published a distribution window: cheques and transfers go out from September 21 and should be finished by December 7. Only people who filed almost two years ago are in it.
Washington Lets a Job Applicant Collect Up to $5,000 for a Posting With No Salary Range. Red Robin Claims Closed September 25; Zales and Sterling Close September 28
One state statute, a fixed penalty band, and a wave of class actions from people who never got the job. The maximum is $5,000 per violation; the amounts actually being paid are a fraction of that, and one of the two open cases has never been written up anywhere.
Home Buyers Have Until 11:59 Tonight to Claim From a $28.5 Million Commission Settlement — and a Second, Separate One Worth $120,334,500 Stays Open Until October 27
Two different homebuyer antitrust settlements are running at the same time, in the same courthouse, on two different websites, with two different claim forms and two different sets of state-by-state cut-off dates. One closes at 11:59 p.m. Central tonight. The other runs another nine weeks and is more than four times larger. Filing in one does not file you in the other. Neither one covers you for selling a home — that was a different case entirely.
Hillcrest’s Data Breach Settlement Has a $50 No-Proof Payment — but Only the “Group 1” Subclass Can Take It, and the Judge Already Held the Hearing Two Days Before Claims Close
Roughly 106,000 people were notified. The court-authorised notice splits them into two subclasses on a single criterion — whether a Social Security number was in the file — and only one of those subclasses is offered cash without proof. The other is offered credit monitoring and a receipts-only reimbursement. The final approval hearing was August 24. The claim window shuts August 26. And there is no settlement fund figure anywhere in the notice.
KYB’s Breach Settlement Covers 2,041 People and Caps Cash at $250,000. If Every Single One of Them Took the $75, the Cap Still Would Not Bind — With $96,925 Left Over
Settlement caps usually work against claimants: too many people file, everyone’s payment shrinks. Here the arithmetic runs the other way, and it is arithmetic anyone can check. The class is small, the cap is comparatively large, and the administrator’s own language says the $75 “may be larger or smaller depending on the total claims filed.” Claims closed August 26. The judge does not rule until September 25.
Glenmark Sued Over Carvedilol Nitrosamine Contamination — 17 Months After the First Recall
A class action filed in Eastern Washington alleges Glenmark's generic heart medication contained nitrosamine impurities and was made outside federal quality standards. The company recalled more than 732,000 bottles in March 2025 and recalled again that August.
Streamers Sue Twitch and Amazon Over AI Training — 'No Email, No Pop-Up, No Announcement'
A Connecticut creator filed a proposed class action in Northern California on August 20, alleging Amazon used Twitch streams to train generative AI models without licences, permission or notice.
Tesla Recalls 20,349 Model Y and Model 3 Cars — the Headlights Are Too Bright to Be Legal
NHTSA recall 26V507000 covers low beams that exceed the federal brightness limit. Tesla has not yet said what the fix will be, and owner letters do not go out until September 15.
8.2 Million Thermos Containers Recalled After Stoppers Shot Out — Three People Lost Their Sight Permanently
Three models sold between 2008 and 2024 can build up pressure and eject their stoppers with force. Law firms are now recruiting people who were hurt opening one.
Walmart's Bettergoods Pistachio Nut Butter Recalled in 19 States Over Salmonella
One lot code, one expiration date, and a full refund at the till. No illnesses have been reported and no lawsuit has been filed.
A Judge Signed LabCorp’s $35 Million Final Approval on August 20. Three Days Later the Official Claims Site Still Tells 11,825,034 People the Court “Still Has to Decide” — and Claims Closed September 3
The signed order is on the docket: Document 940, filed August 20, 2026, finally certifying the class, overruling three objections and awarding class counsel $11,900,000 in fees plus $2,813,558.90 in costs. The court-authorized settlement website, read on the morning of August 23, still carried the pre-hearing language. The same order reveals a class of 11,825,034 people — 1.57 million more than LabCorp disclosed in 2019 — and the same day the judge quietly gave preliminary approval to a second, much smaller lab settlement nobody has reported.
“Is Aaland v. Costco Legit?” Yes — It Is a Real $14 Million Court-Approved Settlement, and Every Single Deadline in It Expires Tomorrow, August 24
The searches spiked this week because the notices did. The case is real, the administrator is real, and the court-authorized site confirms it: claims, opt-outs and objections all die on August 24, 2026. What is not real is the “up to $500” that headlines keep quoting — the administrator’s own words are that it is “impossible to determine the final estimated payment per claimant at this point.” One claim per person, no matter how many emails Costco sent you.
