Indegene - Unwanted Faxes Class Action Settlement

Current Status

Claims are open. The deadline to file is December 9, 2026, and a claim must be submitted online or postmarked by that date; the settlement documents do not state a time of day or timezone. The court preliminarily approved the settlement in August 2026, and the final approval hearing is scheduled for January 12, 2027. No final approval order has been entered, and no payment date has been announced as of October 10, 2026.

What Changed Recently?

Indegene, Inc. agreed to settle Progressive Health and Rehab Corp. v. Indegene, Inc., et al., a class action pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey since 2020. The plaintiff, a health care business, alleges that Indegene and three affiliated companies violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by sending advertisements by fax without the recipients’ prior express invitation or permission. Indegene denies the allegations and any wrongdoing, and the settlement is not a finding that any law was broken.

The case had already moved further than most junk fax suits before it settled. The court certified a class on July 17, 2025, and Indegene asked the appeals court for permission to challenge that ruling before the parties reached an agreement through a mediator. The settlement agreement was signed in August 2026, the court granted preliminary approval later that month, and notice went out by fax, with mailed notice as a fallback, which opened the claim period that ends December 9, 2026.

The settlement resolves claims only about the February 2020 fax. Under the agreement, class members do not release claims about any other fax advertisement Indegene may have sent.

Who Qualifies?

The settlement class is every person or entity that was successfully sent a fax on or about February 7, 2020, titled “Medical Record Review of the Impact of Adverse Events Associated with the Use of Current anti-Parkinson’s Disease Medications on Patient Clinical Therapeutics and Outcomes Trajectories in the U.S.,” that offered an honorarium of $250 per eligible patient. Given the subject matter, most recipients are physician practices and other health care offices.

Membership turns on the fax number, not on whether anyone at the office read the fax. The class list was built in discovery from roughly 18,869 fax transmissions, and a claim counts only if at least one fax number listed on the claim form is a number that was deemed to have received the fax successfully.

Indegene and its parents, subsidiaries, affiliates and controlled persons are excluded, along with their officers, directors, members, managers, agents and employees and those people’s immediate families. The court and its officers are also excluded.

How Much Can You Get?

Each valid claim is set to receive a check for $250, and the agreement describes that amount as $250 per fax. Payments drop below $250 only if the total of approved claims, plus attorneys’ fees, expenses, the class representative’s award and administration costs, would be more than the settlement fund. In that case every approved claimant receives an equal pro rata share instead.

The fund is up to $4,717,250, which works out to exactly $250 for each of the roughly 18,869 faxes. Class counsel will ask the court for 35% of the fund in fees and costs, or $1,651,037.50, plus a $15,000 award for the plaintiff business. Subtracting those two requests leaves about $3.05 million before administration costs, which have not been disclosed. By OCA’s estimate, that is enough for roughly 12,200 full $250 payments, so a pro rata cut would come into play only if claims from about two-thirds of the class list were approved. That is an estimate from the published figures, not a projection from the administrator.