Ransomware Attack Could Be One Of 2022’s Biggest Health Care Breaches A major ransomware attack on a little-known debt collection firm that serves hundreds of hospitals and medical facilities across the U.S. could be one of the biggest data breaches of personal and health information this year. The Greeley Colorado-based Professional Finance Company, known as…
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A wholly-owned subsidiary of the New York-based Hearst Health network, MCG Health is facing a proposed class action seeking to hold it accountable for failing to properly secure patients’ personally identifiable information (PII) and for failing to inform the impacted individuals quicker than the almost 3 months it took. MCG Health, a Seattle based software…
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A class action complaint was recently filed against FCA US and its parent Stellantis in US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on behalf of owners and lessees of model years 2017-2018 Ram 2500/3500 trucks. The lawsuit alleges that the Automatic Braking System (“ABS”) and Hydraulic Control Unit (“HCU”) modules used in these…
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Health Care Data Breach Exposes Personal Information Of Two Million People Two million people who sought care at 56 Shields Health Care Group partners across the New England region may have had their personal data exposed after the company’s network server was breached in March. This breach is the largest of the year in healthcare,…
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Lakeview Loan Servicing, the fourth largest U.S. mortgage loan servicer, recently suffered a data breach that exposed the Personal Identifying Information (PII) of over 2.5 million clients to the dark web. According to a lawsuit, hackers gained access to Lakeviews’ servers on or about October 27, 2021 but Lakeview wasn’t aware of the access until…
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Metformin use by men in the three-month period before they conceived a child was linked to a 40% higher risk of birth defects in the offspring, according to a study published Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. Metformin is a first-line drug in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. The research, which was…
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A lawsuit was recently filed against American Honda Motor Co. and Honda Motor Company Ltd. (“Honda”) on behalf of current and former Honda vehicle owners and lessees of the following model years equipped with the “Earth Dreams” 1.5 liter direct injection engines.(“class vehicles”) – 2019-2021 Honda CR-V; 2019-2021 Honda Civic; 2018-2021 Honda Accord. The complaint…
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is again under scrutiny by federal regulators and lawmakers. And yet again its due to the dangerous electrical defect in its Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans. According to a recent lawsuit, these hybrid vehicles are prone to spontaneously ignite, catch fire and explode – even when parked unattended with the ignition switched…
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Abbott Laboratories is facing increasing scrutiny from federal regulators, lawmakers and parents, as new information is emerging that its powdered infant formula products sold under the Similac brand, contain harmful heavy metals known to cause autism, severe attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and/or brain development issues. As such these products pose a long-term health risk to humans…
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Plaintiffs’ attorneys involved in the federal multidistrict litigation (MDL) for all Zantac cancer lawsuits filed throughout the federal court system have notified the Court that they only intend to move forward with expert support that establishes five different types of cancer may be caused by Zantac, including bladder cancer, esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, liver cancer…
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