HIPAA-related data breach is nation’s first multistate lawsuit Nashville, TN- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced today that a U.S. district court judge has signed a consent judgment negotiated by 16 states’ attorneys general and Medical Informatics Engineering, Inc. This case was the nation’s first-ever multistate lawsuit involving a HIPAA-related data breach. The lawsuit, led by Indiana, was filed in December of 2018 against a web-based electronic health records company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The company allegedly sustained a data breach compromising the data of more than 3.9 million people. The data of 43,373 Tennesseans, including 14,871 Social Security Numbers, was compromised.

Nashville—Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III joined a bipartisan group of 47 Attorneys General calling on Congress to amend the Communications Decency Act in order to ensure states and local authorities can protect citizens online and act against criminals.

Nashville, TN- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today joined a group of 51 Attorneys General urging the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) to automatically forgive the student loans of veterans who became totally and permanently disabled in connection with their military service. The bipartisan coalition issued its letter as the country prepares to honor fallen troops on Memorial Day.

(Nashville, TN) Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III joined a 44-state coalition led by Connecticut in announcing a lawsuit against Teva Pharmaceuticals and 19 of the nation's largest generic drug manufacturers alleging a broad conspiracy to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition and unreasonably restrain trade for more than 100 different generic drugs. The drugs at issue account for billions of dollars of sales in the United States, and the alleged schemes increased prices affecting the health insurance market, taxpayer-funded healthcare programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and individuals who must pay artificially inflated prices for their prescription drugs.

Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today sued Endo Pharmaceuticals and Endo Health Solutions Inc. (Endo) for making unlawful and false claims about the safety and benefits of its opioid products.

Nashville- The Attorney General’s office supports the decision by Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) Commissioner Lisa Piercy to approve Ballad Health’s request to consolidate neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) services. This was not an easy decision. The Commissioner and the Ballad Board of Directors engaged in a thorough and objective analysis weighing the impact of realignment with the goal of enhancing quality of care and improving patient outcomes for the community.

Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III joined a 17-state coalition this week to support farmers and landowners by urging the Trump administration to adopt its proposed replacement of the Obama-era, Waters of the United States rule.

Nashville- The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee has made public a suit filed by Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III against ProHealth Rural Health Services, Inc., and its President and Chief Executive Officer, Ray White. By filing the suit, the State intervened in a case initially filed by a whistle blower.

Nashville- The settlement announcement today between the state of Oklahoma and Purdue Pharma is a favorable development. After years of denial, Purdue finally recognized its role in creating the opioid crisis.

Robert Bosch LLC accused of harming consumers and undermining regulations by developing and selling unlawful “defeat devices”: Nashville-Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III announced that Bosch will pay the State of Tennessee $2,291,760 in consumer and environmental civil penalties. The agreement also includes precedent-setting injunctive terms and requires Bosch to maintain robust processes to monitor compliance and to refuse to accommodate requests for software development and programming that could result in the installation of defeat device software.

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III has reached an agreement with Dr. Ricardo Causo which requires the Chattanooga pediatrician to pay the State of Tennessee $125,897.65.

Nashville- Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III today urged the U.S. Senate to enact the Telephone Robocall Abuse Criminal Enforcement and Deterrence (TRACED) Act, legislation to curb illegal robocalls and spoofing. A coalition of 54 attorneys general, led by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson, New Hampshire Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald, and Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, sent a letter to the U. S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation supporting the TRACED Act. The legislation is sponsored by Sens. John Thune and Ed Markey.

Allows certain consumers to have inquiry reviewed: Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III said Tennesseans who have not yet been made whole through other Wells Fargo settlement remediation programs can now register a complaint with Wells Fargo for possible relief.

Knox County Circuit Court Judge Kristi M. Davis recently denied Purdue Pharma’s motion to dismiss and found that the State has set forth a cause of action for violation of the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, violation of the 2007 Agreed Final Judgment, and creation of a public nuisance.

Nashville- “We are pleased with the Court’s decision and with its conclusion that there is no evidence of on-going systemic problems in TennCare’s process of making timely determinations of the eligibility of applicants for Medicaid coverage,” said Herbert H. Slatery III.