Privacy & Data Security

On September 7, 2022, Judge James V. Selna of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, […]

On January 30, 2020, Judge Edmund Sargus, of the United States Court for the Southern District of Ohio, granted final approval to a $4.4 million settlement that will be distributed to 4,500 patients in Ohio who claimed that CVS/Caremark and its business affiliates mishandled and wrongfully disclosed their HIV status in connection with a mass mailing that took place in the summer of 2017.

On November 7, 2019, Judge Madeline Cox Arleo of the U.S. District Court in New Jersey has appointed Laurence D. King to the steering committee to assist with the management and prosecution of a sprawling multi-district litigation arising out of a medical records data breach involving a number of major laboratory companies, including Quest Diagnostics, LabCorp, CareCentrix, and Sunrise Medical Labs, among others.

On October 7, 2019, Judge Edmond E. Chang, of the United States Court for the Northern District of Illinois, granted final approval to a $3 million settlement that will be distributed to workers throughout the United States who claimed that ComplyRight mishandled their personal information in connection with a data breach in Spring 2018.

On May 16, 2018, Kaplan Fox brought a proposed class action lawsuit against CVS/Caremark and its affiliates in federal court in Columbus, Ohio. The lawsuit alleges that CVS/Caremark and its business partners ran afoul of state and federal privacy laws by sending a mailing to 6,000 patients participating in a prescription drug program for the treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS in Ohio.

In a precedential ruling, a federal appeals court has revived a proposed medical data privacy class action against Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey that alleges Horizon failed to secure sensitive personal information as required by federal statute.

On November 18, 2016, federal court Judge Mary Scriven appointed Kaplan Fox to the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee to represent 21st Century Oncology patients impacted by the medical data breach announced earlier this year.