IF YOU ARE A MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONIST WHO TRANSCRIBED WORK FOR MEDQUIST AT ANY TIME DURING THE PERIOD FROM NOVEMBER 29, 1998, TO AUGUST 11 2008, AND WERE PAID ON A LINE-BASED UNIT OF MEASURE FOR YOUR WORK, YOU ARE A MEMBER OF A CLASS OF PEOPLE SUBJECT TO THE CLASS ACTION SETTLEMENT DESCRIBED BELOW.

This case was brought as a class action alleging claims against MedQuist Inc. and MedQuist Transcriptions Ltd. (together “MedQuist”) for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, unjust enrichment and seeking an accounting on behalf of medical transcriptionists who were compensated on a “per line” basis from November 28, 1998 through August 11, 2008. The case asserted that MedQuist manipulated its computer systems to underpay its medical transcriptionists for their per-line medical transcription work. MedQuist denies that it did anything wrong.

MedQuist agreed to injunctive relief and paid $1.5 million in cash to settle the case.

On Friday, March 27, 2009 the federal district court for the District of New Jersey approved the Settlement. The Court's Opinion and Order are available in the Legal Documents section of this web site.

A description of the injunctive relief is available here.

The bulk of the $1.5 million settlement payment was distributed to the Association for Healthcare Document Integrity (“AHDI”). No payments will be made directly to any class members. No attorneys’ fees were sought by or paid to Plaintiffs’ Counsel for their work on behalf of the class. AHDI was formerly known as the American Association for Medical Transcription (“AAMT”). The payment to AHDI will be used to fund programs for the general benefit of medical transcriptionists and the medical transcription industry. In addition, AHDI is offering certain of its programs free of charge to qualifying class members who register with AHDI by July 1, 2010. A description of available programs is available here. More information about program options and registration are available via AHDI’s website http://www.ahdionline.org. Registration with AHDI will be available beginning on July 15, 2009.