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.

The court-authorised website is LAPsettlement.com, administered by Apex Class Action LLC. The notice on it is short on drama and precise on terms. The lawsuit “alleges that Vesync made false or misleading ‘True HEPA,’ ‘HEPA,’ and/or ‘H13’ claims about Levoit-branded Core and EverestAir air purifiers and/or replacement filters sold in the United States between August 29, 2019 and August 4, 2023.” Vesync “unequivocally denies all allegations,” and the court has not decided who is right. The Kings County case was filed to carry the settlement: under the agreement, the three earlier federal suits — filed in August 2023 and November 2024 — were to be discontinued or dismissed, and the four named plaintiffs are Devika Sen, Daniel Tepper, Rick Chen and Jordan Menter.

The benefit is one number: “Settlement Class Members who submit a valid Claim are eligible to receive a $10.00 USD digital payment.” It goes out “using the email address and/or mobile phone number you provide on your Claim Form” — no cheques. The cap is the second number: “The total amount available for Settlement Awards is capped at $15,000,000. If the total value of valid Claims exceeds this amount, the Settlement Awards will be reduced on a proportional basis.” At $10 a claim, that is room for 1.5 million valid claims before anyone's payment shrinks.

What is unusual is what stays outside the cap. Question 11 of the notice: class counsel will ask for fees and costs “not to exceed $5,244,500. If approved, these amounts will be paid separately by Vesync and will not reduce Settlement Awards to Settlement Class Members.” The service awards — “a combined $11,500” for the four class representatives — are “also … paid separately by Vesync.” The settlement agreement adds that notice and administration costs “shall be paid by Defendant.” In most consumer settlements the fee comes out of the fund first; here the $15 million is for claimants only.

The class notice defines membership in one sentence: “You are a Settlement Class Member if you purchased a Levoit-branded Core or EverestAir air purifier and/or replacement filter with ‘True HEPA,’ ‘HEPA,’ and/or ‘H13’ language in the United States between August 29, 2019 and August 4, 2023.” Read on its own, that includes someone who ordered from Levoit's or Vesync's own website or app.

The settlement agreement — the plaintiffs signed in late March 2026, Vesync on April 22 — posted on the site's Case Documents page, says otherwise. Its definition of the Settlement Class lists the usual exclusions — government entities, counsel, Vesync's own officers and employees, the judge and mediators — and then this: “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.” The parties will ask the court “in the Final Approval Order to deem the class definition in the Action to conform to this definition.”

The same document explains why the omission may matter less in practice than it reads. Under the notice plan, “Using any available records of Amazon, the Settlement Administrator shall send the Settlement Class by email a link to the Settlement Website, the Class Notice, and the Claim Form. Defendant represents that substantial majority of the sales during the Class Period were through Amazon.com such that nearly all of Settlement Class Members can be identified and provided with direct notice.” Consistent with that, the website has two claim doors: “Submit a Claim,” which asks for an APEX ID and PIN from the email invitation, and “File a Claim Without an Email Invitation” for everyone else. If you bought on Amazon and got no email, the second door is yours. If you bought on Vesync's or Levoit's own site, the agreement says you are not in the class at all — and the notice does not tell you so.

There is no receipt-free option on the website. Both claim pages carry the same sentence: “For a Claim Form to be valid, you must provide evidence of purchase showing the original date of purchase, your email, full name, address, signature, and election of payment method.” The public claim form is titled, in full, “Vesync – Claim Form (Proof of Purchase Required).” Worth knowing: neither the class notice nor the settlement agreement mentions receipts — the agreement's own claim-form clause asks only for a name, an email address, a mailing address and an e-signature under penalty of perjury. The receipt rule lives on the claim pages. Compare the Bestway pool settlement open at the same time, which pays $40 to anyone without a receipt: here the ten dollars is conditional on paper.

The class period opens on August 29, 2019 — seven years before the deadline. The claim pages do not publish a list of accepted documents; they ask for evidence “showing the original date of purchase,” and an order record with that date on it is the obvious thing to look for. Given that the agreement itself describes Amazon as the channel for the substantial majority of sales, an Amazon order history is where most claimants will find it. Filters count as well as purifiers: the class covers “air purifier and/or replacement filter,” so a replacement-filter order inside the window qualifies even if the purifier was bought before it.

Every deadline is November 3, 2026. Claims are submitted online at LAPsettlement.com by that date. A request for exclusion must be mailed and postmarked by it, to Vesync Air Purifier Settlement Exclusions, c/o Apex Class Action LLC, PO Box 54668, Irvine, CA 92619, with the exact statement the notice prescribes; “You cannot exclude yourself by telephone or by email.” An objection must be postmarked by the same date to the same PO Box — and also filed with the Court Clerk at Courtroom 541, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn — and it must include, among other things, “a list of any objections you or your lawyer have filed to class action settlements in the last ten years.” Anyone who wants to speak at the hearing has to say so in the written objection.

The Fairness Hearing is set for February 17, 2027 at 11:00 a.m. ET, by video conference, before Judge Katherine Levine at the Kings County Supreme Court, 360 Adams Street, Brooklyn, Courtroom 541 — subject to change, with any change posted on the settlement website. On timing, the notice is candid: “If the Court approves the Settlement, there may still be appeals. Resolving any appeals can take time; potentially more than one year. You will not receive a Settlement Award until the Settlement becomes final and any appeals are resolved.”

Class counsel are Bursor & Fisher, P.A.; Sinderbrand Law Group, P.C.; Migliaccio & Rathod LLP; Hecht Partners LLP; and Taus, Cebulash & Landau, LLP. The administrator's toll-free line is 1 (800) 837-2979. Filing is free, and nobody legitimate will ask for a fee to do it for you.