WilmerHale’s Data Breach Lawsuits Were Consolidated on August 19 Into a Single “In Re” Case. Six Weeks After the Letters Went Out, the Only Count Anyone Has Sworn To Is “Thousands to Tens of Thousands”
The searches exploded this month because the notification letters, dated July 15, 2026, are still working through the mail. Here is what the docket actually shows: two federal class actions in Washington D.C., a motion to consolidate filed August 12, an order on August 18, and a docket entry on August 19 that renamed the lead case. What the docket does not show — and no regulator we can reach will confirm — is how many people were affected. Still no settlement, no fund, no claim form.
TikTok's $400M Children's-Privacy Settlement Is 41% of Every COPPA Dollar Ever Collected — and 70× Its Own 2019 Penalty
The Justice Department announced a $400 million settlement with TikTok and ByteDance on August 21 over alleged COPPA violations — the largest children's-privacy penalty in the law's 26-year history. We compiled and verified every COPPA enforcement action since 2000 to put the number in context: 52 actions, $964 million in total penalties, and 98% of those dollars date from 2019 or later.
Comcast’s $117.5 Million Settlement Was Approved on August 20 — the Judge Cut the Lawyers’ Fee by $7.4 Million, and the Court-Authorized Site Still Says the Court ‘Must Decide’
Two days ago we wrote that the court had not ruled. The docket shows it had — that same morning. Judge John M. Younge’s August 20 order grants final approval of the $117,500,000 Hasson v. Comcast settlement “in part,” awards attorneys’ fees of $31,725,000 (27% of the fund) instead of the one-third requested, and as of August 22 the official Kroll site still lists no order and still says the court “must decide.” Your September 14 claim deadline has not moved. When the money moves is a different question — and the agreement answers it more precisely than the headlines do.
Abbott Will Pay About $670 Million to Settle the $495 Million Gill Verdict and Roughly 2,000 Other NEC Formula Claims — 23 Days After Telling the SEC It Had Set Aside Nothing. Claims for 12,700 Infants Remain
The August 20 announcement, filed with the SEC the same day, is the first money Abbott has ever agreed to pay in the preterm-formula litigation. It resolves the St. Louis case whose $495 million verdict survived the Missouri Court of Appeals — Abbott says paying that judgment with interest would have cost “approximately $600 million” — plus claims for about 2,000 more infants, through three law firms. There is no class, no claim form and no public per-claim figure. Here is what the filing says, what it pointedly does not, and why “average payout” math fails on these numbers.
Kroger’s $17 Million Prescription Settlement Counts Purchases Through Tomorrow, August 23 — Then You Have Until December 21. Under $8,000 Needs No Receipts, Unless Kroger Doesn’t Know You Were a Customer
Kirkbride v. The Kroger Co. covers anyone who paid for a prescription at a Kroger-owned pharmacy using insurance between December 9, 2018 and August 23, 2026 — the class period ends on the notice date, not at some later filing cutoff. Claims are due December 21, 2026, opt-outs and objections October 22, and nothing is final until a fairness hearing on January 11, 2027. The court-authorized notice also explains two kinds of claimants the summaries skip — “Known” and “Unknown” — and that distinction decides whether you will be asked for paperwork.
3M Has Paid $3.04 Billion of Its $6 Billion Earplug Settlement — 232,434 Veterans Averaged $10,336 Each. The Next $800 Million Is Due September 15, and Points Claimants Wait for an October 1 Calculation
The administrator’s own ledger, updated August 21, 2026: $3,037,214,828 issued across all agreements, 637 Early Payment claimants still unpaid, 16,458 points-based awards paid in Cycle 1 at an average of $12,701, and 1,595 Wave-case claimants averaging $133,078. What lands on September 15 is 3M’s money into the fund, not checks in mailboxes — and the posted schedule shows why Deferred Payment Program claimants are paid in yearly cycles through 2029.
An $84 Million Settlement Paid Out Into Wells Fargo 401(k) Accounts on August 13 — Nobody Had to File a Claim, and It Is Not the Wells Fargo Settlement You Have Been Reading About
Money moved eight days ago in Randall v. GreatBanc Trust Co., and recipients are searching the case name because that is all they were given. The court-authorized site says it plainly: final approval April 20, 2026, distributions issued August 13, 2026. There was never a claim form — shares were computed from plan records. Meanwhile a completely different Wells Fargo settlement, in a California state court, mails its checks by the end of this month. Two cases, two classes, one confusing August.
