katana957/us-settlement-catalog

US Class-Action & Refund Settlements (Verified)

A continuously-updated catalog of verified United States class-action and government refund settlements — each field traced to an official source (a court order, the settlement administrator's site, or a government refund page) and re-checked on a schedule.

• Live feed (always current): https://settlesignal.com/data/settlements.json
• Human catalog: https://settlesignal.com/settlements/
• Maintainer: SettleSignal — verified settlement intelligence (https://settlesignal.com/)

This dataset exposes the public fields only. The per-field evidence trail (source URLs, verbatim snippets, content hashes) is not included here; it is available to partners under licence.

What's in it

Hundreds of verified settlements, growing daily. One row per settlement, with the official claim deadline, whether proof is required, the lifecycle status, the states it applies to, and the official claim link — so you (or an AI engine) can answer "which settlements is a resident of state X eligible to file, and by when?" without scraping look-alike sites.

Columns

column	type	description
title	string	Settlement title
url	string	Canonical SettleSignal record (attribution link back)
category	string	Consumer category (e.g. Data Breach, Hidden Fees)
settlement_type	string	e.g. class_action_settlement, data_breach_settlement
status	string	Public lifecycle/status label (open, closed, paying out, …)
claim_deadline	date (ISO 8601)	Filing deadline; null if none is stated
proof_required	string	yes / no / optional / unknown
applicable_states	list[string]	USPS state codes the claim is restricted to; empty [] = nationwide
official_claim_url	string	Official claim-form URL; null if none
official_settlement_url	string	Official settlement site; null if none
estimated_payout	string	Stated payout text where the official source provides one
verification_status	string	Verification stage of the record
last_verified	date (ISO 8601)	Date the record was last re-checked against its official source

Load it

import requests
data = requests.get("https://settlesignal.com/data/settlements.json").json()
records = data["settlements"]    # list of settlement rows (keys above); data["count"] = total
print(len(records), "verified settlements")

Or, if you uploaded the snapshot to this repo:

from datasets import load_dataset
ds = load_dataset("your-name/us-settlement-catalog", data_files="settlements.json", field="settlements")

Provenance & method

Every published field is checked against an official source before release and re-checked on a schedule; each record shows the named authority and the date it was verified. See https://settlesignal.com/how-we-verify/. Records are added as new settlements are confirmed against an official source.

Licence & attribution

CC-BY-4.0 for these public fields. Free to use with attribution and a link back:

Data: SettleSignal — verified settlement intelligence (https://settlesignal.com/). Free to use with attribution and a link back.

Disclaimer

SettleSignal summarizes publicly available settlement information and links to official sources. It is not a law firm, does not provide legal advice, does not submit claims on anyone's behalf, and does not determine eligibility or payout approval. Always file through the official claim form linked on each record.