Pennsylvania High Court: Employers Have Duty To Protect Personal Information

Mealey's (November 27, 2018, 3:57 PM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Nov. 21 found that an employer has a duty to protect any personally identifiable information (PII) that it collects from its employees, reversing the dismissal of a putative class of hospital employees’ negligence claim over the theft of their information after a breach of their employer’s network (Barbara A. Dittman, et al. v. UPMC, et al., No. 43 WAP 2017, Pa. Sup., 2018 Pa. LEXIS 6051)....