Epic Was Ordered to Pay $245 Million. The FTC Says It Has Sent “Nearly $200 Million.” The Third Round Was Promised for 2026 — and the FTC’s Own Refund Page Still Carries a July 2025 Date Stamp
Searches for a 2026 Fortnite refund keep climbing, so we read the only page that decides it. Claims closed on July 9, 2025 — 408 days ago. Two rounds have gone out: 629,344 payments in December 2024 and 969,173 in June 2025. The FTC still says additional payments are expected “in 2026,” has published no date, and tells everyone who filed after February 14, 2025 to do nothing.
Every “Bard Hernia Mesh Point System” Chart Online Cites No Court Document. Bard’s Parent Filed Its Own Numbers 15 Days Ago — and Pending Claims Went Up, Not Down
Search for the Bard hernia mesh point system and you get payout tables, per-point dollar values and 2026 distribution dates. None of it traces to a filing. Becton Dickinson’s Form 10-Q, filed August 6, 2026, discloses the only hard figures that exist: approximately 7,090 hernia claims pending at June 30, 2026 versus 6,905 nine months earlier, a settlement payable “over a multi-year period,” and no hernia trials scheduled at all.
The AT&T Settlement Hearing Was 217 Days Ago and There Is Still No Ruling. Three Days Ago the Court Docketed an “Order Reassigning Case” — and the Administrator’s Own Status Note Hasn’t Changed Since April 23.
Searches for an AT&T settlement payout spiked again this week, so we checked the only source that counts. The official Kroll-run settlement site, read today, still carries an update dated April 23, 2026 saying the court “continues to consider” whether to approve. The final approval hearing was held January 15. The claim window closed on December 18, 2025 — you can no longer file. And the newest entry on the MDL master docket, dated August 17, is titled “Order Reassigning Case.”
That Comcast Letter From “Kroll” Is Real — the Same P.O. Box Mails AT&T’s Notices Too. The Hearing That Was Supposed to End This Was 15 Days Ago, and the Court Still Hasn’t Ruled. Your September 14 Deadline Is Unaffected.
Searches pairing “Kroll” with “Comcast settlement” are running hot, and the anxiety behind them is reasonable: a letter about money from a company you have never heard of looks exactly like a scam. It isn’t. Kroll Settlement Administration is the court-appointed administrator — for Comcast, for AT&T, for DentaQuest, all out of one New York P.O. box. Here is how to verify it yourself, what the August 5 hearing actually produced on the docket, and why an unapproved settlement still has a hard deadline 25 days away. Update, September 26, 2026: final approval was granted August 20, 2026, and the claim deadline passed on September 14, 2026. Update, September 26, 2026: final approval was granted August 20, 2026, and the claim deadline passed on September 14, 2026.
10,869,543 Exact Sciences Email Addresses Are Already Public — With Health Records Attached. Abbott Says It Still Hasn’t Sent the Notification Letters, 36 Days After the Breach.
The stolen Cologuard-maker data was not just threatened; it was published, and Have I Been Pwned indexed it on August 7 as a verified breach of 10.9 million email addresses carrying names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth and personal health data. Abbott’s own incident page — last updated August 5 — confirms impacted files contain personal and health information and says notifications will follow “once we have completed our review.” Eight proposed class actions were filed in eight days. What does not exist: a settlement, a claim form, or an administrator.
MCNA's 8.9-Million-Person Settlement Has a $250,000 Cash Pool — the Benefit That Matters Needs No Claim Form
Court-ordered notices hit mailboxes and the newswire in mid-August, and searches for the MCNA dental data breach settlement spiked. The official terms are unusual: two years of medical-data monitoring arrive automatically, while the entire documented-loss fund is capped at $250,000 for a class of roughly 8.9 million. Most of those people are children, which changes who has to sign. Everything closes October 19, 2026.
WilmerHale Reportedly Paid the Hackers $18 Million. Its Clients' Settlement Is $0 — and the Only Deadline That Exists Dies October 31.
One of America's most prominent law firms is the latest name in the Luna Moth extortion wave, and the search interest arrived before the facts did. There is no settlement, no claims administrator and no payout. What does exist: an official notification letter admitting a staffer was tricked into handing over data, a class action filed in Washington D.C., an unconfirmed insurance-press report of an eight-figure ransom — and an Experian enrollment code that stops working October 31, 2026.
That Penn Medicine Notice Was Real: Case No. 230102149 Closed Its Claim Window on September 16 at Up to $15 — and the Settlement's Own Documents Still Disagree by $250,000.
