Midvale Indemnity, American Family Mutual Beat Data Breach Suit

Midvale Indemnity Co. and American Family Mutual Insurance Co. ducked claims over a data breach which compromised driver’s license numbers, after a Wisconsin federal judge ruled that the drivers didn’t suffer any injury from the breach.

Alp Baysal, Thomas Maxim, and Sandra Italiano brought the proposed class action alleging that the insurance companies violated the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act when they failed to provide adequate data security for tens of thousands of drivers whose license numbers might have been compromised.

But Judge William M. Conley of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin dismissed the suit, ruling ...