Aetna Will Pay $17 Million To End Privacy Class Suit By HIV Patients

(January 18, 2018, 11:28 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — Aetna Inc. and related entities (Aetna, collectively) have agreed to pay $17,161,200 to settle privacy claims by more than 13,400 class members whose HIV status was revealed by the insurer through an indiscreet mailing, according to a motion for preliminary approval of a class action settlement filed Jan. 16 (Andrew Beckett, et al. v. Aetna, Inc., et al., No. 17-3864, E.D. Pa.)....