From Top Class Actions, news of a settlement involving insurance brokerage firm Arthur J. Gallagher & Co:
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. agreed to a $21 million class action lawsuit settlement to resolve claims it failed to prevent a 2020 data breach that compromised sensitive employee and client information.
The Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. settlement benefits individuals who received a data breach notification letter informing them a Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. data breach may have compromised their information between June 3-Sept. 26, 2020.
Plaintiffs in the data breach class action lawsuit accused Gallagher of failing to protect their information from the breach. The Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. breach reportedly compromised sensitive personal information, such as Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, financial account information, medical data and more.
In 2021, the firm filed a number of reports and updates with the Maine Attorney General’s Office on behalf of clients, with the reports indicating that more than one million consumers were affected.
The case is In re: Arthur J. Gallagher Data Breach Litigation, Case No. 1:22-cv-00137, in the U.S. District Court Judge of the Northern District of Illinois. The official settlement website is AJGDataSettlement.com.
