Laboratory Services Cooperative agreed a $6.1 million settlement resolving litigation over an October 2024 data breach affecting up to 1.6 million people.
Three Dollars And Eighty-One Cents
That is the gross per-capita figure before fees, costs and the claims process — and it is for laboratory data, which is to say medical information.
This desk filed at 25-1010 that medical exposure is permanent in a way financial exposure is not: there is no equivalent of a credit freeze for a leaked diagnosis, and no monitoring product addresses it. The remedy priced at $3.81 is for a harm the corpus has argued cannot be remediated at any price.
The Relationship Between Fund Size And Class Size Is Inverse
Compare the three settlements in this section. Outcomes One at 25-0703: 257,500 people, ~$6.60 each. This one: 1.6 million people, ~$3.81 each.
Larger breaches do not produce proportionally larger funds. Settlement size is bounded by what a defendant can pay and what the litigation is worth, not by how many people were affected — so per-capita recovery falls as the class grows.
The individuals in the largest incidents in this database therefore have the weakest claim on this mechanism, which is precisely the wrong direction.
And Nobody In The Class Chose The Defendant
A laboratory services cooperative is a supplier to clinics. Its data subjects are patients of its customers — the concentration structure at 25-0801 and 25-0814.
They had no relationship with the defendant, no ability to evaluate it, and will receive a claim form from an administrator naming a company they have never heard of. The corpus records low claims rates in consumer settlements; this is one reason for them.
Compiled from published settlement reporting, listed below. Per-capita figures are our arithmetic on the reported fund and class size, before fees and costs. Corrections: corrections@forensicpost.com.
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