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Investigation: Sunrun and eHealth

Keller Grover LLP is investigating data breaches involving Sunrun Inc. and eHealthInsurance Services, Inc. According to data breach notifications recently sent to affected employees, Sunrun and eHealth both were the victim of recent email spoofing attacks wherein Sunrun and eHealth employees turned over copies of 2016 employee W-2 forms to cyber criminals. An IRS Tax Form W-2 includes the following highly sensitive information: (1) employee name; (2) employee address; (3) employee Social Security number; and (4) employee tax year wage information. With that information, a criminal can file fraudulent tax returns and open credit card accounts, amongst other illegal activities.

Both Sunrun and eHealth are headquartered in California. Negligent release and disclosure of confidential personal information is unlawful in California under certain circumstances. Whether you worked for Sunrun or eHealth in California or another state, if you have been affected by a California data breach, including the Sunrun or eHealth data breaches described above, you may be entitled to seek damages and other relief under California law relating to the disclosure of your personal information. The California attorneys of Keller Grover are experienced in the field of privacy litigation and have represented clients in numerous data breach class action cases, including lawsuits against Seagate, St. Joseph Health Systems, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, Health Net and 21st Century Oncology. In aggregate, Keller Grover has helped victims of data breaches recover millions of dollars in reparation for the harm they have suffered.

If you have any information about the Sunrun or eHealth data breaches and have questions, contact Keller Grover’s attorneys at 866-663-3308 or by email at eagrover@kellergrover.com. Keller Grover will not charge you for reviewing your information and all information that you provide to Keller Grover in the process of seeking legal advice will be held strictly confidential.

Quest Diagnostics

Keller Grover LLP is investigating a medical data breach involving Quest Diagnostics. According to a data breach notification recently sent to affected patients, an unauthorized third party accessed the MyQuest by Care360® internet application and obtained Protected Health Information, including names, dates of birth and lab results.

Negligent release and disclosure of personal and medical information is unlawful under certain circumstances in California. If you have been affected by a medical data breach, including the Quest Diagnostics data breach, you may be entitled to seek damages relating to the disclosure of your personal and medical information. Keller Grover is experienced in the field of medical information privacy litigation and has represented clients in numerous medical data breach class action cases, including lawsuits against St. Joseph Health Systems, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, Health Net and 21^st Century Oncology. In aggregate, Keller Grover has helped victims of medical data breaches recover millions of dollars for the harm they have suffered.

If you have any information about the Quest Diagnostics data breach or are a California resident that has been affected by the data breach and have questions, contact Keller Grover’s attorneys at 866-663-3308 or by email at info@kellergrover.com. Keller Grover will not charge you for reviewing your information and all information that you provide to Keller Grover in the process of seeking legal advice will be held strictly confidential.

21st Century Oncology Data Breach

Keller Grover LLP is investigating a medical data breach involving 21st Century Oncology. According to a data breach notification recently sent to affected patients, an unauthorized person may have accessed and obtained patient information from a 21st Century Oncology database in October 2015. The patient information included patient names, Social Security numbers, physicians’ names, diagnosis and treatment information, and insurance information.

Negligent release and disclosure of personal and medical information is unlawful under certain circumstances in California. If you have been affected by a medical data breach, including the 21 Century Oncology data breach described above, you may be entitled to seek damages relating to the disclosure of your personal and medical information. Keller Grover is experienced in the field of medical information privacy litigation and has represented clients in numerous medical data breach class action cases, including lawsuits against St. Joseph Health Systems, Stanford Hospitals and Clinics, and Health Net. In aggregate, Keller Grover has helped victims of medical data breaches recover millions of dollars in reparation for the harm they have suffered.

If you have any information about the data breach or are a California resident that has been affected by the data breach and have questions, contact Keller Grover’s attorneys at 866-663-3308 or by email at info@kellergrover.com. Keller Grover will not charge you for reviewing your information and all information that you provide to Keller Grover in the process of seeking legal advice will be held strictly confidential.

United States ex rel Julie A. Macias v. Pacific Health Corporation

Keller Grover LLP represents Julie A. Macias in a False Claims Act case pending in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Macias alleges in her complaint that the Defendants, including her former employer, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, engaged in a fraudulent scheme to use improper psychiatric holds and an unlawful kickback arrangement to bill Medicare and Medicare for the patients’ supposed care and treatment. Macias is a registered nurse who had been employed by Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center as a Psychiatric Evaluator certified to initiate psychiatric holds pursuant to California Welfare & Institutions Code § 5150. Macias alleges that the scheme involved not just her former employer, the hospital where the patients were held in locked psychiatric wards, but also doctors at the hospital, marketers who coordinated bringing the patients to the hospital, and an ambulance company that arranged to transport the patients between the facilities where the patients lived and the hospital. Originally filed in February 2012, the case is United States ex rel Julie A. Macias v. Pacific Health Corporation, et al., Case No. 12-CV-960 RSWL (SHx).
Relevant Pleadings:
• Amended Complaint

Default Judgment against PHC for retaliation against Relator

Read the story in the Orange County Register about this case.

United States ex rel Krahling and Wlochowski v. Merck & Co.

Keller Grover LLP represents Stephen Krahling and Joan Wlochowski in a False Claims Act case originally filed in 2010 and now pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, United States ex rel. Krahling and Wlochowski v. Merck & Co., Case No. 10-cv-4374. Krahling and Wlochowski allege in their complaint that their former employer, Merck & Co., defrauded the government for more than a decade in an ongoing scheme to sell the government a mumps vaccine that is mislabeled, misbranded, adulterated and falsely certified as having an efficacy rate that is significantly higher than it actually is. The federal government purchases more than half of all vaccines sold in the United States, including the mumps vaccine. While the United States declined to intervene, it filed a Statement of Interest in response to Merck’s motion to dismiss making clear the government has “a strong interest in the outcome, even though it has not intervened in the case.” The government appeared at the hearing on Merck’s motion along with counsel for Krahling and Wlochowski and emphasized its position for the Court. Merck’s motion to dismiss was subsequently denied.

Relevant Pleadings:

•   Amended Complaint
•   Statement of Interest of the United States Government
•   Order Denying Merck’s Motion to Dismiss

Read the story in the Wall Street Journal about this case.