Legal TREND. Health Care Data Breach Leads to All Employers have Duty to Protect Employee Data

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that all employers must exercise reasonable care to protect worker data.

How did they get there? A health care provider employee data breach led to a lawsuit. Lower courts sided with the employer that there was no data security requirements for employee records. The PA Supreme Court disagreed. 

Pittsburg Post Gazette | PA Supreme Court rules UPMC — and all employers — must protect workers’ data. Doing so is harder