Inotiv Data Breach Settlement — Do You Qualify?

A proposed class settlement would resolve Doyal v. Inotiv Inc., Cause No. 49D01-2604-CE-020713, pending in the Superior Court for Marion County, Indiana. Inotiv is a contract research organization that provides nonclinical drug and medical-device development services, analytical testing, research models, and related services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, academic, government, and other life-science clients. Consumers may not buy ordinary retail products from Inotiv, but employees, applicants, customers, vendors, research partners, or other people may have information in its systems. The settlement notice does not say that every class member had every data field exposed. The lawsuit concerns a cyberattack on Inotiv's computer systems in August 2025. The court-authorized notice says certain files containing private information may have been compromised and may have included Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and financial information. Plaintiffs Laramie Doyal, Emily Merrell, and Stefanie Wagner serve as class representatives. They allege the breach compromised private information. Inotiv denies wrongdoing. The court has not decided which side is right and has not made a finding that Inotiv violated the law. The settlement avoids the cost and uncertainty of continuing litigation while offering benefits to people in the defined class. The class includes people in the United States who were sent a notice by Inotiv informing them that their private information was compromised in the breach. The judge, the judge's family and staff, Inotiv and its officers, directors, and related companies, and people who validly exclude themselves are not included. Because the definition turns on Inotiv's notice records, a person who merely suspects involvement but was not sent notice should contact the official administrator rather than assume eligibility. The benefits use two different paths. A claimant may seek documented ordinary losses up to $500, extraordinary fraud or identity-theft losses up to $4,000, and up to $80 for as many as four hours spent responding to the breach. The ordinary and extraordinary losses must have occurred between August 5, 2025 and September 10, 2026, must be tied to the breach under the notice's standards, and cannot have been reimbursed elsewhere. The lost-time claim requires a written description and an attestation. Instead of those cash benefits, a claimant may choose a one-time $45 payment without proof. The notice states that the $45 option is in place of any other payment, so it should not be combined with ordinary-loss, extraordinary-loss, or lost-time cash claims. All class members may also request two years of CyEx Medical Shield Complete. The service includes medical identity monitoring, $1 million of medical identity-theft insurance, and monitoring for health-insurance ID exposure, medical-record-number exposure, and unauthorized Health Savings Account spending. The notice presents this protection separately from the cash choices. It does not announce a fixed common fund or guarantee any claimant a payment. Claims must be submitted online or postmarked by December 2, 2026. The exclusion and objection deadline is November 2, 2026. Excluding yourself means no settlement benefit but preserves the ability to pursue released claims separately. Objecting keeps you in the settlement while asking the court not to approve some or all of it. Doing nothing produces no benefit and, if the settlement becomes final, releases covered claims. The final approval hearing is scheduled for December 3, 2026 at 11:45 a.m. Eastern by videoconference. Payments depend on final approval and any appeals.

The documented-payment path includes up to $500 for ordinary out-of-pocket expenses, up to $4,000 for qualifying identity-theft or fraud losses, and up to four hours of lost time at $20 per hour, for a maximum of $80. Losses must satisfy the notice's date, causation, documentation, mitigation, and no-duplicate-reimbursement rules. The $45 alternative cash payment requires no proof but is expressly offered instead of other payments. Two years of CyEx Medical Shield Complete is available to all class members and includes $1 million of medical identity-theft insurance and specialized monitoring. No benefit is paid unless the claim is valid and timely, and cash distribution waits for final approval and resolution of any appeals.