Privacy Class Actions

Defending Consumers' Rights in Privacy Class Action Suits

Consumers have the right to trust that their sensitive information will be kept safe from abuse or misuse, and current legislation articulates these privacy protections. Unfortunately, violations of consumer privacy occur often, leading to devastating consequences. Whether you’re the victim of identity theft or a security breach, someone failed to keep your private data safe. At Caddell & Chapman, our seasoned legal team believes in taking swift and aggressive action against the bank, insurance company, or other institution that failed to protect your privacy. Chances are, other victims have been harmed as well. We will file a privacy class action lawsuit to hold these parties legally and financially liable for their negligence.

How Identity Theft Occurs

While there are certainly individual cases of identity theft in which a criminal gains access to someone’s personal information, cases involving mass security breaches, where the personal information of many people falls into the wrong hands, occur frequently. Initially, it is reasonable to hold the bank, insurance company, or other business responsible for gathering the information accountable. However, these businesses are often victims as well. They enlist data warehouses to hold all of their customers’ personal information. When these warehouses fail to keep that information secure, the business will have to pay all the costs of cleaning up the mess, such as reissuing credit cards and other costly actions. Our attorneys will examine the details of your case and identify the defendant—or defendants—responsible for your loss.

Security Breaches Impacting Multiple Victims

For almost 40 years, Caddell & Chapman has handled significant and complex consumer protection cases nationwide. First, we will determine the number of people harmed by the security breach. Our goal is to file a class action lawsuit against the party responsible for violating, breaching, or failing to protect your sensitive information, ultimately securing each consumer the compensation they deserve.

We also represent banks and other institutions targeted in a security breach. In most of these situations, the data warehouse’s failure to protect private information led to a massive security breach. For example, we served as co-lead and liaison counsel in litigation against Heartland Payment Systems over what was then the largest data breach in history — impacting over 130 million consumer files. Heartland processes payment card transactions for about 250,000 merchants and handles an average of more than 100 million transactions per month and more than $80 billion in transactions annually. In late January 2009, Heartland admitted that it experienced a massive security breach compromising up to 100 million credit card numbers. Over the years, we’ve handled cases like this, advocating aggressively for our clients.

If you have been the victim of identity theft or a security breach, we encourage you to reach out to our office as soon as possible to discuss your case.

Caddell & Chapman takes on privacy class actions on behalf of clients nationwide. Call our office today at (713) 751-0400 to discuss your options for holding the at-fault party responsible for violating your right to privacy.

If you’ve been a victim of a security breach, there are likely other victims. We will file a privacy class action lawsuit to hold the at-fault institution responsible for its failure to protect your privacy.

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Privacy Class Actions

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