Abraham Jewett  |  October 12, 2022

Category: Data Breach

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Physicians Business Office data breach class action lawsuit overview:

  • Who: Hunter Freeland filed a class action lawsuit against Physician’s Business Office Inc. 
  • Why: Freeland claims Physician’s Business Office is responsible for a data breach discovered in April that may have affected nearly 200,000 individuals. 
  • Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in West Virginia federal court. 

Physician’s Business Office failed to properly secure and safeguard the protected health and personally identifiable information of individuals in its systems during a data breach discovered earlier this year, a new class action lawsuit alleges. 

Plaintiff Hunter Freeland claims a data breach affecting Physician’s Business Office exposed information such as full names, home addresses, Social Security Numbers, and medical treatment and diagnosis info, among other things. 

Freeland argues Physician’s Business Office is responsible for the data breach—which he says affected nearly 200,000 consumers—due to its allegedly “inadequately protected network servers.” 

“With this action, Representative Plaintiff seeks to hold Defendant responsible for the harms it caused and will continue to cause Representative Plaintiff and at least 196,573 other similarly situated persons,” states the Physician Business Office class action. 

Freeland wants to represent a nationwide class and West Virginia subclass of individuals who had their personal health or identifiable information exposed by an unauthorized third party during the Physician’s Business Office data breach. 

Physician’s Business Office accused of waiting months to disclose data breach

Physician’s Business Office waited until September to inform the public about the data breach, despite it allegedly discovering that it occurred in April, the Physician’s Business Office class action alleges. 

Freeland claims Physician’s Business Office is guilty of negligence, unjust enrichment, breach of confidence, and invasion of privacy, among other things. 

Plaintiff is demanding a jury trial and requesting declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of actual, consequential, and nominal damages for himself and all class members. 

In August, Novant Health sent 1.3 million notification letters to its patients warning them that their private health information may have been given to Meta through a tracking tool linked back to Facebook. 

Has your private health or personally identifiable information been exposed in a data breach? Let us know in the comments! 

The plaintiff is represented by Cody Bolce of Cole & Van Note, and William Tano and Cheryl Fisher of Tiano O’Dell. 

The class action lawsuit is Freeland v. Physician’s Business Office, Inc., Case No. 2:22-cv-00431, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia.


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3 thoughts onPhysician’s Business Office data breach class action alleges company exposed protected health information

  1. Paul Ritchey says:

    We look forward to hearing from the law firm handling this class action lawsuit.

  2. Paul Ritchey says:

    Physicians billing data breach.Me and my wife Dianna Ritchey recieved letters from them indicating that are information from our W.V. Doctor was breached.

  3. Heather says:

    Add me

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