$3.85M Boston Sports Club Settlement Resolves AG Suit Over Membership Billing Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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Boston Sports Club and former CEO Patrick Walsh have been ordered to pay $3,850,048 to resolve a Massachusetts Attorney General lawsuit that alleged gym members were wrongfully charged in April 2020 for services Walsh knew would not be provided due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that consumers’ efforts to cancel their memberships were “thwarted.”

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The Boston Sports Club judgment was signed by Massachusetts Superior Court Justice Hélene Kazanjian on September 9, 2025. Under the order, Walsh must pay restitution to the Commonwealth—money that, according to a press release, will be distributed back to impacted customers.

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell’s office announced on March 18, 2026 that nearly 47,000 consumers in the state are set to receive restitution checks.

The official website for the Boston Sports Club settlement can be found at BostonSportsClubRefund.com.

To claim a refund, those covered by the BSC settlement can head to this page and enter their claim number and PIN, which eligible consumers should have received by email, to log in and select their preferred payment method.

The website explains that should a consumer take no action, payment will be issued by the refund administrator via Zelle or paper check to an eligible consumer’s last known mailing address on file.

Boston Sports Club COVID-19 refunds must be claimed online by June 16, 2026.

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Consumers who did not receive an email with a claim number and PIN but believe they may be eligible for a Boston Sports Club refund can contact the refund administrator for more information.

The settlement website also notes that BSC refunds will be issued in waves and that consumers can expect payment within a few weeks of submitting a refund claim form.

The Boston Sports Club lawsuit, tried in Suffolk County Superior Court in December 2024, claimed that Walsh wrongfully charged consumers for membership fees in April 2020 despite knowing that the gyms would not be operational during the pandemic. Walsh also allegedly obstructed consumers’ attempts to cancel their memberships, which supposedly had to be done in person, and failed to honor cancellation requests.

The attorney general’s office says it received more than 2,000 complaints from Boston Sports Club members regarding the April 2020 billing.

According to the September 2025 press release, Town Sports International was previously a defendant in the litigation but filed for bankruptcy in September 2020 and was removed from the court’s judgment.

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