Change Healthcare Data Breach Suits Consolidated in Minnesota

Putative class actions alleging that UnitedHealth Group Inc. and its Change Healthcare Inc. subsidiary failed to protect the personal information of millions of people in a February data breach and failed to timely process payments to medical providers were consolidated infederal court in Minnesota.

The actions involve common questions of fact related to allegations that Change Healthcare failed to implement adequate data-security measures and botched the response to the attack, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation said in a Friday transfer order.

Plaintiffs in four actions in the Middle District of Tennessee filed the motion to consolidate, seeking to ...