Legal Opinion
Fero v. Excellus Health Plain, Inc.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided February 22, 2017No. 6:15-CV-06569 EAWPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ELIZABETH A. WOLFORD, United States District Judge
INTRODUCTION
Those who are entrusted with details about an individual’s health care should guard against even the inadvertent disclosure of that confidential information. Those duties were allegedly breached in this case when hackers secured access to confidential health care information through a cyberattack. Nonetheless, while legal remedies may be pursued by those who were injured, the law only allows for the pursuit of plausible claims — and only by those who have standing based on an alleged legally compensable injury.…
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