United States:
Health Insurer Agrees To Largest Settlement Of A Health Data Breach
04 January 2019
by
Jeremy S. Close
,
Meredith Collier
,
David R. Coogan
,
Jennifer Everett
,
Robert Levent Hergüner
,
Richard Johnson
,
Laura Lim
,
Christopher Markham
,
Daniel McLoon
,
Mary Alexander Myers
,
Mauricio Paez
and
Nicole Perry
Jones Day
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On October 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Office for Civil Rights ("OCR") announced that a health insurance company
agreed to pay $16 million and implement a corrective action plan to
settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act ("HIPAA") related to a data breach.
The company discovered the breach in January 2015 that may have
exposed the electronic protected health information of almost 79
million people between December 2, 2014, and January 27, 2015. The
settlement represents the largest settlement paid to OCR, more than
doubling the previous highest amount of $5.55 million in 2016.
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