People are pasting the entire case caption of Mohr v. Penn Medicine into Google, which is what happens when a settlement notice lands and looks like spam. It is legitimate. But the first deadline is not the claims deadline — opting out or objecting closed September 1 — and when we compared the official website against the executed settlement agreement, the two state different totals: $9.5 million on the FAQ, a binding cap of $9.25 million in the contract.
Tepezza Payout Searches Just Doubled. The First Trial Was Scheduled for August 3 — It Never Happened, and Amgen's SEC Filings Don't Mention the Lawsuits at All.
Searches for “Tepezza lawsuit payout” doubled in a week, and the honest answer is that there are no payouts: no settlement, no verdict, no trial ever held. The bellwether date published across the legal internet arrived and passed — the court quietly struck every trial deadline back in October 2025. The federal docket has been frozen at 287 cases all summer. And in Amgen's latest quarterly filing, the litigation does not appear even once.
Equifax Agreed to Pay $100 Million Last Week — and There Is No Claim Form. The Equifax Settlement You Could Actually File Closed September 1.
Three different Equifax settlements are circulating under one name, and the one drawing the search traffic is the one you cannot act on. The $100 million deal filed August 12 had no website and no claim form when this was written. A separate Equifax settlement paying up to $600 was closing in two weeks and needed a Notice ID that starts with EQB. Update, September 2, 2026: that claim window closed on September 1; the final approval hearing is October 6, 2026. Correction, September 26, 2026: the $100 million settlement was preliminarily approved on August 17, 2026 — an earlier version said it had not been; its final approval hearing is January 22, 2027.
Sony Owes Millions of PlayStation Accounts Money and Almost Nobody Has to File. If You Deleted Your Account, You Had Until August 27.
The PlayStation Store settlement pays automatically — credits land straight in your PSN wallet, no claim form. That design quietly strands one group: anyone whose account no longer exists. Their deadline is buried in FAQ 5, falls nine days from now, and lands seven weeks before the judge even decides whether to approve the deal.
You Moved and Your Blue Cross Settlement Payment Didn't Follow. We Read the Official FAQ: There Is No Address-Change Form at All.
Payments in the Blue Cross Blue Shield subscriber settlement started going out May 11, 2026, in waves — some as paper checks, some as emailed prepaid cards. We checked all 50-plus questions on the court-authorized FAQ for what happens when a check goes to an old address. The answer is that the FAQ does not address it, which makes one phone number the entire remedy.
O'Reilly's $18.8 Million Is a Ceiling, Not a Fund — and the People Most Likely to Have Gotten the Texts Are the Ones Whose Claims Can Be Denied
Every roundup calls this an $18.8 million settlement over spam texts. The court-authorized FAQ calls the same number an "Aggregate Cap" that has to cover the payments, the fees, the administration and the service award all at once — and the fee request alone is exactly one third of it. Two things almost nobody mentions: the class is built around recycled phone numbers, and if you shopped at O'Reilly in the 18 months before the texts, your claim may be denied.
One Cash App Settlement Is Mailing Checks to People Who Never Filed Anything. The Other Took Your Claim in 2024, Won Final Approval in March 2025, and Still Has No Payment Date
Search "Cash App settlement" and you get two completely different animals wearing the same name. The CFPB redress program has no claim form, no deadline and no way to hurry it — Epiq mails checks in batches and the official FAQ admits it has no firm date. The Salinas class settlement had a hard claim deadline in November 2024 and final approval in March 2025; sixteen months later its own website still says payments are coming "in the coming months," and that status is itself four months old.
No, You Cannot Join a MyChart Class Action. Every Dollar Being Paid Out Right Now Comes From a Hospital — and One of Those Windows Closes Today
Thousands of people a month search for a MyChart lawsuit, a MyChart settlement link, or whether MyChart is being sued for selling their information. The premise is off by one step, and the step matters: there is no single nationwide case to join, the defendant on every settlement check is a health system rather than the software company, and "selling" is not what the complaints actually allege. Here is how to find out whether you are owed anything.
You Missed the Claim Deadline — and the Deadline That Actually Binds You Closed 27 Days Earlier
Duke's claim window shuts today for 872,634 people. The question that follows every closed deadline is whether anything can still be done, and the honest answer has two halves. The money is probably gone. The half nobody writes down is that you stopped being able to sue on your own back in July, whether you ever heard of this case or not.
