In re Anthem, Inc. Data Breach Litigation

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Case overview

Case Number:

5:15-md-02617

Court:

California Northern

Nature of Suit:

Contract: Other

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action, Multi-district Litigation

Judge:

Lucy H. Koh

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December 08, 2016
Anthem CEO Escapes Deposition In Data Breach Row

A California federal judge on Thursday refused to allow consumers suing Anthem over its massive 2015 data breach to grill the insurer's chief executive officer about his response to a prebreach warning that its systems were vulnerable to cyberattacks, ruling that the "last-second" request sought information that other sources have already provided.
May 31, 2016
Anthem Data Breach MDL Claims Mostly Kept Alive

Consumers suing Anthem Inc. and a number of both affiliated and nonaffiliated insurers in multidistrict litigation over a massive 2015 data breach affecting 80 million people can mostly proceed on their claims, a California federal judge ruled Friday, trimming just a small portion of selected allegations.
May 11, 2016
Insurers Press For Escape From Anthem Data Breach MDL

Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance units from at least 10 states continued their push for a California federal judge to dismiss certain claims against them in multidistrict litigation over an Anthem Inc. data breach affecting 80 million people, saying the consumers still hadn't alleged sufficient facts.
April 08, 2016
Anthem Can't Fight Data Breach MDL By Digging Through PCs

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday denied Anthem's request to explore the personal computers and devices of each named consumer in the sprawling data breach multidistrict litigation in order to tell whether their information was compromised before the 2015 cyberattack, calling it unreasonably intrusive and unnecessary.
April 05, 2016
Anthem, Insurers Battle Data Breach MDL Claims

Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance units from at least 10 states asked a California federal judge Tuesday to let them out of multidistrict litigation over an Anthem Inc. data breach affecting 80 million people, and Anthem sought to have claims against it dropped.
February 16, 2016
Anthem Data Breach MDL Gets Trimmed By Calif. Judge

A California federal judge on Sunday removed three Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance units entirely and partially removed seven more from multidistrict litigation over a massive Anthem Inc. data breach affecting 80 million people, finding they had no ties to many of the claims asserted by the consumers.
January 20, 2016
Anthem Denies That Massive Data Breach Did Harm

Anthem and several affiliates urged a California federal judge on Tuesday to dismiss multidistrict litigation claims accusing the companies of failing to prevent a massive data breach affecting 80 million people, arguing that the consumers suing them still haven't shown that they were harmed.
December 22, 2015
Consumers Fight To Keep Alive Anthem Data Breach MDL

A group of consumers urged a California federal court Monday to keep alive multidistrict litigation over a health insurance data breach affecting 80 million people, saying Anthem was wrong to argue that the plaintiffs failed to show they were injured.
November 24, 2015
Anthem Says Data Breach MDL Should Be Tossed

Anthem urged a California federal court to toss multidistrict litigation over a health insurance data breach affecting 80 million people on Monday, saying the consumers suffered no harm from the breach and had shoehorned their proposed class claims into inapplicable state laws.
November 23, 2015
Blue Cross Entities Want Out Of Anthem Data Breach MDL

Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurance entities from four separate states on Monday asked a California federal judge to remove them from multidistrict litigation over a massive Anthem Inc. data breach affecting 80 million people, saying they are not subject to the court's personal or general jurisdiction.