Star Casualty Total Loss Settlement: Who Can Claim Title and Tag Fees

You can apply online or return a paper claim form. Complete the form and send it on time; a mailed form must also be signed.

For mail, the envelope needs a postmark by October 26, 2026. For online submission, finish by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time that day.

The online form asks for the Claim ID and PIN from the notice sent to you by mail or email. If you cannot find them, email the administrator at [email protected] with your last name and address to request help. Question 8 of the notice gives the full submission instructions.

The notice clearly requires a complete claim form sent by the deadline, with a signature for a mailed form. It does not specify which additional records, if any, must support a claim for missing transfer fees or improper storage or towing deductions.

Follow the claim form’s instructions. The separate documentation rules for objecting to the settlement should not be treated as the requirements for an ordinary payment claim.

Yes, if your claim qualifies for both. You may recover missing title or tag transfer fees and improper storage or towing deductions, within each benefit’s limits. You do not have to choose between the fee refund and the payment for improper deductions.

Interest also applies to unpaid amounts. Any money already paid for the same fees or storage reduces what remains payable, so the listed limits are not a guaranteed payment for every claimant.

The notice does not promise a calendar payment date. It sets a 90-day window measured from the settlement’s Effective Date, a defined term that is not given a calendar date in this notice.

The court must approve the settlement before payment, and unresolved objections may delay the process. The notice says distribution will take place as soon as possible after approval and resolution of objections.

To leave, or opt out, send a written request to the administrator by U.S. mail with enough postage. The notice sets September 14, 2026 as the deadline for a request to be postmarked or received.

Identify this lawsuit, give your full name and current address, and include the name or address used for your total-loss claim if either has changed. Clearly ask to be excluded and sign the request.

Requests must be individual. A legal representative signing for someone else must give their own name, contact details and authority to act. Follow question 13 of the notice for the complete instructions and the address marked Attn: Exclusion.

An objection tells the court why you disagree while you remain part of the settlement. File it with the court and mail copies to both sides’ lawyers by September 14, 2026, using the filing and postmark rules in questions 14 and 17.

The notice requires identifying information, support for your class membership, reasons for the objection and other details. It also asks about supporting documents, objections in other cases during the previous five years, any lawyer involved, and plans to attend or speak.

If you want permission to speak at the hearing, additional requirements apply, including supporting legal and factual grounds and documentary proof of class membership. Questions 14, 16 and 17 give the complete requirements and addresses. Use those instructions rather than treating this summary as a full filing checklist.

If you stay, you give up specified claims against Star Casualty and the other parties covered by the release. These concern unpaid sales tax, title and tag transfer fees, and excess storage or towing deductions on qualifying vehicles declared a total loss and paid during March 22, 2018 through June 26, 2026.

Claims about an incorrect vehicle-value calculation are generally outside that release, except where they concern the listed fees or deductions. Question 7 of the notice and the settlement agreement explain the exact scope. Leaving the settlement is the procedure for keeping any right to pursue the claims it resolves separately.