If you don’t exclude yourself, then you will remain in the Settlement Classes, and that means that if the Settlement is given Final Approval and reaches the Final Settlement Date, then you shall be deemed to be a “Releasing Party.” As a Releasing Party, you shall be deemed to release the following “Released Claims”:
Any and all claims, causes of action, suits, obligations, debts, demands, agreements, promises, liabilities, damages, losses, controversies, costs, expenses, refunds, reimbursem*nts, restitution, and attorneys’ fees of any nature whatsoever, whether arising under federal law, state law, local law, common law or equity, state or federal antitrust laws, any state’s consumer protection laws, unjust enrichment, contract, rule, regulation, any regulatory promulgation (including, but not limited to, any opinion or declaratory ruling), or any other law, including Unknown Claims, whether suspected or unsuspected, asserted or unasserted, foreseen or unforeseen, actual or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated, punitive or compensatory, that were advanced in the Action, or that are related to the facts, transactions, events, occurrences, acts, or omissions alleged in the Action and could have been advanced in the Action, as of the date of the Final Order and Judgment (excluding, for avoidance of doubt, any claims to enforce the Settlement or the Final Order and Judgment). However, for the avoidance of doubt, the Parties agree that the Settlement Agreement shall not limit Settlement Class Members’ ability to claim or receive relief in connection with the settlement reached in the FTC v. Benefytt Technologies, Inc., No. 8:22-cv-01794-TPB-JSS (M.D. Fla.). The Parties agree that claims for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act 47 U.S.C. § 227 et seq., or state court analogues, against the Benefytt Defendants, are not affected by this Settlement.
This release will include claims that you and any other Settlement Class Member do not know or suspect to exist in her, his or its favor at the time of the release of the Released Parties, which if known by him, her, or it might have affected her, his, or its decision(s) with respect to the Settlement, including the decision to seek exclusion from or object to the Settlement.
This release will include claims that you and any other Settlement Class Member do not know or suspect to exist in her, his or its favor at the time of the release of the Released Parties, which if known by him, her, or it might have affected her, his, or its decision(s) with respect to the Settlement, including the decision to seek exclusion from or object to the Settlement.
If the Settlement is given final approval, then all Settlement Class Members will have expressly, and by operation of the Judgment to the fullest extent permitted by law, waived and relinquished any and all provisions, rights, and benefits conferred by any law or any state or territory of the United States, or principle of common law, which is similar, comparable, or equivalent to California Civil Code § 1542, which provides:
A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS THAT THE CREDITOR OR RELEASING PARTY DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS OR HER FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE RELEASE AND THAT, IF KNOWN BY HIM OR HER, WOULD HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS OR HER SETTLEMENT WITH THE DEBTOR OR RELEASED PARTY.
As a “Releasing Party” you shall be deemed to understand and acknowledge the significance of these waivers of California Civil Code Section 1542 and/or of any other applicable law relating to limitations on releases. In connection with such waivers and relinquishment, you shall be deemed to acknowledge that you are aware that you may hereafter discover facts in addition to, or different from, those facts which they now know or believe to be true with respect to the subject matter of the Settlement Agreement, but that you release fully, finally, and forever all Released Claims, and in furtherance of such intention, the release fully, finally, and forever all Released Claims, and in furtherance of such intention, the release will remain in effect notwithstanding the discovery or existence of any such additional or different facts. You shall acknowledge, and by operation of law shall be deemed to have acknowledged, that the inclusion of “Unknown Claims” in the definition of Released Claims was separately bargained for and was a material element of the Settlement.
The full terms of the Release provisions of the Settlement are at Section IX of the Settlement Agreement, a copy of which is available on the documents section of this Settlement website.
