Avis Class Action Lawsuit
Avis data breach settlement: a $1,025,000 fund for about 299,006 people whose information was exposed in August 2024. Claims are closed.
What happens next with the Avis settlement
The claim deadline passed on June 19, 2026. New claims for this settlement are no longer being accepted.
The court held its approval hearing on July 28, 2026. That was the final approval hearing, where a judge decides whether to approve the settlement. Nothing is paid out until that approval is final.
Payments come after approval, and after any appeals. Anyone who objected to the settlement can ask a higher court to look at it again — an appeal — and that has to finish first. Eligible payments are sent once approval is final, and the stretch from a claim deadline to money in hand often runs a year or more. It varies from one settlement to the next.
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Avis Class Action Lawsuit
Avis customers sued the company after a data breach exposed their information in August 2024. The lawsuit says that between about August 3 and August 6, 2024, customers' names, driver's license information, credit card numbers and expiration dates, dates of birth and phone numbers were taken from Avis's systems. According to the complaint, Avis discovered the incident on August 5, 2024, sent notice letters dated September 4, 2024, and reported it to the Maine and California attorneys general on September 5, 2024. Its report to Maine put the number of people affected at about 299,006.
The complaint also says Avis's report to Maine described the breach as related to "insider wrongdoing," without explaining further. The lawsuit claims Avis failed to protect the information, in 13 counts including negligence, breach of implied contract, unjust enrichment, the California Consumer Privacy Act and the consumer protection laws of Florida, Illinois and New Jersey. Avis denies any wrongdoing, and the court did not decide who was right.
Ten customers, one each from Florida, Texas, Minnesota, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Illinois, Tennessee and Kansas and two from California, filed the consolidated complaint on December 20, 2024, as In re: Avis Rent A Car System, LLC Security Incident Litigation, No. 2:24-cv-09243, in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Class counsel, the lawyers the court appointed to represent the class, are Emery Reddy, Edelson Lechtzin, Lynch Carpenter and Siri & Glimstad. The court granted final approval on July 28, 2026.
Avis Class Action Settlement - $1,025,000
Avis agreed to a $1,025,000 non-reversionary settlement fund, meaning none of it goes back to Avis. Everything is paid from that fund: payments to class members, the cost of notice and claims administration by Angeion Group, attorneys' fees and costs, and service awards. Class counsel said they would ask for fees of up to 33.33% of the fund plus up to $30,000 in costs, and each of the 10 customers who brought the case could ask for a service award of up to $2,500.
The class is every U.S. resident whose private information was compromised in the incident Avis experienced between August 3 and August 6, 2024. Avis's directors and officers, the judge and court staff, and anyone a court finds guilty of causing or helping cause the incident are excluded. Avis denies any wrongdoing, and the court did not decide who was right.
The claim deadline was June 21, 2026, and the deadline to opt out or object was May 22, 2026. The court granted final approval on July 28, 2026. New claims can no longer be filed.
Claims closed: June 19, 2026
Customer Data Class Action Payout: Up to $5,000
Class members could claim two kinds of payment, and could claim both. The first reimbursed documented out-of-pocket losses up to $5,000 per person. A loss had to be an actual, unreimbursed monetary loss, more likely than not caused by the incident, incurred between August 3, 2024, and the claim deadline, and the claimant had to have tried to avoid it or get it reimbursed, including through any credit monitoring or identity theft insurance they had. Receipts or statements were required; self-prepared documents such as handwritten receipts were not enough on their own. If valid loss claims added up to too much, these payments could be reduced in proportion.
The second is a pro rata cash payment, meaning a share of whatever is left in the fund after loss reimbursements, administration costs, fees and service awards are paid. Anyone in the class could claim it, with or without losses, and anyone who claimed a loss was counted in for it automatically. The settlement does not set its size: it depends on how many of the roughly 299,006 people in the class filed a claim.
Claimants chose PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, a paper check or direct deposit. Eligible payments are sent after the settlement becomes final and any appeals are resolved. The claims administrator, Angeion Group, answers questions at (888) 818-4234.
Customer Data Class Action Eligibility
People were in the Avis settlement if they were U.S. residents whose private information was compromised in the security incident Avis experienced between August 3 and August 6, 2024. Avis's report to the Maine attorney general put the number at about 299,006 people, and notice letters were dated on or about September 4, 2024. The information involved was names together with driver's license information, credit card numbers and expiration dates, dates of birth or phone numbers.
The claim form asked for a name, mailing address and phone number, with email optional, and the settlement class member ID from the mailed notice, or the last four digits of a Social Security number for anyone who did not get one. Claimants checked a box certifying that their information was compromised in the incident, could list out-of-pocket losses with supporting documents, chose a payment method, and signed a statement swearing that the information was true and correct. Claim forms were due June 21, 2026.
FAQ
According to the complaint, Avis's September 5, 2024, breach report to the Maine attorney general said the incident was related to "insider wrongdoing," and Avis did not explain the statement further. The settlement documents do not say who was responsible; they exclude from the class anyone a court finds guilty of causing or helping cause the incident.
Claimants did not need losses to take part. Anyone in the class could check Section IV of the claim form to ask for a share of the pro rata cash payment, the money left in the fund after other costs are paid, with no proof of loss beyond class membership. Anyone who claimed a loss was counted in for it automatically.
The settlement does not set a figure. The fund is $1,025,000. Out of it come loss reimbursements, notice and administration costs, attorneys' fees of up to 33.33% of the fund, up to $30,000 in costs and up to $25,000 in service awards. Whatever is left is divided pro rata among eligible class members who claimed it. With about 299,006 people in the class, the share depends on how many filed.
Eligible class members could receive up to $5,000 each for actual, unreimbursed monetary losses more likely than not caused by the breach — provided the loss occurred between August 3, 2024, and the claim deadline, and the claimant first exhausted any credit monitoring or identity theft insurance available to them. Self-prepared receipts alone didn't qualify.
Claimants chose from PayPal, Venmo, Zelle, paper check, or ACH direct deposit (the ACH option required visiting the settlement website separately). Payments are made to eligible claimants after the effective date, which follows final approval and any appeals.
Class counsel, Emery Reddy, Edelson Lechtzin, Lynch Carpenter and Siri & Glimstad, said they would ask for attorneys' fees of up to 33.33% of the $1,025,000 settlement fund, plus up to $30,000 in unreimbursed costs, all paid from the fund. The court decides the amount and can award less.
Each of the 10 named plaintiffs (Brooke Pestano, Jason Shay, Chase Schachenman, Jason Bundrick, Bill D. Thomas, Tanisorn Tatiyaratana, Michael Beauchane, Joe Lopez, Katrina Robertson, and Brian Harris) requested a service award of up to $2,500 for representing the class, up to $25,000 in total.
The named plaintiffs are the customers who sue on behalf of everyone else in the class, in their own names. The complaint proposed a nationwide class plus subclasses for residents of California, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Minnesota, South Carolina, Alabama, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Kansas, so it could bring claims under those states' own laws. The 10 customers who brought it live in nine states, two of them in California. The settlement class is simply every U.S. resident whose information was compromised.
Sources
These are the court's own records for this case. They are hosted here unchanged, so you can check anything on this page against the documents themselves.
- Avis Data Breach Class Action Complaint (PDF) Complaint · Filed September 18, 2024 · United States District Court for the District of New Jersey · Case 2:24-cv-09243-JXN-MAH
The full case file is on the court docket: view the docket.