Vitas Hospice Services class action overview:
- Who: Plaintiff Darlene Miakos filed a class action lawsuit against Vitas Hospice Services, LLC.
- Why: Miakos alleges Vitas failed to protect sensitive patient and employee data in a recent data breach.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Florida federal court.
A new class action lawsuit alleges Vitas Hospice Services failed to protect sensitive patient and employee data in a recent data breach.
Plaintiff Darlene Miakos filed the class action complaint against Vitas Hospice Services, L.L.C. on Nov. 24 in a Florida federal court, alleging violations of state and federal data privacy laws.
Vitas provides hospice care and other health care services nationwide, storing highly sensitive personal identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) about its current and former patients and employees, the lawsuit says.
However, Miakos alleges that Vitas lost control over that data when cybercriminals infiltrated its computer systems in a hospice data breach.
According to the lawsuit, the breach occurred between Sept. 21 and Oct. 27, 2025, but Vitas only discovered it on Oct. 24, 2025.
Miakos claims that Vitas failed to adequately train its employees on cybersecurity and failed to maintain reasonable security safeguards or protocols to protect the data, leaving it vulnerable to cybercriminals.
Vitas failed to notify about data breach in a timely manner, lawsuit says
The lawsuit alleges that Vitas’s failures placed the private information of its patients and employees in a vulnerable position, rendering them easy targets for cybercriminals.
The hospice breach exposed the private information of Miakos and other class members to cybercriminals, causing numerous injuries and significant damages, the lawsuit says.
Miakos claims that Vitas failed to notify the affected individuals promptly, depriving them of the opportunity to try to mitigate their injuries in a timely manner.
The class action lawsuit seeks to represent anyone in the United States whose private information was compromised in the Vitas Hospice Services class action data breach discovered by Vitas in October 2025.
It alleges violations of state and federal data privacy laws, negligence, breach of implied contract, invasion of privacy, unjust enrichment, and breach of fiduciary duty.
Miakos is seeking certification of the class action, damages, restitution, and injunctive relief.
Recently, a Connecticut judge gave preliminary approval to a $18M class action settlement between Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. and individuals affected by a March 2025 data breach.
What do you think of the allegations made in this Vitas data breach class action lawsuit? Let us know in the comments.
The plaintiff is represented by Jeff Ostrow and Andrew Hausdorff of Kopelowitz Ostrow P.A.
The Vitas Hospice Services class action lawsuit is Miakos v. Vitas Hospice Services, L.L.C., Case No. 1:25-cv-25490-XXXX, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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My family dr contacted Vitas due to my crippling cyst on lower spine including all my other health problems that I been living with for yrs. Last Nov I weighed 123 pounds couldn’t eat my pain was 24/7 severe symptoms I didn’t want to go on anymore. Vitas knocked on my door told me what do you have to loose, so I agree was inpatient for almost 1 week then outpatient nurses coming to my home once a week to fill medication. They put me steroids that made me gain way to much it is now putting more pressure on spine having trouble loosing weight. Between then and now my condition is worsening with the CSF leak lower spine and other health conditions I’m in severe pain. For over 5 months the nurse I had was great he understood what the cyst alone dose to a human but he left for many reasons the same reasons I’m still dealing with in-house and getting a different nurse every week since. They assigned one nurse that told me I wasn’t dying fast enough she was questioning my diagnosis which I do agree should have been changed from autoimmune disease to my cysts and the other diagnosises. They next time I saw her she said doctor is taking me of the liquid morphine and putting me on pill form I said we tried that before didn’t work but I said ok we try again the next thing that happened the nurse and the doctor knocking on my door without notice whatsoever we talked he put me back on Liquid morphine but instead of changing it to what it was 2 weeks before to 0.25 ever 6hr that is not even close to helping my pain it was better with the pills unless he would of put the dose the way I had it 1ml every 2 hour. That Tuesday with new nurse and Dr she ordered my overnight med’s waiting all day for FedEx nothing I texted my new nurse she forgot to place it and said sorry then Thursday came nothing I got it on Friday 4 days later. All this going on after I got my data breach in mail I live alone and been thru allot the last 15 yrs to have to worry about my personal inf to be out there is super stressful and scary especially for patients like us who’s disease is attacking not just the body but alot the brain!!! The CSF leak is causing me to have to use a catheter and sever symptoms with dizziness headaches ringing in the ears blurred vision nausea and that’s not including my other heath conditions. My brain it’s hard for me to talk words don’t come out the way I mean them, forgetting more ect. Then there’s the stress I’m on disability my only income for over 13 yrs since my divorce I have been so careful paying my bills to get my credit score up. This Dada breach would and is a disaster when ur alone. Then the doctor to come without letting me know made me unprepared for all the things I wanted say and ask. He downed my health issues he said he didn’t have any dr notes when I was told from another doctor that he knows everything about my health issues read all my file now this dr tells me he doesn’t see any of it. I have him the number to dr in Gainesville who found my pseudomeningocele cysts on lower spine. Then he ask who my family dr is (I was shocked) he is the one who contacted vitas and the reason why they come knocking on my door. If you have more questions pls call if I don’t answer pls leave a message I’ll call back I get scam calls all day long since the data breach. Thank you so much