Residents of senior living communities run by Kisco Senior Living have a new claims route for a data breach. Anyone Kisco notified in writing about the incident has until January 19, 2027 to file. California residents who were living in the state at the time can collect a flat $250 statutory payment if the claim is approved.
A $1.8 million fund that fees and costs come out of
The whole settlement is a $1,800,000 fund, and it has to cover more than claim checks. According to the settlement website run by CPT Group, the fund also pays for notice, administration, service awards and attorneys’ fees and expenses.
Class counsel can ask the court for up to $600,000 in fees plus up to $50,000 in expenses. Service awards to the class representatives run up to $5,000 each. Subtract the fees and expenses alone and no more than about $1.15 million is left for claimants, notice and administration.
That arithmetic matters because claims are not paid in full automatically. The site says payments can be reduced pro rata if the approved claims add up to more than the fund can bear. A $250 California payment is a set amount in the settlement, but it sits inside the same limited pot.
Who the notification letter makes a class member
The class is defined as all individual U.S. residents to whom Kisco sent written notification of its June 2023 data incident. The test is simple. A letter from Kisco about the breach puts the recipient in the class, wherever in the country the recipient lives.
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The case is Gois v. Kisco Senior Living, LLC, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California as No. 24-cv-751-BJC-AHG. Kisco is a senior living operator, and the notice reached the people it chose to notify about the 2023 incident.
Claim Depot, a settlement tracker, lists the same case and describes the benefits in more detail than the homepage does. Readers can compare its summary with the administrator’s own pages before filing.
The notification letter is the practical proof of membership. Anyone who cannot find the letter can call CPT Group at the number the site lists and ask how to confirm inclusion before the claim deadline.
The $250 California payment and the other benefits
The $250 payment goes to California residents at the time of the data incident whose claims are approved. The site calls it a California Statutory Payment. Class members who lived in another state at that time do not get the $250.
The California payment is a fixed statutory amount, not reimbursement for any particular expense. That sets it apart from the loss categories, which pay for costs a class member actually bore. A California resident who had no out-of-pocket costs can still claim the $250 if the claim is approved.
Everyone in the class can claim from the other benefit categories the site lists: credit monitoring services, ordinary out-of-pocket losses, extraordinary out-of-pocket losses and attested time, and residual cash payments. The homepage gives no dollar caps for those items.
The settlement agreement is posted on the site’s Court Documents page. The $250 payment and the loss categories appear as separate lines on the homepage, so the agreement and claim form are where a class member learns whether they can be combined.
Claim Depot reports caps of up to $1,000 per person for ordinary unreimbursed costs and up to $10,000 per person for extraordinary losses, plus three years of three-bureau monitoring. Those figures come from the tracker, not the homepage, so the claim form is the place to confirm them.
December 18, January 19 and March 18 on the calendar
The administrator’s Important Dates page sets the schedule. Opting out and objecting both end on December 18, 2026. The claim form is due by January 19, 2027, and the final fairness hearing is set for March 18, 2027 at 10:30 a.m. Pacific time.
Objecting is a different step. A class member who objects stays in the class and tells the court the deal is unfair, and the objection date is the same December 18 as the opt-out date.
Opting out is the one step that cannot be undone casually. A class member who opts out gives up the settlement benefits and keeps the right to sue Kisco alone. Anyone who wants the $250 or any loss payment should skip that step and file a claim instead.
Claims are submitted through the site’s Submit Claim page. Questions go to CPT Group at 1-888-261-1545, KiscoSettlement@cptgroup.com or PO Box 19504, Irvine, CA 92623.
The calendar also leaves room to sort the mail. Notices about data incidents often arrive in a stack with insurance and pharmacy letters, and a claimant who spots the Kisco envelope in November still has two months to file. One who finds it after January 19 has nothing left to file.
A claim filed in October still waits until after the March hearing for the court’s approval. The date that cannot move is January 19, so the paperwork for any loss claim needs to be ready well before it.
Did a Kisco letter arrive, and is California the home state?
Missing January 19 ends every route to money here, from the $250 California payment to reimbursement of ordinary and extraordinary losses. A mailed notice that sat in a pile or was handled by a relative is easy to lose track of with a deadline this far off.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice, a step-by-step filing walkthrough and a claim log and payment tracker. The four-date rule sorts the notice into opt-out, objection, claim and hearing dates, the same four that govern Kisco.
Get the notice-reading rule and claim tracker for the Kisco deadline →
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
