US Midwest Womens Healthcare Specialists May 2014 Technical Error (Q9768)
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A data breach risk event
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | US Midwest Womens Healthcare Specialists May 2014 Technical Error |
A data breach risk event |
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May 2014
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Attorneys representing more than 1,500 women whose personal medical information was compromised when their records were blown from a dumpster on a windy day in May have reached a settlement agreement with the medical group responsible. In the settlement agreement, which still has to be approved by a judge in January, Midwest Womens Healthcare Specialists agree to set up a victims fund of $400,000 to compensate the estimated 1,532 women whose documents were improperly disposed of in a dumpster outside Research Medical Center . Midwest Womens Healthcare will also separately agree to pay for up to two years of credit monitoring for the affected women, and it will re-train its employees in the proper handling of sensitive documents. We are pleased to have reached an agreement that is satisfac (English)
