Welcome to the Information Website for the Rogers v. BNSF Railway Company Settlement.
This settlement resolved two class action lawsuits brought on behalf of persons who alleged that BNSF Railway Company (“Defendant”) required truck drivers to register their fingerprint information using an auto-gate system at BNSF’s Illinois facilities without complying with the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS § 14/1, et seq. (“BIPA”). The lawsuits are: Rogers v. BNSF Railway Company, No. 19-cv-03083 (N.D. Ill.) and Rogers v. BNSF Railway Company, No. 2019-CH-04393 (Cook Cnty., Ill.).
Cash Payments. Defendant has created a $75,000,000.00 Settlement Fund to compensate Class Members. If you are a Class Member who did not exclude yourself from the Settlement Class, you will automatically receive an equal share of the Settlement Fund after deductions for the Settlement Administrator’s expenses, attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses for Class Counsel, and Service Awards for the Class Representatives. The exact amount of each Settlement Class Member’s payment is unknown at this time, but the net per Class Member payment is estimated to be approximately $1,000.00. All checks issued to Settlement Class Members will expire and become void 120 days after they are issued.
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