Duke's $3.74 Million MyChart Deadline Is Sunday — but Both Ways to File Need an ID Only a Phone Line That Closed Friday Can Replace
872,634 people are in the Duke Health pixel class, and the claim window shuts August 16. The catch nobody is reporting: the online form and the paper form both demand a Unique ID printed on a postcard mailed months ago — and the only channel that can look yours up runs Monday through Friday. Here is exactly what is still possible today, what the pro rata math looks like, and why the deadline that already passed matters more than the one that hasn't.
The Delta Dental Portal Settlement Is Worth $12.67 Million and Pays You $16.50 — a Flat Rate That Cannot Rise No Matter How Few People Claim
Most settlement funds split what is left among whoever files, so a low claim rate means a bigger check. This one does not work that way. The official FAQ calls the $12,670,284 a “Settlement Benefit Cap” and fixes each payment at $16.50, a number that only moves down. It would take roughly 616,000 claims to spend the fund — and about 151,000 before the class collectively out-earns the requested legal fee.
The Smallest MyChart Settlement of the Wave May Pay the Most: $750,000, 182,303 People, and a Four-Month Class Window
MemorialCare's pixel settlement is 17 times smaller than the Delta Dental portal deal and pays no flat rate at all — which is exactly why a claimant could end up ahead. It splits a genuine pro rata fund among however few people file, and the class period is only four months wide. Two catches: you cannot file without the LoginID and PIN from your notice, and the right to object expired five weeks before the right to claim.
Costco Is Paying $14 Million Over Its Sale Emails. The “$500” Everyone Quotes Is a Statute, Not Your Check — and Claim, Opt-Out and Objection All Expire August 24
Fortune and Newsweek framed the Washington email settlement as “up to $500.” The court-authorized site says something the headlines don't: one claim per person no matter how many emails you got, an equal split of what's left after fees, and — verbatim — that it is “impossible to determine the final estimated payment per claimant at this point.” Ten days remain, and every deadline in the case lands on the same day.
Never Heard of Doxim? That's Exactly Why the Settlement Letter Looks Fake. The $5.5 Million Is Real, the $100 Is the Administrator's Own Estimate — and the Cash Is Funded Last
“Is the Doxim data incident settlement mailing legit?” is now a measurable search query, and it deserves a direct answer: yes. The letter comes from a class action over a December 2023 breach at a company most recipients never dealt with directly — a back-office vendor for credit unions. Here is how to verify the mailing in five minutes, what the three benefits actually are, and the funding-order rule buried in the FAQ that decides how far the $100 stretches.
Tomorrow Is the Comcast Deadline Half the Internet Published. The Court-Authorized Site Says September 14 — and the Right to Object Quietly Expired Six Weeks Ago
Forbes said August 14. Roundups still say August 14. The administrator's own FAQ for the $117.5 million Xfinity breach settlement says claims are due Monday, September 14, 2026 — a full month later. Two other deadlines really did pass, on July 1, and almost nobody reported those. Here is what the official notice says, and the claims rate at which the "$50" starts shrinking.
A Sixth MyChart Settlement Just Opened. Its Class Window Reaches Back to September 2016 — and $618,333 Comes Out of $1.765 Million Before Anyone Is Paid
Cone Health agreed to $1,765,000 over tracking technology on its website and MyChart patient portal. The eligibility window runs six years and two months, one of the longest in the hospital-pixel wave, and the claim form asks you to affirm a portal login rather than prove one. Claims close October 5. Epic, which makes MyChart, is again not the defendant.
A Million Banner Health Patients Already Have a Year of Privacy Monitoring Coming, Filed or Not. Only the $20 Needed a Form — and It Closed September 5
Roughly 1,028,000 people were notified in the McCulley settlement over tracking on Banner Health's patient portal. The unusual part is in the FAQ: the monitoring benefit arrives automatically for every class member, while the cash requires a claim. Meanwhile counsel is asking for up to $3.75 million — the equivalent of 187,500 people's payments.
Google's YouTube TV Settlement Pays About $92 — Nine Times a Typical Breach Check. Claims Closed August 30, and the Online Form Would Not Open Without a PIN
The court-authorized site puts each share at approximately $92.26 out of a $7,500,000 non-reversionary fund — an unusually large per-person number for a consumer class action. Three things the roundup posts leave out: the online claim form requires a LoginID and PIN from your notice, anyone who subscribed through Apple's App Store is excluded outright, and no money moves until after the October 15 hearing and any appeals.
