Privacy Claims Over Medical Billing Firm’s Data Breach Mostly Survive Dismissal

Mealey's (November 24, 2020, 6:00 PM EST) -- SAN DIEGO — Three consumers who claim that their protected health information (PHI) was compromised by a billing services provider’s lax data security sufficiently pleaded most of their putative class privacy claims, a California federal judge ruled Nov. 19, largely denying the company’s motion to dismiss (Vicki Stasi, et al. v. Inmediata Health Group Corp., No. 19-2353, S.D. Calif., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 217097)....