Puerto Rican Hospitals Win Ransomware Class Action Suit Dismissal

Plaintiffs in a proposed class action against a hospital duo don’t have standing because the injury they allege isn’t actual or imminent, according to a Puerto Rico federal court opinion.

The injury suffered by plaintiffs Pablo Quintero and Joannie Principe from an alleged ransomware attack against the hospitals is “merely conjectural or hypothetical,” Judge William G. Young wrote in a memorandum of decision filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico.

Quintero and Principe sued Pavia Hospital Santurce and Pavia Hospital Hato Rey in February 2020, accusing them of failing to safeguard patient data from ...