Did a One-Way Video Interview for an Illinois Job? HireVue's $3.75 Million Settlement Estimates $150 — and Its Class Window Stayed Open Until Six Weeks Ago
Deyerler v. HireVue covers anyone who completed an interview on HireVue's video platform in Illinois between January 27, 2017 and June 25, 2026. That is a nine-and-a-half-year window that closed this June, not years back — so an interview you did this spring can still count. Claims close October 13, but the deadline to opt out or object is two weeks earlier, on September 28.
Six Data-Breach Settlements Opened in 48 Hours. The One Advertised as "$2,500" Expects to Pay $10 — Its Lawyers Asked for Three Times the Entire No-Proof Cash Pool
Between August 10 and August 11, settlements covering Coleman Professional Services, Albany Gastroenterology, the Anixter Center, Crossroads Trading, Dairy Farmers of America and AIS InfoSource all surfaced at once. Read their official notices side by side and the arithmetic behind every no-proof breach check stops being a mystery. Coleman's own FAQ states the assumption out loud: its $70 estimate holds only if 90 percent of the class never files.
$9.5 Million, $15 a Person, and a PIN You Probably Deleted: Four More Hospital Pixel Settlements Close in September
The August wave of patient-portal settlements is nearly over. Four more are open — Concord Hospital on September 11, Penn Medicine on September 16, Atrium Health on September 28, LifeStance on September 29. The largest of them is capped at $9.5 million and still pays up to $15 a person, and its claim form will not open without a Notice ID and PIN from an email sent months ago. The smallest, at $800,000, asks for no proof of anything.
The '$425 Farmers Settlement' Closed July 24. A Second One, in the Same Missouri Courtroom, Pays $160 Until September 14
Two Do-Not-Call class actions against Farmers Insurance were filed in the same division of the same St. Louis County court and run by the same administrator. The one still being promoted as 'claim up to $425' stopped accepting claims three weeks ago. The one that was actually open caps at $160 — and only for phone numbers that appeared on a list produced in the litigation. A third case, O'Reilly Automotive's $18.8 million text-message settlement, closes September 28 and pays about $22. Update, September 26, 2026: the Heckathorn claim deadline passed on September 14, 2026. Update, September 26, 2026: the Heckathorn claim deadline passed on September 14, 2026.
The Debt Collector That Lost 10 Million LabCorp Patients' Data Went Bankrupt in Weeks. Seven Years Later, LabCorp Is Paying $35 Million — and 'To Date' Is Doing Heavy Lifting
Most of the 10.25 million LabCorp patients caught in the 2018–19 AMCA breach never knowingly dealt with American Medical Collection Agency — a billing collector whose systems intruders roamed for roughly eight months. AMCA's parent filed for bankruptcy within weeks of disclosure, so the litigation moved to the labs that hired it. LabCorp's $35 million settlement took claims until September 3, 2026: up to $5,000 documented, an estimated $50 without paperwork. That window has closed. And the official site quietly notes the settling defendants 'to date' — Quest Diagnostics, with 11.9 million exposed patients, isn't one of them.
Google's $68M Assistant Claims Closed Yesterday — but the Portal Is Still Live This Morning, and That Is Confusing People. What Actually Happens Now
The claim window for the $68 million Google Assistant privacy settlement ran out on August 27, 2026. We re-checked the administrator's site this morning: the deadline was not extended, and the claim form still says payment requires a claim submitted “no later than August 27, 2026.” The pages themselves are still reachable, which is exactly why people are asking whether they can still file. Here is what the settlement documents say happens next — the October 1 approval hearing, why there is still no per-person dollar figure, and the sentence about leftover money worth knowing.
Searching 'MyChart Lawsuit' for Your State Finds Nothing — Epic Isn't the Defendant. Five Portal Settlements Close Within 27 Days, Starting With a Flat $50 on August 14
A wave of state-by-state searches — Ohio, Washington, Illinois, Kentucky — is looking for a single MyChart class action that doesn't exist. MyChart is Epic's software; the lawsuits name the hospitals that allegedly ran tracking pixels on it. What does exist: five separate portal settlements with claim deadlines between August 14 and September 5, none requiring proof of harm.
The Equifax Payout Most People Are Googling Closed in 2024. The $600 One Closed September 1, 2026 — It Covered Roughly 37,000 People Holding a Letter From 2022
Searches for 'Equifax class action payout' are surging on fresh news coverage — but the money most searchers remember, from the 2017 breach, finished paying out years ago. The case that was open when this was written is small, specific, and unusually generous per person: $2.2 million for people Equifax sent a 'Duplicate Reporting Letter' in 2022, up to $600 each, filed with the ID from that letter by September 1. Update, September 26, 2026: that claim window closed on September 1, 2026; the final approval hearing is October 6, 2026.
