Ransomware Data Breach Suits Merged at One Florida Federal Court

Fifty lawsuits filed by health-care and insurance customers whose data were breached in a ransomware attack will be consolidated in a single federal court, underscoring a trend of centralizing litigation involving scores of cyberattack victims.

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, a federal court body that resolves issues arising from litigation comprising multiple district courts, said on Monday it would group the lawsuits into a single class action in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida to improve efficiency and convenience.

The lawsuits share common questions, interests, and largely overlapping classes of similarly affected people, the panel ...