Atwal, MD PC v. ECL Group LLC

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK AMAR ATWAL MD, PC, Plaintiff, v. DECISION AND ORDER 22-CV-355S ECL GROUP, LLC, Defendant. I. Introduction In this removed breach of contract action, Plaintiff Dr. Amar Atwal (“Dr. Atwal” or “Plaintiff”) sues for injuries arising from his medical practice’s agreement with Defendant ECL Group, LLC (“ECL” or “Defendant”). Dr. Atwal contracted with ECL to retain his electronic medical records. In March 2021, ECL suffered an eight-day outage of its electronic medical record (or “EMR”) system, losing unbacked up records because of encryption…