Anyone who received a data-breach notice from the Jefferson County Health Center can file for a flat $150 payment with no receipts or other documents, as long as the claim is made by November 16, 2026. The money would come from a $2,250,000 settlement fund that a St. Louis court has approved only on a preliminary basis. The final amounts are not yet set.
Who counts as a class member
The case is J.D., et al. v. Jefferson County Health Center d/b/a Jefferson County Health Department, Case No. 2622-CC00457, in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Missouri. The court preliminarily approved the settlement on September 10, 2026 and certified the class for settlement purposes, according to the settlement administrator’s website, which describes itself as the only authorized website for the case.
The settlement class is anyone who received notice from the health center that personal information may have been compromised in a security incident that occurred between October 31 and November 15, 2022. The definition turns on receiving that notice. It does not turn on where a person lives, so a recipient in another state is inside the class the same as one in Missouri…