What happens after a Prop 65 notice
A 60-day notice is an allegation. Some are followed by a lawsuit, many end in a settlement, and some go no further. The counts below come from what the filing parties reported to the California Attorney General, grouped by the year the notice was filed.
Notices filed in 2026
Still being read: 0 of 5,302 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2026 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2025
Still being read: 0 of 5,233 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2025 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2024
Still being read: 0 of 5,398 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2024 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2023
Still being read: 0 of 4,142 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2023 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2022
Still being read: 0 of 3,170 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2022 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2021
Still being read: 0 of 3,185 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2021 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2020
Still being read: 0 of 3,514 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2020 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2019
Still being read: 22 of 2,410 notices checked. Figures appear once every notice filed in 2019 has been checked.
Notices filed in 2018
- Notices filed
- 2,367
- Followed by a lawsuit (a complaint on record)
- 478 of 2,367 (20.2%)
- With a settlement or judgment on record
- 973 of 2,367 (41.1%)
- Median time from notice to first settlement or judgment after it
- 203 days
- Settlements and judgments counted, each once
- 1,068
- Median total payment
- $21,200.00
- All payments together
- $60,386,235.00
- Share of payments that is attorney fees and costs
- 69.4%
How to read these figures
- They cover notices filed from 2018 on. Earlier notices are not included.
- They are counts of what happened to past notices. They are not a prediction for any company, and they are not legal advice.
- They rely on filers reporting complaints, settlements and judgments to the Attorney General. An outcome that was never reported is not counted.
- Recent years are still being resolved. Settlements are often reported a year or more after the notice, so the rates for recent years will rise.
- A settlement that covers several notices is counted once, under the year of the earliest of those notices. A judgment that only confirms a settlement is not counted as a second payment.
- A settlement is not an admission and not a finding that anyone broke the law.
- A year gets figures only after every notice filed in it has been checked against the state's records.