Health Law

Data breach impacts 4.2 million accounts
The Boston Globe reports that Hannaford Bros. supermarket disclosed that a data breach potentially exposed the credit and debit card data of 4.2 million accounts.

CA Looks to Expand Data Breach Notification Law But Won't Address Compensation
California State Senator Joe Simitian, the man responsible in large part for the nation's first data-breach notification law, said he's working on legislation, already introduced, that would require companies that do business in California to provide more information in their breach notification letters to consumers...

Preemption: Meanwhile, back at the convention
Apropos preemption, we note this session on Sunday, July 13, at the American Association for Justice's annual convention in Philadelphia: Preemption Law Litigation Group Afternoon Theme: Federal Preemption: Fighting in Court and in Congress Preemption Update: Activity on the Hill...

Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State
Data Breach Notification Laws, State By State, by Scott Berinato, "More than five years after California's seminal data breach disclosure...

Heartland Payment Data Breach Draws Class Action Lawuit
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Heartland Payment Systems, Inc. over the loss of credit card information to hackers in 2008, and the company's subsequent handling of the data breach...

Data Breach Notification Laws - Not Just For California Anymore
It has now been more than five years since California became the first state to pass a data breach notification law (California SB 1386) mandating that companies notify consumers when they have lost the consumer’s personal data...

Torts
Introduction to Torts

Discouraging Union Organizers
Strict work place rules

Princeton Review
Sarasota Student Data Breach Prompts Class Action

Data Breach
USSearch.com to pay $250,000 settlement in information lawsuit.

VA Sets New Benefit Rules for Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses
Agent Orange-Related Ilnesses VA Sets New Benefit Rules

T-mobile data plans, T-mobile, t-mobile phones
T-Mobile Faces Class Action over Limited Unlimited Data Plans

US Army Corps of Engineers
Class action dismissed for allegedly failing to protect New Orleans from the levee breach.

Security Breach
Check 'N Go to pay $220,000 settlement in personal information lawsuit.