I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written several times about the fight between Cottage Health System and Columbia Casualty, a division of CNA Insurance. In 2013 Cottage’s systems were breached and the private information of thousands of patients was publicly disclosed. Their insurance company paid $4.125 million for costs related to the breach, including a class action lawsuit. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Columbia Casualty paid Cottage Health System a little over $4 million after a breach in December 2013. Columbia wants their $4 million back, plus attorney’s fees and expenses because, they say, Cottage “did not follow minimum required practices for protecting information and did not truthfully attest to its security controls” (see article). Here is more […]
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