Altrua HealthShare & Health Admins TCPA Prerecorded Call Class Action Settlement

TCPA · Prerecorded Calls · Claims Open

Current Status

Claims are open. The deadline to file is October 20, 2026 — online Claim Forms must be submitted by that date and mailed Claim Forms must be postmarked no later than the same date. The Notice does not specify a cutoff time or a timezone, so treat the date itself as the deadline. The Court entered its Preliminary Approval Order on July 22, 2026, and the Final Approval Hearing is scheduled for October 22, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. CDT. No final approval order has been entered and no payment date had been announced as of August 25, 2026. If a postcard reached you, it carries the Class Member ID you need to file.

What Changed Recently?

The case behind this settlement, Finley v. Altrua Ministries et al., Case No. 2026CH000018, was filed in the Circuit Court of LaSalle County, Illinois, Chancery Division. It names two defendants: Altrua Ministries, which does business as Altrua HealthShare, and Crown Administrators, Inc., which does business as Health Admins. The complaint alleges that the defendants violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by placing prerecorded calls to cellular telephone numbers without prior express consent. Both defendants deny all wrongdoing, and the Notice states plainly that the Court has not decided who is right.

The Settlement Agreement was fully executed on June 18, 2026, and the Court entered its Preliminary Approval Order on July 22, 2026. That order set the class definition, authorized the notice program and opened the claims process. Kroll Settlement Administration began mailing postcard notices to the phone numbers identified in the calling records obtained for the case, and the official settlement website went live with the Claim Form, the Long Form Notice, the Settlement Agreement and the Preliminary Approval Order posted in its Documents section.

Who Qualifies?

The Settlement Class is defined narrowly. You are a Settlement Class Member if you are an individual in the United States to whom Crown, on behalf of Altrua, placed a phone call (1) through the use of AIRudder, (2) to a telephone number, (3) from December 2, 2024 through December 11, 2024.

Two things about that definition are worth reading twice. The first is the window: ten days, not ten months. A prerecorded call from the same operation in November 2024 or January 2025 falls outside the class. The second is the platform. AIRudder is the calling system named in the class definition, and eligibility turns on whether your call was placed through it — not on whether you remember hearing a recording. Neither element is something a class member can check from memory, which is why membership was drawn from the calling records obtained for the case and the administrator mailed notices to the numbers on that list rather than asking people to self-identify.

The Notice adds that you may still be part of the Settlement Class even if no notice reached you, as long as your phone number appears in those calling records. The Settlement Class excludes the defendants and their officers and directors, anyone who timely and validly requests exclusion, and the judges assigned to the case along with their staff and immediate families.

How Much Can You Get?

The Notice describes a Settlement Payment of up to $700.00. That is a ceiling, not a promise. The settlement creates a maximum fund of $1,100,000.00, and payments may be reduced on a pro rata basis so that approved claims, notice and administrative expenses, the fee award and costs, and the service award together do not exceed that Aggregate Cap.