$2.5 Million Eskenazi Health Settlement Resolves Data Breach Class Action Lawsuit

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The Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County, which does business as Eskenazi Health, has agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit filed over a May 2021 data breach that reportedly impacted 160,000 patients and employees.

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The Eskenazi Health data breach settlement covers anyone who received notice that their personal information was posted on the dark web by cybercriminals as a result of the data incident. Data breach notices were sent to affected individuals around November 11, 2021, court documents say.

The official settlement website can be found at EskenaziDataSettlement.com.

Class members have until January 27, 2025 to file a claim form for settlement benefits. You can submit a claim form online by heading to this page and entering your class member ID located in the settlement notice you should have received.

Class members who file a valid, timely claim can receive reimbursement of up to $5,000 in out-of-pocket expenses incurred as a result of the Eskenazi Health data breach. Claimants are also eligible to get $20 for each hour they spent addressing issues relating to the data breach, with a cap of four hours.

Finally, covered individuals can submit a claim to receive a pro-rated cash payment, as well as three years of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection services.

The deal received final approval from the court on November 4, 2024. Class members will receive their settlement benefits after any appeals are resolved, which can take “perhaps more than a year,” the settlement site says.

Several class action lawsuits were filed in 2021 seeking to hold Eskenazi Health liable for the unauthorized access and disclosure of individuals’ private information, including names, ages, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, medical information and more. These suits were consolidated in April 2022 to form a single complaint against the Indiana healthcare system.

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