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Visa/Mastercard Class Action Settlement

An Important Message from the Experts in Class Action Settlements

JEL specializes in managing client claims in class action settlements.  We are currently helping clients file claims for the largest class action settlement in US history.  If you or your business accepted Visa and/or Mastercard credit and/or debit cards in the United States from approx. January 1, 2004 to January 25, 2019, you are owed money as a result of this settlement.  Deadline to file is May 31, 2024.


Question: How do you recover the money you are owed?

  • You must file a claim.  You can do this on your own.  However, this is something that we at JE Lawrence specialize in.  Please ask your JEL representative questions regarding your claim to decide what is best for you.  JEL will manage your claim throughout the entire process and help maximize your recovery as we work directly with the claims administrators to ensure this happens.

Question: How much money will I get back?  Is it even worth filing a claim?

  • Companies can recover a substantial amount of money because this is a commercial class action settlement worth 5.6 billion. The amount depends on how many companies file a claim and how much revenue they brought in via credit/debit cards from 2004-2019. 18 million companies qualify for this money, but the claims administrators are predicting less than 200,000 will file a claim. Those who do not file a claim lose the money they are owed, and it then goes to the companies who did file a claim. There was a similar settlement in 2004. That lawsuit was 2.4 billion and only 80,000 companies filed out of a possible 12 million. Those companies received roughly 1% back from the revenue they brought in that year via credit/debit cards.

Question: Why work with JE Lawrence?

  • We do the work for your company, and we can maximize the amount of money you recover.  We have a unique opportunity to work with the claim’s administrators (the government agency overseeing the claims) to ensure we recover every dollar you are owed.

Deadline to file - May 31st, 2024

Question: What is needed to file a claim?

  • As you will see below, everything that JE Lawrence needs to file your claim is public knowledge
    • Company Legal Name
    • Company DBA Name
    • Address
    • Phone Number
    • Owner's Name
    • Owner's Email address
    • Tax ID

From there, JE Lawrence will send you the SIP (information package). It includes the DocuSign contract and information about the lawsuit. You would then sign the contract and we would take over from there. We will then send confirmation down the road when we process the claim.

To get started filing your claim, contact Dave Letsen at 540-905-9930 or dletsen@jelcrs.com