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| Procedure In most class action suits, the loser is required to turn over contact information for anybody who is in the class. Everybody who had service for one day of the 30 months wll probably get a notice. I didn't read the decision, but it'll probably go something like this:
You'll get something in the mail in the next few months from the law firm which is handling the disbursements.
There'll be a claim form.
Everybody gets a pro-rated piece of the pie. It's hard to see how the plaintiffs could predicate the amount you get based on how much you weren't able to download, so it's probably based on $X per month for every month you had service. You should be able to quickly figure out whether the amount you have coming is worth a postage stamp to send back the claim form.
The hitch will be whether the burden is on you to prove you had service via bill copies, cancelled checks, etc. It would be in the administrator's (law firm) interest to require YOU to provide proof, because that way they get to keep most of the dough. With an action this broad, the administrator may set up a web site to facilitate claims; it reduces their costs.
I got a class action notice the other day because of some RAM I bought from Crucial (a/k/a Micron and 20 other subsidiaries) in like 1999 or something. It required a receipt.
I get class action notifications all the time for stocks I daytraded years ago; I never have a valid claim because I never held the stocks on the boundary dates.
Class action decisions are usually very broadly based (hence the name), but narrowly defined. | |
| Ha, OK, the hitch is you have to have your Comcast Account number.
I just called Comcast and got mine from a peppy Customer Service Rep (switched to FIOS in Jan, but he didn't even try to re-connect me or ask why I needed my old acct number).
In the online claim form, you have to certify under penalty of perjury that you used one of the affected P2P services during the period (you have to specify which), for lawful purposes, that you have reason to believe your performance was affected, and that you have not previously asked for a refund. | |
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