How to Fill Out the General Electric Securities Litigation Claim Form

The General Electric securities litigation involves two separate claim forms, not one. The private class action settlement (Sjunde AP-Fonden v. General Electric Company) used a Proof of Claim and Release Form with a June 20, 2025 filing deadline, while the SEC’s $200 million Fair Fund uses its own claim form and is still processing submissions. Both forms ask you to list every purchase and sale of GE common stock during a defined window, attach brokerage documentation for each trade, and certify the information under penalty of perjury. If you were eligible for both proceedings, you needed to file separately with each — one submission does not count for the other.1General Electric Securities Litigation. General Electric Securities Litigation

Which Claim Form Applies to You

The two proceedings cover overlapping but different windows of GE common stock trading, and the dates on your brokerage statements determine which form you should have filed.

If your purchases fall inside both windows, both forms applied to you and each needed its own submission.

One Form Per Legal Entity or Managed Account

Each separate legal entity or separately managed account needs its own claim form. Do not combine personal brokerage transactions with IRA transactions on a single form. If one person held multiple separately managed accounts, a separate claim could be submitted for each.4General Electric Securities Litigation. Proof of Claim and Release Form

The Schedule of Transactions

Part III of the private settlement form — the Schedule of Transactions — is where most claimants make mistakes. You list every purchase, sale, free transfer, and delivery of GE common stock during the class period, not just the trades that lost money. The administrator needs the full picture to run the allocation formula.

For each transaction, the form asks for:

  • The trade date
  • The number of shares
  • The total price (purchase or sale)

Report share prices and quantities as they stood at the time of the trade. Do not adjust for any later stock split. You also need to indicate whether a purchase covered a short position or resulted from an exercised option, and whether a sale was a short sale. Transactions connected to swaps or other derivative instruments are not eligible.4General Electric Securities Litigation. Proof of Claim and Release Form

What the Fair Fund Form Asks For

The Fair Fund form is structured similarly but adds holdings snapshots at the ends of its window:

  • Section 5: Total GE shares held as of the opening of trading on October 16, 2015. Enter zero if none.
  • Section 6: Every purchase of GE common stock from October 16, 2015 through April 16, 2018, with trade date, share count, total purchase price, and whether the purchase covered a short position or involved an exercised option.
  • Section 7: Every sale during that same period, with the same detail.
  • Section 8: Total GE shares held at the close of trading on April 16, 2018.
  • Section 9: Any prior recovery you received related to GE stock losses, including the amount and source.

The form also collects your Social Security number or tax identification number, account type, and contact information.5GE Fair Fund. GE Fair Fund Claim Form

Documentation You Must Attach

Both administrators require proof backing up every transaction on your schedule. Missing documentation for a single trade can knock that transaction out of your loss calculation.

The private settlement accepts copies of brokerage confirmation slips, brokerage account statements, or an authorized statement from your broker containing the same transactional and holding information. Send copies, not originals. Do not highlight anything on the documents you submit.4General Electric Securities Litigation. Proof of Claim and Release Form

The Fair Fund accepts a slightly wider range: monthly account statements, trade confirmation slips, year-end statements, a signed letter from your broker on firm letterhead, deposit or escrow receipts showing holdings, or equivalent proof.5GE Fair Fund. GE Fair Fund Claim Form

If your brokerage account has been closed or transferred, contact the successor firm to request historical statements. Keep copies of everything you submit.

Filing on Behalf of Someone Else

If you are filing as an executor, trustee, administrator, or other representative, the form requires you to certify that you hold legal authority to act for the beneficial owner. Attach documentation proving that authority, such as letters testamentary or a trust agreement.5GE Fair Fund. GE Fair Fund Claim Form

Where to Send the Private Settlement Claim

The private settlement form could be filed online through the settlement website or mailed to:

General Electric Securities Litigation
c/o JND Legal Administration
P.O. Box 91449
Seattle, WA 981111General Electric Securities Litigation. General Electric Securities Litigation

Mailed forms needed a postmark no later than June 20, 2025, and online submissions had to be completed by the same date. Claimants with large numbers of transactions could request electronic filing through the administrator’s electronic filing department at GEESecurities@jndla.com.4General Electric Securities Litigation. Proof of Claim and Release Form

The settlement terms generally do not provide for late claims, though the court retains discretion in unusual circumstances. If you missed the deadline, the practical route is to contact the administrator directly and ask whether any exception applies to your situation.

Who Cannot File a Claim

Certain people and entities are excluded regardless of whether they bought GE stock during the class period. For the private settlement, the excluded group covers General Electric Company itself and former CFO Jeffrey S. Bornstein, officers and directors of GE and their immediate family members, GE subsidiaries and affiliates, GE’s directors’ and officers’ liability insurance carriers, and the legal representatives, heirs, successors, and assigns of any excluded party. Anyone who submitted a request for exclusion from the class and did not opt back in by April 3, 2025 is also barred from claiming.1General Electric Securities Litigation. General Electric Securities Litigation

What Happens After You File

The administrator reviews each claim by matching your Schedule of Transactions against brokerage records and running the Plan of Allocation formula. If something does not line up — a missing trade date, unsupported transaction, or math error — you receive a Claim Status Notice explaining whether your claim is eligible, partially deficient, or denied. The notice spells out the specific reason for any deficiency and gives you a window to cure it, request reconsideration, or dispute the determination.3Securities and Exchange Commission. Proposed Plan of Distribution – General Electric Company

Respond to any deficiency notice promptly and include whatever additional brokerage documentation the administrator asked for. A cured claim goes back into the pool; an uncured claim gets rejected.

When Payments Are Expected

For the private settlement, the court granted final approval in April 2025.6General Electric Securities Litigation. FAQ Distribution of the Net Settlement Fund follows once all claims are fully processed, a timeline that can stretch well past a year from the filing deadline given the volume of participants.

For the Fair Fund, the administrator has received over 1.1 million claims and has issued Claim Status Notices to more than 400,000 claimants. Distributions are anticipated during the first half of 2027, sent as checks or electronic transfers once the court enters a distribution order.7GE Fair Fund. GE Fair Fund

Your payment will represent a pro-rata share of the available fund rather than the full amount of your loss. The administrator divides each claimant’s Recognized Claim by the total of all Recognized Claims to determine each person’s share of the Net Settlement Fund.8General Electric Securities Litigation. Notice of Proposed Settlement Whether you receive a payment at all depends on whether your transactions produce a Recognized Loss under the applicable Plan of Allocation — buying during the class period is necessary but not sufficient.