Medical Malpractice

“Business Associate” to Pay $2.3 Million After HIPAA Data Breach

October 1, 2020

On September 23, 2020, the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) within the U.S. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that CHSPSC, LLC, or Community Health Systems, must pay a $2.3 million settlement after a data breach occurred that affected 6 million individuals. Here, Maryland, D.C., and Virginia attorneys at Eccleston & Wolf…

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In its unreported opinion in Johnson v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland declined to extend the “corporate negligence” doctrine to parent or grandparent corporations in a medical malpractice setting.

August 31, 2017

Johnson v. Univ. of Md. Med. Sys. Corp., 2017 WL 1057447 (Md.  Ct. Spec. App. March 21, 2017) (Unreported) On March 21, 2017, the Maryland Court of Special Appeals issued its unreported opinion in Johnson v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation.  In Johnson, the Court declined to extend the “corporate negligence” doctrine to parent…

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