Safe Fleet Holdings and Clarience Technologies have agreed to a settlement that pays $50 with no proof, or up to $2,500 for documented losses, to people whose information was exposed in an April 2024 data incident. Claims are due December 2. A Missouri court holds the final approval hearing on November 2, the same day the window to opt out or object closes.
Files taken at a fleet-safety company in April 2024
Safe Fleet describes itself as a vehicle and fleet safety management company. Court documents cited by ClassAction.org place the incident on or around April 13, 2024. The plaintiffs in Ferry v. Safe Fleet Holdings, filed November 14, 2025 in Missouri, allege that the companies did not keep reasonable cybersecurity safeguards in place.
The data that may have been taken is long. It includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s license and state ID numbers, passport numbers, taxpayer IDs, financial account and payment card information, usernames with passwords, health insurance details and medical information. Few people can say with confidence which of those were in the files.
The class is U.S. residents whose information may have been affected, including everyone who received a breach notice. Court documents state that 7,478 people have been sent notice of the settlement, which makes this a small class. The court granted preliminary approval on July 29, 2026.
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Two payment options, and neither shrinks
A class member can take $50 with no documentation, or reimbursement of up to $2,500 for out-of-pocket losses backed by proof. Only one cash option can be claimed. The losses must fall between April 13, 2024 and December 2, 2026, and ClassAction.org says they can include identity theft or fraud, credit reports or monitoring, credit freezes and professional fees.
OpenClassActions’s summary of the agreement says there is no aggregate fund and that each valid claim is paid its stated amount with no pro rata reduction. The defendants pay attorneys’ fees, service awards and administration costs separately. That differs from settlements where a fixed pot is split among whoever files.
A little arithmetic shows how small the pot is. If every one of the 7,478 people sent notice took the $50, flat payments would total $373,900. The fee and cost request of $250,000 is about two-thirds of that maximum flat payout.
Class counsel will ask for $250,000 in fees and litigation costs and $2,000 for each class representative, and the court may award less. Because the defendants pay those amounts apart from the claims, a larger fee request does not lower the $50.
The loss window is unusually long. It starts on the April 2024 incident date, which means a credit freeze fee, a replacement card or a credit report bought more than two years ago can count if the receipt survives. Self-reported memory is not enough for the $2,500 route, since proof such as bank statements or receipts is required.
Monitoring that waits for the judge
Every class member is offered two years of CyEx Financial Shield Complete, which the summary says includes $1 million in financial fraud insurance. The monitoring starts only after the court gives final approval, so it does not begin before the November 2 hearing at the earliest.
Online filing requires the Login ID and PIN printed on the notice, according to the summary. A paper claim treats the Login ID as optional. The settlement website takes the online form and offers a printable one, and says the only way to receive anything is a timely, valid claim form.
The administrator, Simpluris, answers at (855) 256-5304 and by email at info@SafeFleetDataSettlement.com. The summary notes that the notice and the paper claim form disagree on whether a mailed claim must be postmarked or received by December 2, so filing online or mailing early avoids the question.
November 2 is the opt-out cutoff and the hearing
The final approval hearing is November 2 at 10:30 a.m., and the opt-out and objection deadline falls the same day. The settlement site gives the hearing time without a time zone, and the summary lists it as Central. The date can move, so the site is the place to confirm it.
Preliminary approval came July 29, 2026, so the schedule from that order to the hearing runs about three months. The online form asks for the Login ID and PIN printed on the notice.
The claim window outlasts the hearing by a month. Even if the judge approves the deal on November 2, claims still come in until December 2. Payments follow final approval and the resolution of any appeals, and no payment date has been announced.
The choice for a person holding the notice is between a sure $50 and a documented number. A few receipts for freezes, replacement cards or fraud charges can pass $50 quickly, which is the case for gathering them before deciding.
Anyone who received the notice has one date to keep in mind. The hearing may be November 2, but the claim is due December 2, and a form that misses it pays neither the $50 nor the reimbursement.
Safe Fleet notice with a Login ID and PIN on it?
A form that reaches the administrator after December 2 gets neither the $50 nor the reimbursement, and the notice and the paper form disagree on whether a postmark or arrival counts. Reimbursement up to $2,500 depends on receipts that can reach back to April 2024.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice, which keeps the November 2 hearing and opt-out day apart from the December 2 claim day, plus a claim log and payment tracker. Part 5, Proof: Claiming When the Receipts Are Gone, covers how to document a loss when the paper is thin.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