'The Check Is in the Mail' — Officially, This Time: Wells Fargo's $56.85M CARES Act Checks Must Go Out by August 31, and Nobody Has Named the Amount
The administrator's site now commits to a date: every class member's check from the $56.85 million forbearance settlement mails 'by the end of August 2026.' There is no claim form, no portal, and — conspicuously — no official dollar figure. Who's in, what the pro-rata math suggests, and the one phrase that should make you hang up the phone.
4.38 Million Claims, a $177 Million Fund, Seven Months of Silence: The AT&T Settlement Has No Payout Date — Because It Isn't Approved Yet
Searches for an AT&T settlement payout date keep spiking. The official administrator site, checked August 8, still says the court “has not yet decided whether it will approve the Settlement.” The “approval” headlines people remember are from June 2025 — that was preliminary. Here is what's verified, what each tier pays, and the three gates between the ruling and a check.
Flagstar Was Breached Twice in 11 Months. Now 2.19 Million People Can Claim Up to $25,000 From a $31.5M Fund — Until Tuesday
Angus v. Flagstar covers both 2021 intrusions — the January file-transfer hack and the December network breach. The official FAQ pegs the no-receipts cash payment at an estimated $60 (capped at $599), documented losses at up to $25,000, and adds three years of three-bureau credit monitoring. Claims closed August 11; the money itself waits on an October 1 hearing.
No Hacker Required: Cookies on a Delta Dental Portal Produced a $12.67 Million Settlement — $16.50 a Person, No Proof Needed, 12 Days Left
Feeler v. Wyssta Services isn't a breach case. The claims administrator behind Delta Dental's “Cover Me” member portal allegedly wired its own website with advertising trackers — the same pixel playbook behind the MyChart litigation wave. About 768,000 portal users can claim up to $16.50 with no proof of harm, but only until August 20.
Approved 22 Months Ago, Payment Date 'TBD': The $145M Kia/Hyundai Theft Settlement Is Still Frozen — and the Supreme Court Docket Doesn't Show the Appeal Everyone Blames
Searches for a Kia theft settlement payout date are climbing again. The official answer, verified this week: there isn't one. The administrator's site says payments 'cannot be made until the appeals are resolved' — 22 months after final approval and 15 months after the claim window closed. What is actually blocking the money is murkier than the payout-date sites claim.
There Are Four Different 'Cash App Settlements.' The One 667,000 People Filed For Has No Payout Date — the One Mailing Checks Since June Never Asked for a Claim
'Cash App settlement payout date' searches are spiking again, mostly from people who filed in the $15M data breach case back in 2024. Verified this week: the official site still says distribution is coming 'in the coming months' — a status posted April 9, 2026. Meanwhile the CFPB consent-order settlement has been mailing checks in batches since June 8 with no claim required, and July's $45M state settlement pays consumers nothing at all.
O'Reilly Auto Parts Texted Numbers That Belonged to Someone Else — Now $18.8 Million Is on the Table, but Shopping There Can Get Your Claim Denied
Bryan v. O'Reilly Automotive settles claims over promo texts sent to reassigned phone numbers on the Do-Not-Call Registry. The official FAQ estimates $22.00 per approved claim. The twist: this is one settlement where being a customer hurts — an O'Reilly purchase in the 18 months before the texts can sink your claim. Claims are due September 28.
Thousands Are Googling 'Return to Kroll' to Check If Their Letter Is a Scam. It's the Envelope's Return Address — and the Code Inside Has an Expiration Date
A wave of breach-notice letters about the Unlimited Technology Systems ransomware incident started landing in late July — from a sender most patients have never heard of. Here is why the envelope says 'Kroll,' how to verify every phone number and website in the letter, and what is (and is not) real: there is no settlement and no claim form.
The Equifax Payout Everyone Is Searching For Pays Up to $600 — but Only 37,651 People Got the Letter That Unlocks It
A late-July press wave sent 'equifax class action payout' searches spiking. Most searchers are thinking of the famous 2017 breach settlement — which closed in January 2024. The one that was still claimable was tiny and letter-gated, and its deadline passed on September 1, 2026. And Equifax's own quarterly filing shows $130 million already set aside for the two settlements you cannot claim yet.
