$6 Million Mednax Settlement Resolves Data Breach Lawsuit
Rumely et al. v. Mednax, Inc. et al.
Filed: January 27, 2021 ◆§ 3:21-cv-00152
Mednax, Inc. and Pediatrix Medical Group face a proposed class action over a June 2020 data breach that reportedly affected nearly 1.3 million patients.
California
Mednax has agreed to pay $6 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit filed over a June 2020 data breach that reportedly impacted 2.7 million people.
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The Mednax data breach settlement, which received final approval from the court on October 4, 2024, covers anyone in the United States who was notified around December 2020 or January 2021 that their personal information may have been involved in the cybersecurity incident.
The official settlement website can be found at MednaxAASettlement.com.
Class members had until September 9, 2024 to file a claim form for settlement benefits.
Related Reading: Mednax, Pediatrix Hit with Class Action Over June 2020 Data Breach Affecting Nearly 1.3M Patients
Covered individuals who filed a valid, timely claim were eligible to receive $30 for each hour they spent addressing issues relating to the data breach, with a cap of 14 hours. Class members could have also submitted a claim for reimbursement of up to $5,000 in documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred as a result of the Mednax cybersecurity incident. Finally, class members could have filed a claim to receive three years of medical fraud monitoring and medical fraud protection services.
According to the site, class members will receive their settlement benefits after any appeals are resolved, which can take “perhaps more than a year.”
The data breach lawsuit was filed against Mednax—which now does business as Pediatrix—and its former subsidiary, American Anesthesiology. According to the multidistrict litigation, the defendants failed to sufficiently protect patients’ private information from hackers when they infiltrated certain Microsoft Office 365-hosted business email accounts in June 2020.
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