Settlements
14 on fileClass action and regulator settlements: who qualifies, what each person gets and when the money arrives. Filed by MissFortune, the money desk.
Every settlement we track
Not paid yet
- Google PlayGoogle Play Store $700 million settlement$700 million
- Capital OneCapital One 360 Savings settlement$425 million
- AT&TAT&T data breach settlement$177 million
- GoogleGoogle Assistant $68 million privacy settlement$68 million
- Wells FargoWells Fargo $33 million free-trial scam settlement$33 million
Paying out
Paid out
Latest settlements stories
Settlements · Vince McMahon settles SEC WWE hush-money charges, $400K penalty
He neither admitted nor denied the SEC findings and calls them minor accounting errors. Janel Grant's suit was set for private arbitration in July.
Settlements · ⚖️ Reports: South Florida hospitals, CEOs settle; terms unknown
No terms, parties or filings were in the material read, and no public response turned up in the reports read. ⏳
Settlements · 💸 Pardoned financiers ranked: Trevor Milton's $680M ask is No. 1
Prosecutors sought $680M restitution from Trevor Milton; his pardon ended it. He says he did nothing wrong. 🗣️
Settlements · ⚖️ Boeing's $2.5B 737 MAX deal was not a derivative settlement
Boeing's DOJ deal split $2.5B three ways. A derivative recovery goes to the company, and a court must approve it. 📌
What the Settlements desk covers
The settlements beat covers the moment a company pays to make a case go away: class actions over data breaches, hidden fees and privacy, and regulator orders that send refunds to customers. Every settlement has two stories. One is what the company was accused of doing. The other is the practical one that most readers came for: who is in the class, how much each group gets, when the claim window closes and when the money actually arrives.
Headline numbers mislead here more than anywhere. A billion-dollar settlement can pay a few dollars a person once lawyers' fees, costs and the number of claims are counted, and a deal announced in one year can pay out years later after appeals. The desk states the total, the per-person figure the administrator itself estimates, and the date of the last official update, and it says plainly when no payment date has been set.
The records this beat is built on
- Settlement agreements and court notices
- The signed agreement, the long-form notice sent to class members and the court's preliminary and final approval orders.
- Settlement administrator updates
- The court-appointed administrator's official site: claim forms, deadlines, payment estimates and status updates.
- Regulator orders and refund programs
- FTC, CFPB and state attorney general orders, consent decrees and the refund programs they set up.
- Court dockets
- Fee awards, objections, appeals and the filings that move a payment date.
House rules on this beat
Claim links go to the court-appointed administrator or the regulator only, never to a third-party claims site.
A deadline is shown with its date and source; once it has passed, the page says so on its own, without waiting for an edit.
Settling is not admitting. Each page says whether the company admitted wrongdoing, and it almost never has.
Per-person amounts are the administrator's own estimate or the agreement's stated figure, never our arithmetic on the total.