Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital Data Breach Settlement

Who Is Eligible?

You may be eligible to file a claim if you:

• The class is "all persons who were sent written notification of the Data Incident". That is the court's full definition, word for word. There is no second route in.
• No letter means no claim, whatever this page said before. It previously told readers they might qualify without one. They do not. Having been a patient at the hospital is not the test, and neither is living in Butler County.
• You may have had two mailings, not one. The administrator says SBAMH's own records identified class members and that you may have received an earlier notice directly from the hospital after the attack. The settlement notice is the later one, and it carries a Notice ID.
• What was in the files was medical, not financial. Names, dates of birth, health insurance information, billing information, and notes about treatment. Social Security numbers are not on the list, and neither are bank or card details.
• That changes what you should watch for. Medical identity theft shows up as treatment you never had appearing on an insurance statement, or a claim eating into your benefit limits. It rarely shows up on a credit report, which is where most people look.
• Excluded: the judge on the case along with their family and staff, and anyone who carried out the attack.
• Genuinely unsure? The administrator will check for you on (833) 421-7273 or at info@SBAMHDataSettlement.com. That is a better use of ten minutes than filing a claim you are not entitled to make.

How Much Can You Get?

There is no settlement fund here. No pot of millions is being divided, and you will not see a headline figure for this one because there is not one to quote. The hospital pays valid claims as they are approved. Separately, class counsel is asking the court for $150,000 in fees and costs, and $1,500 for each of the four class representatives.

Cash option one: documented out-of-pocket losses, up to $100. The loss has to have fallen between 14 July 2025 and 12 November 2026. It covers money lost to identity theft or fraud, fees for credit reports or for freezing and unfreezing your credit, the cost of replacing IDs, and even postage if you had to write to your bank.

You need real paperwork for that one. Bank statements or receipts. A note you wrote yourself can explain what you are attaching, but the notice is explicit that your own notes alone are not enough to make a valid claim. Anything a third party has already reimbursed cannot be claimed again.

Cash option two: attested time, up to four hours at $25 an hour. That is $25, $50, $75 or $100 depending on how many hours you pick, and you describe briefly what you did. Changing passwords counts. So does checking accounts for odd activity, or reading up on what happened.

Now the part that decides how you file: the $100 is an aggregate cap. The notice states there is a $100 aggregate cap across both cash benefits, and the claim form repeats it. Claiming documented losses and attested time together does not produce $200.

So for most people the efficient claim is four hours of attested time. It reaches the cap by itself, needs no receipts, and takes a sentence to describe. Documented losses are only worth the paperwork if you have nothing to attest to, or if you simply prefer to claim what actually happened.

The benefit worth more than the money: two years of CyEx Medical Shield Complete. It carries $1,000,000 of medical identity theft insurance and monitors for healthcare insurance ID exposure, Medical Record Number exposure, and spending on a health savings account you did not authorize. A fraud resolution agent helps you unpick anything that surfaces. You have to tick the box on the form to enroll, so it is easy to leave behind.

Cash is paid by PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or a mailed check, whichever you choose on the form.

How to File Your Claim

File with the administrator:

• File at sbamhdatasettlement.com, which is run by Simpluris and is the official site for this case. Submit online, download the form and post it, or ring the administrator on (833) 421-7273 for a paper copy.
• You do not need the ID from your letter. The form asks for a "Notice ID (if known)", which makes it optional. If the envelope went in the bin months ago, that does not stop you filing.
• Tick the credit monitoring box first. It is section two of the form, it costs you nothing, and two years of medical-specific monitoring with $1 million of insurance is the largest thing on offer here. Skip the box and you simply do not get it.
• For attested time, pick your hours and say what you did. The form offers one, two, three or four hours as a single choice, at $25 each, and asks for a brief description. Four hours reaches the cap.
• For documented losses, fill the table and attach proof. Each row takes a description and an amount, and you attach bank statements or receipts to back it. Run out of rows and you can add sheets, signing and printing your name on each one.
• Do not bother claiming both to the maximum. The combined payment is capped at $100 either way, and the form says so on its face.
• Choose how you want paying and sign. PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or a check in the post. The form is signed under penalty of perjury.
• The dates, in order. Opt out or object by 13 October 2026. File your claim by 12 November 2026. The judge decides whether to approve the settlement at a hearing on 7 December 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Central, held at the Butler County courthouse in El Dorado, and nothing is paid until that is done and any appeals are finished.

Frequently Asked Questions