Worker Health Data Stolen in Covid-19 Scheme, Whistleblower Says

Steel processor SPS Companies Inc. was sued in Missouri federal court by a former employee who says he was fired for blowing the whistle on the company’s alleged misappropriation of confidential worker health data in an effort to mitigate liability for employee exposure to Covid-19.

Micah Morrison says that after he was selected to serve on SPS’s Covid-19 task force, he received an email showing that the company had secretly obtained the confidential health data of about 650 employees and their families, including the identities of employees with preexisting conditions. According to Morrison, SPS’s goal was to limit its liability ...