If You Were Notified that Your Private Health Information Entrusted to UniCare Was Temporarily Accessible on the Internet, You May Be Entitled to Benefits from a Class Action Settlement.
A class action settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit aginst health and life insurance service provider UniCare Life and Health Insurance Company (“UniCare Life and Health Insurance”) and Wellpoint, Inc. (“Wellpoint”) (together “UniCare” or the “Defendants”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (captioned Rowe v. UniCare Life and Health Insurance Company, Class Action Case No. 09-CV-02286) alleging, among other things, that UniCare violated insurance laws and did not adequately protect private, non-public personal and health information (“Private Information”) of its clients in 2007 and 2008, when it was discovered that two computer servers that contained the Private Information were not properly secured by a third-party vendor for a period of time, which caused the Private Information of certain UniCare members to be temporarily accessible to unauthorized users via the Internet, according to the UniCare Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint data breach privacy class action settlement notice.
The private information involved in the UniCare Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint data breach privacy class action lawsuit settlement includes Social Security numbers, income information, employment information, phone number, medical history, prescription records, medical diagnoses, medical treatment history, and/or other information held by UniCare.
The Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint data breach settlement Class reportedly includes anyone in the United States who received a letter between April 1, 2007 and June 30, 2008, informing them that their Private Information entrusted to UniCare had been or may have been made temporarily accessible via the Internet.
The Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint data breach privacy class action lawsuit settlement reportedly offers Internet and credit monitoring, identity theft insurance, and reimbursements for identity theft and out-of-pocket expenses to eligible people whose Private Information was accessible
over the Internet. For information on how to submit a settlement claim form, visit the settlement website.
The Court will reportedly hold a Fairness Hearing at 9:30 a.m. on September 14, 2011 at the Everett McKinley Dirksen United States Courthouse, 219 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604, in court room 1225 to consider whether the proposed Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint Settlement is fair, reasonable, and adequate.
For more information on the Life and Health Insurance & Wellpoint data breach privacy class action lawsuit settlement, visit the Rowe v. UniCare Life and Health Insurance Co, and Wellpoint, Inc. Settlement Website:
www.UniCareDataClaims.com
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