A Jury Already Found State Farm Shorted Totaled-Car Payouts in Arkansas. Drivers Have 13 Days to Claim a Share of $15.6 Million — About $489 on Average
Chadwick v. State Farm ended with a settlement fund of $15,583,700 for Arkansas drivers whose total-loss checks were trimmed by a 'typical negotiation adjustment.' Unlike most settlements, this one went to trial first — and unlike automatic payouts, you get nothing unless a claim form is in by August 19.
Wall Street Learned About the CareCloud Hack in March. Patients Got Their Letters in July — 345,000 Affected and Counting
A medical-records company told the SEC about its breach within days. The people whose Social Security numbers, medication lists — and in some cases card security codes — were taken waited four months for a letter. There is no settlement to claim, two lawsuits are pending, and one deadline is real: free identity protection ends December 17.
The $117.5 Million Xfinity Settlement Hits Its Final Court Test — With 40 Days Left on a Deadline Half the Internet Gets Wrong
A Philadelphia judge hears final-approval arguments on August 5. Meanwhile, widely shared coverage still tells 31.6 million breach victims their claim window closed August 14 — the official administrator site says September 14. What you can still claim: about $50 with no paperwork, or up to $10,000 documented.
Tinder Owes 268,000 Californians Money for Charging Over-30s Double. The Payments Are Automatic — Making Sure Yours Arrives Is Not
After eleven years, Candelore v. Tinder is finally approved: $60.5 million for Californians who paid the over-30 price for Tinder Plus or Gold. There is no claim form at all — but the administrator pays you through whatever contact info Tinder has on file, unless you pick your payment method by August 18.
That 'distribution@BCBSsettlement.com' Email Is Real — and It Delivers Only 90% of Your Money
Searches for 'is distribution@bcbssettlement.com legit' are spiking as $1.9 billion rolls out to Blue Cross Blue Shield subscribers. The email is genuine, the press-math average is about $333 — and a court order most people never read explains why 10% of larger payments is missing.
People Are Hunting a '$2,500 MyChart Settlement.' Real MyChart Checks Run $15 to $50 — the $2,500 Goes to One Person Per Case
Searches for 'MyChart settlement $2,500' are surging. We checked the actual court-approved hospital-portal settlements: the class-member checks are $15 to $50, and the only real $2,500 line item is the service award paid to the single named plaintiff. Six genuine claim deadlines do hit between August 14 and October 5.
Hackers Took 6 Million Carnival Guest Records. Carnival Told Investors the Lawsuits 'Will Not Have a Material Impact.'
One deceived employee, 5,995,277 people notified, an extortion crew that leaked what it claims are 8.7 million records — and six consolidated federal lawsuits Carnival's own SEC filing waves off in a single sentence. Here is what is confirmed, what is only alleged, and why there is nothing to claim yet.
J&J's New Talc Deal Is $3.5 Billion Smaller Than the One a Judge Threw Out — and Plaintiffs' Lawyers Took It
$5.5 billion for roughly 76,000 claims, announced five days after a magistrate judge ordered plaintiffs to prove talc caused their cancer or explain why the cases should not be dismissed. Here is the math behind the discount — and why nobody can file a claim yet.
DentaQuest Told Regulators 2.6 Million People Were Breached. The Notice Letters Went Out to More Than 15 Million.
One number went to the Maine Attorney General. A far larger one is showing up in the notification program — and a researcher's analysis of the stolen files points higher still. What is confirmed, what is not, and why there is still nothing to claim.
The Envelope Says 'Kroll.' The Break-In It Is About Was Discovered 274 Days Earlier.
Roughly 428,000 people in just three states are receiving letters from a company they have never heard of, about intruders found on October 19, 2025. Here is who Unlimited Systems is, why the letter is real, and why there is nothing to claim.
The 'Average' Car-Accident Settlement Is Misleading: Half of 60,820 Real Payouts Were Under $5,000
We analyzed 60,820 government payout records. The $38,561 'average' is propped up by a handful of catastrophic cases — the median claimant got a fraction of it. Here is the real ladder, and what actually moves a claim up it.
Wells Fargo Is About to Mail $56.85 Million in Checks — and Most Recipients Expect the Wrong Amount
Final approval is done, and the administrator says checks reach California mailboxes by the end of August. The typical check? Analysts put it at just $100–$150. Here is why the math shrinks — and the one mistake that can cost you yours.
A Company You've Never Heard Of Leaked 5.8 Million Car Buyers' Social Security Numbers. Now It Owes $17.5 Million.
Financed a car since 2020? A vendor called 700Credit probably ran your credit — and lost your SSN. Claims were open until September 22, 2026 — and the letter many people threw away as junk mail was real.
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