Litigation and legal developments concerning data breaches.
Healthcare providers wrestling with the legal fallout of cyber-attacks just received a fresh reminder from the District of Arizona: traditional tort and contract theories remain difficult to sustain after a breach, but consumer-fraud statutes can keep a case alive. In Johnson v. Yuma Regional Medical Center, fourteen patients sued the hospital after a ransomware incident exposed […]
“U.S. lawyers filed 1,488 class-action lawsuits related to data breaches in 2024, up from 1,320 in 2023 and just 604 in 2022.” The Wall Street Journal reports: A growing number of personal injury lawyers are adding data-breach lawsuits to caseloads, alongside traffic accidents, medical malpractice and dog bites. The upswing is being fueled by a […]
Becker’s Health IT reports that UnitedHealth Group’s allegedly aggressive approach to securing repayment of loans made to providers following their massive data breach now has two senators demanding some answers: Two U.S. senators are pressing UnitedHealth Group for answers on what they deemed “predatory” tactics from the company in seeking loan repayments from healthcare providers […]
USA Herald reports: Tech conglomerate Fortive Corp. has agreed to a $3 million settlement to resolve a sweeping class action after two ransomware attacks in 2023 exposed the personal data of more than 34,000 individuals, according to a Washington federal judge’s preliminary approval. U.S. District Judge Richard A. Jones, presiding in Seattle, signed off Thursday on the […]
A month after it announced a data breach that affected more than 1.4 million of its patients, a Richmond, Virginia medical practice is dealing with a wave of lawsuits. Richmond BizSense reports: Radiology Associates of Richmond has been hit with at least 10 lawsuits filed in federal court in recent weeks by plaintiffs claiming to […]
Settlement Marks OCR’s 15th Ransomware Enforcement Action and 10th Enforcement Action in OCR’s Risk Analysis Initiative Source: HHS
The Register reports: Microsoft-owned talk-to-text outfit Nuance has agreed to cough up $8.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit over the sprawling MOVEit Transfer mega-breach – although it admits no liability. The proposed deal [PDF], filed in a Massachusetts federal court last week, would draw a line under litigation brought by individuals who claimed that the company failed […]
CyberScoop reports: A federal court has upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s authority to impose stricter data breach notification regulations on the telecom sector, including requirements that the industry notifies customers when their personally identifiable information is exposed in a hack. In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the FCC […]
Kroll Settlement Administration has issued a press release about the settlement in litigation stemming from AT&T data breaches in 2024.
There is a settlement in litigation stemming from a breach reported last year that affected more than three dozen Cencora/Lash Group clients, and more than 1.4 million patients at last public count. The HIPAA Journal now reports: Cencora & The Lash Group have agreed to pay $40 million to settle class action data breach litigation […]
