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UFCW Local 7 class action lawsuit is currently open:
The deadline to file with Chimo is December 7, 2026. UFCW Local 7 data breach settlement: a fixed $50 cash payment plus 2 years of credit monitoring for people notified of the December 2024 data incident.
UFCW Local 7 Class Action Lawsuit
On or about December 11, 2024, someone broke into the computer network of United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, the labor union known as UFCW Local 7, which represents members in Colorado and Wyoming. According to the settlement agreement, the union's investigation found that the intruder had access to files holding the personal information of 55,900 people, including names, addresses, driver's license numbers and Social Security numbers. The union began mailing letters to the people affected on September 22, 2025.
Within days, five people sued in state and federal courts in Colorado. They joined one amended complaint, filed on November 14, 2025, in the District Court of Jefferson County, Colorado (Linneman, et al. v. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No. 7, No. 2025CV31569), before Judge Ryan P. Loewer. The lawsuit says the union was negligent and did not do enough to protect the information it collected from its members, and it brings claims for negligence, negligence per se, unjust enrichment and breach of implied contract.
The union denies all of it, and the court never decided who was right. It did refuse to throw the case out: on March 4, 2026, the court denied the union's motion to dismiss and let the whole complaint stand. The two sides then settled at a full-day mediation with retired judge David E. Jones on May 20, 2026, and Judge Loewer granted preliminary approval on September 15, 2026. The lawyers for the class are Leanna A.Loginov of Shamis & Gentile and David Lietz of Milberg.
UFCW Local 7 Class Action Settlement - Uncapped
There is no single settlement fund here. UFCW Local 7 pays each valid claim itself, along with the credit monitoring people sign up for and the settlement administrator's costs. That means one person's payment does not shrink because more people file, and the agreement sets no overall limit on what the union pays out to claimants.
Everything else is paid on top of the claims, not out of them. The lawyers for the class will ask the court for attorneys' fees and costs of up to $345,000, and a service award of $2,500 for each of the five people who brought the case. The union has agreed not to oppose those amounts, and the court can award less. Checks that nobody cashes within 90 days go back to the union, not to a charity.
Staying in the settlement means giving up the right to sue the union over the incident. File with Chimo by December 7, 2026. The court's own claim deadline is December 14, 2026, which is also the last day to opt out or object. The final approval hearing is set for January 13, 2027, at 3:00 p.m., before Judge Loewer in Courtroom 540 of the Jefferson County courthouse in Golden, Colorado, or by video.
Deadline for filing a claim: December 7, 2026
UFCW Local 7 Data Breach Class Action Payout: $50
The Alternative Cash Payment is a fixed $50 per approved claim, and it needs no documents. It is not adjusted pro rata, which would mean every payment moving up or down depending on how many people file, so $50 is what an approved claim receives. Because the union pays each claim directly rather than splitting a fixed pot, the number of people who file does not change it.
The $50 is instead of the other two cash options, not on top of them. People with losses from fraud or identity theft caused by the incident can claim up to $3,000 with third-party proof such as bank or card statements, invoices, phone records or receipts; a note or statement you wrote yourself does not count as proof on its own. Separately, people can claim lost time at $25 an hour for up to three hours ($75), with a description of the time spent. A documented-loss or lost-time claim that is rejected and not fixed is treated as a claim for the $50.
Everyone in the class can also claim two years of one-bureau credit monitoring, with up to $1,000,000 in identity theft insurance, on top of any cash payment. A claim mailed on the paper form is paid by check. Eligible payments are sent within 60 days after the settlement takes effect, which comes after final approval and any appeals, and credit monitoring codes within 30 days.
UFCW Local 7 Data Breach Class Action Eligibility
You are in the class if you are a living person in the United States and your information may have been involved in the UFCW Local 7 data incident of December 11, 2024. In practice, that means the roughly 55,900 people the union wrote to about the incident starting on September 22, 2025. If you received one of those letters, or a settlement notice from CPT Group, the settlement administrator, you are very likely in the class. If you are unsure, the administrator answers at 1-888-261-1463.
Some people are left out: the union's directors and officers, government entities, the judge on the case, the judge's immediate family and court staff, and anyone who opts out by December 14, 2026. Someone who opts out cannot also file a claim.
The claim form asks for your name, mailing address, phone number and email address, and the CPT ID printed on the notice mailed to you. To claim the $50 payment, you tick one box, and you can tick another for credit monitoring. You sign the form under penalty of perjury, a legal promise that what you wrote is true and that you are eligible. The administrator reviews every claim, can ask for more information, and can reject a claim it finds fraudulent, and filing false claims on a large scale can be prosecuted. Only claim if it is true.
UFCW Local 7 Data Breach Class Action Claim Form
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FAQ
It settles a lawsuit over a December 2024 break-in to the computer network of UFCW Local 7, a labor union for workers in Colorado and Wyoming. The union denies wrongdoing and agreed to pay valid claims, credit monitoring and costs.
Living people in the United States whose information may have been involved in the incident, which in practice means the roughly 55,900 people the union wrote to starting in September 2025. Directors, officers, the judge and court staff, and anyone who opted out are left out.
The Alternative Cash Payment is a fixed $50, with no documents needed, and it does not shrink if more people file. People with documented losses caused by the incident can claim up to $3,000 instead, or up to $75 for time spent.
Not for the $50 Alternative Cash Payment. You only need third-party proof, such as statements, invoices or receipts, if you claim documented losses of up to $3,000, and a statement you wrote yourself does not count on its own.
According to the settlement agreement, the files the intruder could reach held names, addresses, driver's license numbers and Social Security numbers that the union had collected from its members.
File with Chimo by December 7, 2026, so there is time to mail your claim. The court's deadline for claims is December 14, 2026, which is also the last day to opt out of the settlement or object to it.
Yes. Everyone in the class can claim two years of one-bureau credit monitoring with up to $1,000,000 in identity theft insurance, in addition to a cash payment. You have to claim it on the form to get it.
Eligible payments are sent within 60 days after the settlement takes effect. That happens after the court grants final approval, at a hearing set for January 13, 2027, and after any appeals are resolved.
No. The union pays attorneys' fees and costs of up to $345,000, and the service awards, separately from the claims. Each approved claim is paid in full, so the fees do not come out of anyone's $50.
You get no cash payment and no credit monitoring, because both have to be claimed. You also give up the right to sue the union over the incident, because everyone who stays in the class is bound by the settlement.