TLC Driver Suspension Settlement | Class Action Tracker

You may be included if you were a taxi or for-hire vehicle driver whose TLC license was suspended because of an arrest on a criminal charge between June 28, 2003, and February 18, 2020.
Submitting a claim is necessary to seek payment. The notice does not say that every class member will receive money.

The City agreed to pay $140 million, but the money available for class payments is reduced by court-approved fees, expenses, notice and administration costs, and certain incentive payments.
Your initial payment is a pro rata share. That means it depends on the number of timely valid claims, so it may be higher or lower than the listed initial cap amount.
The listed initial cap amounts range from $700 for 25 or fewer suspension days to $36,000 for 391 or more days. A person with no recorded suspension end date has a listed cap of $17,000. Required deductions, such as overdue child support or docketed NYC parking judgments where applicable, can also reduce a payment.

The suspension-length categories use TLC records.
If you had more than one suspension during the class period, the settlement adds qualifying suspensions together. But a suspension lasting fewer than 32 calendar days does not count toward that cumulative total.
People who did not previously request an individual damages hearing receive 37.5% of the amount distributed under the applicable suspension-length category.

Complete and sign the attached Claim Form, then submit it by mail, fax, email, or online.
The claim form requires you to affirm that you would have requested a constitutionally adequate post-suspension hearing, and that you believe in good faith you would have succeeded and had the suspension lifted.
After final court approval, you must also submit a City of New York Substitute Form W-9 to receive payment.
The notice text provided here does not state a claim deadline. It refers to a timely Claim Form, but the attached form was not included in the supplied text.

The notice says a second distribution may occur only if more than $250,000 remains unclaimed after the first distribution.
If that happens, 60% of the remaining amount may be redistributed to timely claimants, up to $22.5 million. An additional payment is capped at 35% of a person’s original settlement award.
This is not guaranteed. The stated rules return other remaining funds to the City.

You may object in writing by mail. The objection must be postmarked no later than July 21, 2025.
Your objection must include your contact information, reasons and supporting legal or factual arguments, your signature, and the case name and number.
The final-approval hearing is scheduled for August 13, 2025, at 10 a.m. The notice says you may attend, and if the court permits, speak about an objection.

Opting out means asking to be excluded from the settlement. You must mail the exclusion request by July 21, 2025.
The request must include your name and address, say that you seek exclusion from this settlement, and say that you understand you will receive no money from it.
If you opt out, you will not receive a settlement payment. You keep the right to bring your own separate lawsuit, but class counsel will no longer represent you for claims against the defendants.
If you neither submit a claim nor opt out, you receive no settlement money but remain in the class and release the covered claims against the defendants.

Other Important Dates

Exclusion deadline: 2025-07-21
Objection deadline: 2025-07-21
Final approval hearing: August 13, 2025 at 10 a.m.
Hearing location: United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10013, Courtroom 21C

Official Settlement Website
Claim form, FAQ, deadlines, administrator information

Official Settlement Notice (PDF)
Court-approved notice describing eligibility and benefits