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On May 4, 2020, Californians for Consumer Privacy (the group behind the ballot initiative that inspired the CCPA) announced that it had collected over 900,000 signatures to qualify the California Privacy Rights Act for the November 2020 ballot.
Continue Reading BREAKING: Californians for Consumer Privacy Introduces California Privacy Rights Act for November 2020 Ballot

On July 11, 2019, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced that his office had entered into a consent decree and $10 million settlement with Premera Blue Cross (“Premera”) that stems from a 2014-2015 breach that affected more than 11 million individuals. The settlement, which includes a payment of roughly $5.4 million to Washington state and $4.6 million to a coalition of 29 other state Attorneys General (the “Multistate AGs”), is one of the largest ever for a breach involving protected health information (“PHI”) and comes just one month after another notable HIPAA settlement involving a similar coalition of state AGs.
Continue Reading Washington AG Settles with Premera on Behalf of Multistate Coalition

Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich recently announced a settlement with healthcare software provider Medical Informatics Engineering Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary NoMoreClipboard, LLC. This blog entry provides an overview of the case.
Continue Reading First-of-its-Kind Multistate Litigation Involving HIPAA-Related Data Breach Reaches 900,000 Dollar Settlement

On November 21, 2018, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania found that a putative class action against UPMC by current and former employees should not have been dismissed. Employers have common law duty to use reasonable care to safeguard its employees’ sensitive personal information that it stores on Internet-accessible computer systems, and Pennsylvania’s economic loss doctrine did not bar the plaintiffs’ negligence claim.
Continue Reading Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Ruling on Common Law Duty to Protect Electronic Employee Data