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On 15 August 2017, several news web sites reported that an ongoing class action lawsuit meant that anyone who received an automated telemarketing phone call from certain cruise companies between 2009 and 2014 could receive compensation: The case is real, the settlement arrangement is real, and the possibility of receiving compensation is real, although far from certain. On 6 July 2017, Northern Illinois U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Wood ordered that the following category of people be included in the settlement class in this case (that is, people who are theoretically eligible to receive compensation): The defendants include Resort Marketing Group, Inc. (RMG), Carnival Corporation & PLC, Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., and NCL [Norwegian Cruise Line] (Bahamas) Ltd. A firm called Kurtzman Carson Consultants has been engaged by the court as settlement administrators, and has set up a site where members of the public can check their possible eligibility for compensation by entering their phone number and other details. According to the settlement agreement, the total payout by RMG will be between USD$7 and $12.5 million, and the maximum possible compensation per person per phone number will be $900: However, if the number of people eligible for compensation is high enough, then the settlement fund ($7-12.5 million) will have to be more thinly disbursed, meaning the amount each individual gets could well end up being lower than $300. The class action complaint, the settlement agreement, and the judge's order certifying the settlement agreement can all be read online. For further reading, the case is Charvat v. Resort Marketing Group et al., Case No. 1:12cv05746 in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois. The deadline for responding was extended to 31 May 2018 due to a preponderance of apparently fraudulent claims.
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