US Vision Beats Suit Over Breach of Nationwide Optometry Data

US Vision Inc. and USV Optical Inc. defeated a lawsuit alleging they failed to protect the personal information of more than 710,000 patients that was exposed in a 2021 data breach.

The plaintiffs, patients of former US Vision subsidiary Nationwide Optometry PC, failed to establish that they had a direct relationship with US Vision, which provided practice-management and other services for Nationwide. They also failed to show that Nationwide was US Vision’s alter ego, Judge Christine P. O’Hearn of the US District Court for the District of Arizona said Wednesday.

That failure was fatal to their claims of breach of ...