Meta Faces Legal Firestorm As Hospitals Cite Its Pixel Tool In Health Data Breaches
Two health systems have become the latest healthcare organizations to name a web tracking tool created by Meta (formerly Facebook) as...
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Lurie Children’s Hospital Resolves Healthcare Data Breach Lawsuit
Lurie Children’s Hospital agreed to implement additional security measures to settle a healthcare data breach lawsuit. Chicago-based Lurie Children’s Hospital settled...
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Court finds murdered man’s life policy was valid, again
An Ontario appeal court upheld a lower court’s ruling that an insurer was wrong to deny a $500,000 life insurance payout...
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Insurer Deemed to Waive Right to Rescind but Commingling Exclusion Bars Coverage for Claims Against “Innocent” Insureds
Applying New Mexico law, the Tenth Circuit has held that an insurer that waits over a year to seek rescission after...
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Logan Health agrees to $4.3M settlement after 2021 health data breach
Logan Health Medical Center has reached a $4.3 million settlement with the 213,543 patients and employees whose personal and protected health...
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Martin’s Point Health Care Inc. to Pay $22,485,000 to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations
Martin’s Point Health Care Inc. (Martin’s Point), headquartered in Portland, Maine, has agreed to pay $22,485,000 to resolve allegations that it...
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Private health data breach in Isle of Man to be dealt within 3 months, officials say
An organisation set up to focus on the delivery of health and social care on the Isle of Man has been...
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Objection denied in Ellwood City Medical Center fraud case
An objection was overruled Thursday in the case of a reported Medicare fraud scheme out of the former Ellwood City Medical...
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CommonSpirit faces another lawsuit for data breach
A class action lawsuit, filed Jan. 13, accuses Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health of failing to protect patients’ personal information from a recent...
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Wife to pay $700,000 to settle federal claim against Rye health care fraudster
Rye eye surgeon Ameet Goyal was a “broken and humbled” man before he was sentenced to prison last year for health...
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