COLLINS v. ATHENS ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC, P.A

307 Ga. 555

FINAL COPY S19G0007. COLLINS et al. v. ATHENS ORTHOPEDIC CLINIC, P.A. PETERSON, Justice. When a criminal steals consumers’ sensitive personal data, what do those consumers have to plead against the allegedly negligent business from whom the data was stolen to show a legally cognizable injury under Georgia tort law? The Court of Appeals has held in cases involving the exposure of personal information that the failure to show that the information had actually fallen into criminal hands, let alone that the information was used to the consumers’ detriment, meant that plaintiffs had…