Check out this podcast discussion on the rise in privacy class actions brought by plaintiffs under state law—and how the courts are reacting to these causes of action. Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Breach Litigation: Key Laws and Considerations Learn more about the key legal ...
UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people’s personal data fromlast month’s hack of Change Healthcare, its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to come. In a motion filed late on Tuesday...
A January breach at Port Washington-based Arden Claims Service, an administrator of class-action settlements, affected around 50,000 people, making it the fifth-largest of a New York-based company in the first half of the year. The exposed data included names and Social Security numbers, accor...
Meanwhile, Amazon was penalized $877 million for breaches of GDPR cookie rules,T-Mobile agreed to pay $350 millionto settle a consolidated class-action lawsuit following a data breach from early 2021, andGoogle agreed to pay $60 millionin penalties for misleading Australians users about obtaining ...
customers. Under this order, the company is permanently prohibited from sharing users’ health information with advertisers. The order also marked the first time the FTC has brought an enforcement action under the Health Breach Notification Rule (HBNR). The FTC is also considering amendments to ...
For example, in January 2024, Massachusetts-based ReproSource Fertility Diagnosticsreached a $1.25 million settlementto resolve claims of negligence tied to a 2021 data breach. Also, in 2024, Novant Health agreed to pay $6.6 million tosettle a class action lawsuitsurrounding improper disclosures of...
Breach victims may also choose to opt out of the settlement. If more than 1,500 victims opt out, Scripps would have the option to nullify the settlement agreement, according to the settlement agreement.Ransomware AttackThe class action lawsuit was filed after Scripps suffered a data breach tied...
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee • December 17, 2024 UnitedHealth Group is facing scores of proposed class action lawsuits involving the massively disruptive cyberattack and mega data breach at its Change Healthcare IT services unit this year. But now the company faces the first in what will likely ...
A Ticketmaster data breach class action lawsuit seeks to represent 560 million customers whose personal data was stolen and sold on the Dark Web.
TJX, Reed Elsevier data breach cases end in settlements.(LEGISLATION)Bell, Lauren