Florida renters who paid eviction attorney fees to Progress Residential are set to receive 75 percent of those fees back under a class action settlement, and there is no claim form to file. The deal resolves Johnsten v. Progress Residential, case 2024-CA-001692 in the Circuit Court of the Eighteenth Judicial Circuit in Seminole County, Florida.
Three groups, three outcomes
The settlement splits affected renters into three classes, according to the settlement summary. The paid class has 476 members and gets back 75 percent of the eviction attorneys’ fees it paid. A balance class of 773 members gets 30 percent. A third group, the attempted-collection class of 1,754 members, gets no cash but is released from claims Progress has or could have brought related to the lawsuit.
The class covers charges from August 27, 2020 through August 26, 2024. Because members are identified from Progress Residential’s own records, the settlement summary says no claim form is needed…