The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case testing a hospital’s assertion of immunity from liability for a data breach on the basis of its status as an employee of the US Public Health Service.
The court’s decision leaves in place a Fourth Circuit ruling rejecting the argument of Sandmills Medical Foundation Inc. that it was immune from a proposed patient class action over the exposure of personal information in a 2020 cyberattack.
The provision of data security wasn’t covered by a provision of the Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act creating protection from legal claims for the ...
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