Hospital Employees Say Economic-Loss Doctrine Permits Data-Breach Damages Claims

(January 29, 2018, 12:45 PM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — Employees of a Pennsylvania hospital whose personally identifiable information (PII) was stolen in a 2014 data breach argue in a Dec. 28 brief to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that the state’s economic-loss doctrine does not bar their negligence claim against the hospital or related damages (Barbara A. Dittman, et al. v. UPMC, et al., No. 43 WAP 2017, Pa. Sup.)....