Horizon data breach class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: A proposed class of Horizon Actuarial Services retirement plan participants have filed a memorandum in opposition of the company’s motion to dismiss their complaint.
- Why: The proposed class argues Horizon failed to protect their personally identifiable information during a November 2021 data breach.
- Where: The class action lawsuit was filed in Georgia federal court.
A group of Horizon Actuarial Services retirement plan participants have urged a judge not to dismiss their claims the company failed to protect their personally identifiable information during a November 2021 data breach.
The proposed class of more than 2 million Horizon retirement plan participants argue that the data breach was “easily foreseeable” and that it has injured them both emotionally and financially.
The group claim in their complaint—which was consolidated in January—that Horizon “failed abysmally” to protect personally identifiable information that the company “collected and profited from” and now “takes no responsibility for the data breach” having occurred.
“Defendant takes no responsibility for the data breach and instead complains that it was a ‘historically traumatic and expensive event’ for Horizon,” states the plan participants’ memorandum in opposition of Horizon’s motion to dismiss. “Defendant is not the victim here.”
The proposed class of Horizon retirement plan participants also claim the company failed to notify them that a data breach had occurred for almost eight months, time they argue could have been used to try and mitigate any potential harm.
Proposed class argue Horizon is attempting to ‘cherry pick’ laws
Horizon is also attempting to “cherry pick the laws of states that favor its position” in order to try and escape certain claims, the retirement plan participants allege.
The proposed class also filed a motion for leave to file an amended complaint so that they can “further clarify the allegations” and/or “modify or add counts or claims.”
“Such amendment will prevent duplicative litigation, inefficiency, and the waste of judicial resources and should be allowed pursuant to the liberal standard applicable to such amendments,” states the motion to amend.
Last month, T-Mobile agreed to pay $350 million in order to resolve claims that the company failed to protect the data of 76 million Americans during a data breach disclosed in August 2021.
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The plaintiffs are represented by MaryBeth V. Gibson and N. Nickolas Jackson of The Finley Firm PC, Terence R. Coates of Markovits Stock & Demarco LLC, Gary M. Klinger of Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillipps Grossman PLLC, and Gregory Haroutunian and Michael Anderson Berry of Arnold Law Firm.
The Horizon data breach class action lawsuit is Sherwood, et al. v. Horizon Actuarial Services, LLC, Case No. 1:22-cv-01495, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
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4 thoughts onRetirement plan participants fight toss of Horizon data breach class action
Strangely received notice of Horizon Data Class Action Settlement and never worked for any of the companies listed. However, was employed decades ago in a job in which employees had the right to not join the union affiliated with it. So does that mean the company in cahoots with the union gave those of us who chose to not join the union all of our personal information? Seems so. Despite investigations into the matter, I get no answers. The Settlement Administrator number to call, 877-395-9210, does not allow connection to a live person who can further help answer questions—like how to Opt Out as there’s no form available.
The old farts in government who preach more than govern, give tax breaks to the rich and truly believe a former president, who had amassed over 3,000 litigation suits before he became leader of the Magats, do nothing to protect American citizens’ privacy. These are the imbeciles ignorant partisan constituents vote in because they’re too lazy to research, fact check who they’re voting for; instead, blindly voting for the party not for the most qualified person.
At this point, most U.S. consumer information has been bought and sold via data brokers. Most large corporations have been hacked and each time millions of people are affected. Again, our government needs to step up, strengthen data protection, enforce privacy laws and put data brokers out of business.
I’m a retired Major League Baseball player of 10 years. I live in Texas The MLB Players Association put together a group to make decisions on my Retirement income. The MLB Benefit Plan. They hired Horizon Acturial to protect our Name , SS numbers, addresses, email, and all personal information they needed not just of mine but my entire family’s information. Not once did they contact me about Horizon Acturial’s breech of our personal information including phone numbers. In saying all that I had a fraudulent Tax return filed on me as did my youngest of 3 son’s. I did not receive any notification of this November 11th and 12th data breach until December of 2023. I only had 2 options either get in a settlement class and get possibly 5000 dollars and the notification came from the Law firm holding the 8.7 million dollars out of California. . The card was a 5 by 7 green card stating that the reason your receiving this notification is your data was breached. Now I had been fighting with my bank for a year and a half over fraudulent charges. Had I have been made aware of this sooner my bank would have been more inclusive to let me go back all the way to the breach date but because I did NOT have any information of a data breach They would only allow me to dispute charges for the past 3 months. What a crock of cow Pattie’s.
It is now going into June of 2023 and it seems like there is no concern about the Horizon data breach? Am I really the only (1) comment result from the news article? Well, anyway, I am definitely still checking the three free credit reports dot gov. every week. I just can’t believe this happened.
My name is Judy M. Latham and I was a member of the UFCW Unions and Employers Benefits Pension Department. At the time , there was a local Chapter in Birmingham. UFCW Local 1657(Bruno’s Supermarkets, Inc.) I did get in touch with the Pension Office in Atlanta and they still had my name, social security number, and date of birth on file at the time of the Data incident. So, I have been checking on the Kroll Monitoring Service every week since May 19, 2022. Also, checking in with the three Credit Reporting Bureaus. I think that the monitoring will go on a year? That year is coming up quickly. Has any decisions been made? Will there be an answer before the year has come and gone? Really and truly, I HAVE to check my Credit Report and Kroll Monitoring EVERY week. It has become more of a habit (chore) that I don’t want to do.