Via Courthouse News, a potential class action lawsuit against Keystone Mercy Health Plan and Amerihealth Mercy Health Plan over a data breach last year has been sent back to state court – over the arguments of the insurers being sued.
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Why should the health plan offer credit monitoring in this case? (UPDATED)
I was reading yet another press release about an incident involving protected health information. This one was from Independence Blue Cross in Philadelphia. Let me start by quoting the relevant part and then I’ll meet you on the other side: On May 8, 2020, the Independence Blue Cross Privacy Office was notified that certain member information…
PA: Independence Blue Cross and subsidiaries notifying members whose PHI was mistakenly exposed on public web site
John George reports: Independence Blue Cross and its subsidiaries AmeriHealth HMO and AmeriHealth Insurance Co. of New Jersey have alerted certain members of a recent incident involving a potential privacy issue related to protected health information. […] “We quickly launched an investigation to determine the nature and scope of this incident, working with a leading…
PA Court Rejects Healthcare Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit
Elizabeth Snell reports an update to a 2010 breach previously covered on this site: The Pennsylvania Superior Court recently dismissed claims in a healthcare data breach class action lawsuit, explaining that the trial court needs to review the plaintiff’s claim under the Uniform Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (UTPCPL). In the case Baum v. Keystone Mercy Health…
PA: Old fashioned data breach: Independence Blue Cross paper records tossed in trash
Harold Brubaker reports: Independence Blue Cross on Friday disclosed a data breach affecting 12,500 of its more than 2.5 million members. Unlike most high-profile cases of personal data loss, such as the one at Target stores last year affecting 70 million people, the IBC case did not involve computers. The incident happened in October, when…
PA: 2 charged in $290,000 identity theft scheme (updated)
Michael Hinkelman reports: Two Philadelphia men, including an employee of a health insurance company, were charged today with stealing the identities of 86 people in a scheme that netted them nearly $290,000, federal authorities said. An indictment alleges that Kenneth C. Osbourne, Jr., 35, used his position as a customer service representative at AmeriHealth Administrators,…