February 28, 2014
A Florida federal judge on Friday gave final approval to a $3 million data breach class action settlement with health insurance company AvMed Inc. that, for the first time, allows plaintiffs who did not suffer identity theft to claim funds.
January 01, 2014
While a pair of challenges to the Federal Trade Commission's authority to regulate data security are likely to hog the spotlight in 2014, attorneys say cases against companies such as Hulu LLC, the Los Angeles Lakers and Google Inc. will also have a significant impact by testing the strength of dated privacy statutes and novel injury theories.
October 28, 2013
Health coverage company AvMed Inc. last week reached a $3 million data breach settlement that for the first time allows plaintiffs who did not suffer identity theft to claim funds, a groundbreaking pact attorneys say is likely to serve as a template for other plaintiffs in class actions over data breaches.
October 22, 2013
Health care company AvMed Inc. will pay $3 million to settle a class action in Florida federal court accusing it of maintaining shoddy data security safeguards that led to the 2009 theft of laptop computers with the personal information of 1.2 million customers, according to papers filed Monday.
September 06, 2013
Health care company AvMed Inc. has agreed to settle a putative class action in Florida federal court accusing it of maintaining shoddy data security safeguards that led to the 2009 theft of laptop computers containing the personal information of 1.2 million customers, the parties announced Tuesday.
November 15, 2012
A Florida federal judge on Thursday refused to dismiss class allegations from a suit claiming AvMed Inc.'s poor data privacy safeguards led to the theft of two unencrypted laptops containing personal data of 1.2 million customers, calling the health insurer's request premature.
October 24, 2012
AvMed Inc. urged a Florida federal court Tuesday to strike class allegations from a suit accusing the health insurer of poor data privacy safeguards, arguing that precautions the plaintiffs took to protect themselves from identity theft are atypical of the 1.2 million alleged victims they seek to represent.