Brooks Bankruptcy Class Action: 1,190 Claims in October 16 Fee Motion

The Brooks v. Trans Union fee motion, filed October 16, 2026 as Document 178, is now posted on the official settlement site. It contains the first claim count in the case: “approximately 1,190 claims have been submitted by Settlement Class Members thus far. Importantly, no class member has submitted any objection to any element of the Settlement, including the request for attorneys’ fees and costs, or requested exclusion.” The full background on the case, the class and the claim form is on our TransUnion settlement page; this article covers only what is new in the filing.

The class is about 57,000 people, so 1,190 claims is roughly 2.1% (our calculation). There is a small inconsistency in the filing about the date of that count. The memorandum's footnote gives it “as of the date of this filing,” which is October 16. The supporting declaration from class counsel (paragraph 19) dates the same 1,190 count “as of September 30, 2026” and also gives the claim deadline as September 30. That is wrong: the memorandum and the official site both give October 30, 2026. The settlement administrator's formal report on claims, exclusions and objections will be filed with the final approval motion, which counsel says is due by November 18, 2026.

The settlement terms are the same as before. About 21,000 people in the “No Bankruptcy Group” get $100 automatically, and the filing estimates “approximately $1,000 in addition to their automatic $100 payment” if they file a valid claim. The “Aged Bankruptcy Group” gets money only with a valid claim, estimated at “approximately $350.” The fee memorandum puts that group at about 37,000 people; our earlier reporting used the site's figure of about 36,000. The official site says these estimates “are based upon the typical claims rates in similar cases” and “may be lower or higher.”

The reason they could be higher: claim payments come from a fixed $2,882,900 Claims Fund, shared pro rata. A No Bankruptcy Group claimant gets 3 points and an Aged Bankruptcy Group claimant gets 1, and the agreement sets no per-person cap. If only 1,190 valid claims came in, the fund would average about $2,423 per claimant (our calculation), well above the estimates. But this is not a payout forecast. Claims are still coming in until October 30, not every claim will be valid, and the split depends on how many claimants come from each group. The agreement also has a floor: if fewer than 0.5% of the class files (about 285 people, our calculation), the parties “will meet and confer to agree upon the proper distribution of the Claims Fund.” At 1,190, the claim count is above that line.

What the lawyers are asking for: attorneys' fees of $2,770,000 (one-third of the fund), expenses of $306,854.87 (just under the $308,000 cap), and a $50,000 service award for the named plaintiff. Together that is $3,126,854.87, about 37.6% of the $8,310,000 fund (our calculation). Counsel report 2,124.75 attorney and paralegal hours and a lodestar of $1,416,844.25, so the requested fee is 1.95 times their hourly value. The filing says the largest expenses were “expert work and access to data necessary for class member identification.” Judge Karen Spencer Marston has not ruled on any of it. She will take it up at the final approval hearing.

The court-approved notice went out by email or U.S. Mail with a unique Claim Number and PIN, and the only claim site is BrooksBankruptcyClassAction.com, run by Continental DataLogix. To check a message, don't click its link. Type the address yourself, or call the number on the official site, (888) 279-4003. Be suspicious of any message that points you to a site other than the official one.

Searches for “brooks bankruptcy class action” also turn up the clothing retailer. Brooks Brothers filed for bankruptcy in July 2020 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, as Retail Dive reported on July 8, 2020. That case has nothing to do with this settlement. “Brooks” here is the named plaintiff, and the case is about bankruptcy remarks on TransUnion credit reports. This page will not help with a Brooks Brothers question.