U.S. Settlement, Claim & Enforcement Records — Cross-Source Aggregated Dataset (2000–2025)

A cross-source aggregation of 3,824,813 settlement, claim, and enforcement records from 14 U.S. public databases (2000–2025), spanning medical malpractice, the federal Treasury Judgment Fund, municipal claims, regulatory penalties, and consumer-protection settlements. This release provides four aggregate CSV tables: overall summary, by source, by year, and by state. All underlying data is published by U.S. government bodies; this dataset provides the processed cross-source aggregations used in the Settlement Insight research study. Key findings: Tracked payouts total $209 billion across the 12 sources with reliable dollar amounts. Annual settlement dollars peaked in 2020–2021 (~$12.7B/yr) versus ~$4.2B/yr in the early 2000s. Record volume is dominated by high-frequency regulatory penalties (mine-safety citations), while dollar volume is concentrated in medical malpractice and federal payments. Data-quality note: Two sources are excluded from all dollar totals — DOJ press-release figures (text-extracted from headlines, unreliable) and Phoenix claim values (placeholder/sentinel figures). Their record counts are retained. Amounts are nominal (not inflation-adjusted). Full analysis: https://settlementinsight.com/research/settlement-trends