UnitedHealthcare data breach class action lawsuit overview:
- Who: Douglas Castell filed a class action lawsuit against Change Healthcare Inc., UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, UnitedHealthcare Inc. and Optum Inc.
- Why: Castell claims UnitedHealth and its subsidiary Change failed to secure the personal identifiable information and protected health information of consumers during a February data breach.
- Where: The Optum data breach class action lawsuit was filed in Tennessee federal court.
UnitedHealthcare failed to secure the personal identifiable information and protected health information of consumers during a data breach caused by a ransomware attack against its subsidiary Change Healthcare in February, a new UnitedHealthcare data breach class action lawsuit alleges.
Plaintiff Douglas Castell’s class action lawsuit claims UnitedHealthcare and Change failed to take “reasonable, timely and appropriate” measures to protect against the “foreseeable, catastrophic cyberattack.”
“As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ failures, Plaintiff and the Class Members have suffered and will indefinitely suffer serious injury,” the Change Healthcare data breach class action states.
Castell wants to represent a class of individuals who had their private information exposed in the data breach, a class of individuals who were prevented from using manufacturer savings card programs as a result of the data breach and a subclass of individuals whose prescriptions were not timely filled or refilled as a result of the data breach.
Class action claims Optum data breach was ‘entirely foreseeable and avoidable’
Ransomware group ALPHV/BlackCat has taken responsibility for the cyber attack, according to the class action lawsuit, which argues both UnitedHealth and Change should have been able to anticipate the incident.
“The attack was entirely foreseeable and avoidable,” the UnitedHealthcare data breach class action states.
Castell claims UnitedHealthcare and Change are guilty of unjust enrichment, negligent failure to warn, negligent undertaking, negligence per se and negligence.
The plaintiff demands a jury trial and requests declaratory and injunctive relief along with an award of actual, statutory, consequential, punitive, exemplary and nominal damages for himself and all class members.
Multiple class action lawsuits have already been filed against Change in the wake of the data breach, with consumers similarly arguing the company failed to protect their private information during the incident.
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The plaintiff is represented by John T. Spragens of Spragens Law PLC and Jennifer R. Scullion, Christopher L. Ayers, Justin M. Smigelsky and Nigel Halliday of Seeger Weiss LLP.
The UnitedHealthcare data breach class action lawsuit is Castell, et al. v. Change Healthcare Inc., et al., Case No. 3:24-cv-00339, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
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