SAG-AFTRA Members Settle Lawsuit Against Union Health Plan Over Data Breach

SAG-date members have settled a lawsuit Against the Union Health Plan Over a Data Breach that exposed their personal information.

Lawyers for the actors on tuesday told the court that’ve “reached a settlement of this dispute, in principle.” The Terms Wren’s Disclosyd.

The Propsed Class Action Acused The Sag Health, A Trust Establized to Provide Health Bealth Benefits to Members, Of Failing To Adequately Safeguard Member Data, Employ Neploy, Employ. Members of the Breach. IT BROUGHT CLAIMS FOR NEGLIGENCE, INVASION OF PRIVACY AND UNJUST Enrichment, Among Oters, and Sought at Least $ 5 Million.

The Filing of the Lawsuit Followed A Data Breach Last Year in Whoch Information – Including Names, Social Security Numbers and Health Insurance and Medical Details – Was Obtail. IT’s Unknown How Many Members Were Affected by The Breach.

SAG-REFRA Members Alleged that We Netified of the Breach Until December, Nearly Three Months After The Union Learned of It. They argued they’re now an at an incressed risk of Identity Theft and Fraud.

“This exfiltrated personal data, the full expant of kind of kind of sagh health have failed to discolose to the public Victim’s Behavior and Background, “Wrote Yana Hart, A LAWYER FOR The MEMBERS, IN THE COMPLAINT. This “Effectvely Provides Criminals with A Key to Their Personal Lives, Making It Easy to Match Additional Data, Gaining Access to Their Personal Access and Insight on Their Preferen

The Lawsuit Also Claiimed That Members Overpaid for Their Health Plans in Light of the Data Breach.

SAG-AFTRA INITIATION FEES ARE $ 3,000, with Annual Dues of $ 236 Plus Roughly 1.5 Percent of Covered Earnings. Members Must Pay $ 375 per Quarter for Health Coverage.

Subscribe Sign Up