First HIPAA Settlement

Posted by admin on July 30, 2010

As we previously mentioned, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed the first HIPAA-related lawsuit. That lawsuit has now been settled, also a first. The settlement agreement [PDF] between the State of Connecticut and the defendants (Health Net) is the result of the loss of a computer disk drive that had unencrypted health information for 1.5 [...]

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Heartland Settles With Visa for $60 Million

Posted by admin on January 19, 2010

Heartland Payment Systems, which earlier in 2009 had a data breach affecting as many as 100 million people and costing the company millions in legal costs, has settled its suit with Visa. The companies have agreed on up to a $60 million settlement to be used to reimburse Visa’s issuing banks for costs associated with [...]

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