3rd Circuit Revives FCRA Suit Over Theft Of Laptops Containing Customer Data

Mealey's (January 24, 2017, 2:16 PM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority on Jan. 20 found that the plaintiffs in a putative class action against their health care provider sufficiently alleged a concrete injury under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) in alleging the dissemination of their personally identifiable information (PII) due to a theft of laptops, leading the majority to vacate a trial court’s dismissal of the suit for lack of standing under Article III of the U.S. Constitution (In Re Horizon Healthcare Services Inc. Data Breach Litigation, No. 15-2309, 3rd Cir.; 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 1019)....