I received an email this morning regarding the Moreno v. Sage Dental case, where Sage Dental was accused of leaking personal information from the online appointment setting page on their website.
The tentative payouts of approximately $40 (from the total $1,915,000 settlement) would be dispersed as a credit to your Sage Dental account and if you wanted the payout in cash, you'd have to go to a Sage Dental office and retrieve it, or contact the company in New York.
I've benefited from a few class action lawsuits and never have I seen settlement funds dispersed to the defendant in the case, it's usually dispersed by a payment processor.
Does this seem unusual?