The Planned Parenthood Lab Breach Settlement Says “Up to $6,000” — but 1.43 Million People Share a $6.1 Million Fund, Lawyers Asked for $1.83 Million on September 21, and Claims Are Due November 24, 2026

If you had lab work done through a Planned Parenthood health center served by Laboratory Services Cooperative, or you paid for someone else’s tests, or you worked for LSC, you are probably in this laboratory services cooperative data breach settlement — and you have to file a claim to get anything. The notice is explicit: “If you were employed by LSC or received or paid for lab tests ordered by a Planned Parenthood health center on or before October 27, 2024, you may be a member of the group of people affected.” The formal class is “All U.S. residents whose Personal Information was potentially compromised as a result of the Data Incident which Defendant became aware of on or about October 27, 2024.” Doing nothing means no money and no right to sue LSC separately.

The news this month is the first fee filing. On September 21, 2026 (Dkt. 52) class counsel Tousley Brain Stephens and Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy asked Judge Rothstein for $1,830,000 in attorneys’ fees — “which amounts to 30% of the fund”, above the Ninth Circuit’s 25-percent starting benchmark that the motion itself cites — plus $20,355.12 in costs and $2,500 service awards for each of the two named plaintiffs. The same filing gives the first official size of the class: “approximately 1,430,000 individuals.” It also reports that, so far, “the Settlement has been well received, with no requests for exclusion and no objections.” Counsel put their time at $1,032,673.50 in lodestar, so the request is a multiplier of 1.77. The court decides the fee at the January 4, 2027 hearing.

There are three benefits, and you can claim all of them on one form. Documented losses: up to $5,000 per person for unreimbursed costs “reasonably incurred as a result of the Data Incident” — fraud or identity-theft losses, professional fees, credit freezes, credit monitoring bought after the incident, and smaller items such as postage and mileage. You need receipts or similar proof; handwritten, self-prepared receipts alone are not enough. The claim form’s own example is a $40 charge for freezing credit reports. Cash payment: a pro rata share “of up to $1,000” for anyone in the class, no proof required. Monitoring: two years of Medical Shield Complete by CyEx, with at least one-bureau credit monitoring and $1 million in identity theft protection.

Nobody should expect $6,000 or even $1,000. The cash payment is what is left after documented-loss claims, monitoring, administration, fees and service awards, split evenly among claimants. Our arithmetic, using the amounts requested: $6,100,000 minus $1,830,000 in fees, $20,355.12 in costs and $5,000 in service awards leaves about $4.24 million before administration costs and claims. Spread over all 1,430,000 class members that would be about $2.97 each; if 5% of the class files (71,500 people) it is roughly $59 each, before administration, monitoring and documented-loss payouts are taken out. The real figure depends on how many people claim, and neither the administrator nor counsel has published a claims count or an estimate.

As of October 11, 2026, no money has been paid. Payments go out “within thirty (30) days after the Effective Date,” which is at least thirty days after a final approval order. If the court approves the deal on January 4, 2027 and nobody appeals, the agreement’s payment deadline would fall around March 5, 2027, by our count (payments can go out earlier, once the Effective Date has passed); an appeal or a later approval order would push it back. You choose PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or a mailed check on the claim form. Checks are void after 90 days, with 30 more days to ask for a reissue. Uncashed money is redistributed if the second payment would be at least $5.00; anything left is proposed to go to the National Health Law Program and/or the Alliance for Women’s Health & Prevention.

File a claim by November 24, 2026 — online at LSCDataSettlement.com, or on the paper form mailed so it is postmarked by that date to LSC Data Incident Settlement Administrator, 1650 Arch Street, Suite 2210, Philadelphia, PA 19103. The form asks whether you worked for LSC, whether you visited a Planned Parenthood health center and received lab testing, or whether you paid for a patient’s testing, and then for the patient’s name, date of birth and the city and state of the health center visited. Have those ready; check the monitoring box and give an email address if you want the CyEx service.

Most people in this class will not get a letter. The settlement agreement sends mailed notice only to LSC employees; patients are reached through “Targeted Media Notice” — online and social-media ads — and notices posted in participating Planned Parenthood health centers or on their websites. If you remember lab work at a Planned Parenthood clinic, do not wait for mail. The agreement also lets counsel order a reminder ad campaign 30 days before the deadline if the claims rate is “less than 5% of the Settlement Class 45 days prior to the Claims Deadline” — by our count that check date was October 10, 2026, and the reminder would run around October 25, 2026.

Opt out or object by October 26, 2026, by mail postmarked by that date to the administrator at P.O. Box 58220, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (marked “Exclusion Requests” or “Objections”). Opting out is the only way to keep a separate claim against LSC; you then get nothing from this settlement. An objection must include your contact details, your grounds, and a list of class settlements you objected to in the previous five years. You can object and still file a claim. The final approval hearing is January 4, 2027 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific, by Zoom; you do not need to attend.

Is the data breach settlement legit? Yes. LSCDataSettlement.com describes itself as “the official Settlement Website for the In re Laboratory Services Cooperative Data Breach Litigation, authorized by the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington,” and Judge Rothstein’s July 27, 2026 order approved Angeion Group, LLC as the administrator. The settlement documents on the site carry the court’s file stamp for Case No. 2:25-cv-00685-BJR. The real contact points are the toll-free number 1-844-933-4334, info@LSCDataSettlement.com, and the Philadelphia addresses above.

Two things can cause confusion. First, LSC’s own April 2025 breach notice offered CyEx monitoring through a separate call center, 1-855-549-2662, with an enrollment deadline of July 14, 2025; that was the company’s offer, not this settlement, and the settlement’s two years of monitoring must be requested on the claim form. Second, the claim form asks for a payment account. Give that only on the official site or the paper form — the administrator does not need your Social Security number, a bank password or an upfront fee to process a claim, and none of those appear on the claim form.

LSC is a 501(c)(3) and 501(e) nonprofit based in Washington that provides lab testing to certain Planned Parenthood member affiliates. According to the settlement agreement, it “identified suspicious activity on its network” on October 27, 2024 and found that patient and worker files “may have been accessed and exfiltrated.” Its breach notice says it received the first results of its data review in February 2025 and went public on April 10, 2025. The data differs by person but, per the agreement, can include names, dates of birth, contact details, Social Security numbers, driver’s license, passport and student ID numbers, medical and treatment information, health insurance information, and billing and payment data; the breach notice adds bank account and payment card details to the billing category. Eight class actions followed from April 16, 2025 and were consolidated on May 29, 2025. A December 10, 2025 mediation failed, talks continued, and the parties settled in February 2026. LSC denies wrongdoing; the court has not ruled on the merits.

The release is broad: it covers LSC and the Planned Parenthood member affiliates that took part in the notice program, so staying in the class ends claims against those clinics over this incident too. This settlement covers only the LSC incident. If your question is about a different breach — TransUnion, a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan or another lab — it does not help you; check the breach letter you received for the company named in it and look for that company’s own case.