How we verify each listing
Listings come from two kinds of source, and each listing says which. Some we checked ourselves against an official or government source. The rest come from SettleSignal's open dataset, which we have not independently re-checked. Filing is always free on the official site.
What gets listed
- A court-supervised class action settlement, or a government refund program, with an official claim process.
- A claim deadline in the future and a link to an official claim or settlement site. A listing with a passed deadline is removed on the next daily refresh and its page says so if opened after the date.
- Consumer-relevant: something an ordinary person may have bought or used. Securities, employment and retirement-plan settlements and mass-arbitration or law-firm sign-up pages are left out.
Where the facts come from
- The official settlement site. We read the page for the deadline, who qualifies, the proof needed and the payout, exactly as the notice states them.
- The settlement administrator's own case page. Some official sites put up a bot challenge that blocks automated readers. We do not try to get around it. For those, the deadline comes from the administrator's public case page, and the listing says so. Who qualifies, proof and payout are then shown as "see the official site" rather than guessed.
- Government refund programs such as the FTC's, which are public records.
- SettleSignal's open data. SettleSignal (settlesignal.com) publishes a settlement dataset under CC BY 4.0. We take the records marked "Open for claims" that have a future claim deadline and an official claim or settlement link, and we changed the data: we filtered and reformatted it. Deadlines, proof rules and payout wording on these listings are SettleSignal's, and each listing links to SettleSignal's own record and shows the date SettleSignal last verified it and its verification status. Some of those records are flagged by SettleSignal itself for a re-check. Confirm the deadline on the official site before you rely on it.
Apart from SettleSignal, whose open-data licence we rely on, we do not use settlement directories or aggregator sites as a data source. Their terms forbid copying. Our own descriptions are written from the facts; we do not copy notices.
How each listing is kept honest
- Each day our refresh loads the page (or the SettleSignal feed) again, respecting that site's robots.txt and rate limits.
- Listings we verified ourselves stay only if the page loads and still shows the deadline we recorded. SettleSignal listings stay only while SettleSignal still lists them as open with a future deadline. If SettleSignal's feed cannot be fetched or shrinks sharply, we keep the last good listings, mark them as stale on the site, and flag the failure for us to fix.
- Payouts are labeled "as stated in the official notice" and shown in the source's words. If a source states none, we leave it blank. Proof requirements marked unknown or optional are shown as unknown or optional, never as "no proof". Payout figures are totals or maximums, not what any one person will get.
What verified does not mean
It means the settlement is listed as open for claims on the date shown and links to what its source gives as the claim process. It does not mean you qualify or will be paid. Read the official eligibility rules and only file if they apply to you. ClaimFinder is not a law firm, court or settlement administrator.
Listings and how each was verified
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Settlement data from SettleSignal (settlesignal.com), CC BY 4.0. We changed the data: we filtered and reformatted it.
Found a mistake? Email contact@greyridgesignals.ai and we will check it the same day.