$5M J.B. Hunt Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Background Check Violations for Job Applicants, Employees

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A $5 million settlement will resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged J.B. Hunt Transport Services illegally took adverse action against job applicants and employees subjected to a background check without first providing a copy of their consumer report or summary of rights under the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).

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The J.B. Hunt class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on June 26, 2025. The deal covers any J.B. Hunt Transport Services employees or job applicants in the United States, its territories and other political subdivisions who, between June 22, 2020 and September 11, 2024, were subjected to a background check that led to an adverse employment decision and who were not provided with a copy of their consumer report or FCRA summary of rights within at least five business days before the adverse employment action was taken.

The court-approved website for the J.B. Hunt Transport Services settlement can be found at JBHuntFCRASettlement.com.

J.B. Hunt settlement class members—approximately 14,915 people—do not need to do anything to receive a class action settlement payment, the website states.

The court estimates that most class members’ payments will be around $100 per person. However, the settlement payout amount is estimated to be roughly $400 per person for the 5,681 class members for whom J.B. Hunt has no record of sending any pre-adverse action notice or consumer report copies at all—referred to as the “No Notice Subgroup” in the court documents and on the settlement website.

Each class member’s copy of the settlement notice states whether they are in the “No Notice Subgroup.”

Class action settlement payments will be sent to class members via mailed check. Should any class member need to update their mailing address, they can visit this page and log in with the unique claim ID and PIN found in their copy of the settlement notice.

J.B. Hunt has also agreed, as part of the settlement, to review and revise its procedures for sending notice of adverse employment actions based on background checks.

A hearing is set for November 20, 2025 to determine whether the settlement will receive final court approval. Payments will begin to be distributed to J.B. Hunt class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The J.B. Hunt Transport Services class action lawsuit was filed in June 2022 by an individual who claimed to have been denied employment as a driver at J.B. Hunt based on the results of a standardized background screening. The man alleged that the third party responsible for conducting the background check mistakenly reported him as ineligible for the job based on a purported felony conviction on his criminal record.

The plaintiff stated in the lawsuit that what was reported to J.B. Hunt was “completely inaccurate,” as he does not have any criminal record, meaning the background check belonged to someone else. According to the case, the plaintiff was unable to dispute the report’s accuracy due to J.B. Hunt’s failure to provide him with a copy of his background report and a summary of his FCRA rights.

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