Providence Privacy Case

Paul & Sugerman, PC

providenceclass@pspc.com

What You Can Do

Class Action Complaint (pdf)

Police Report (pdf)

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PROVIDENCE PRIVACY CASE

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  • The class action: Paul & Sugerman, PC, filed a class action case in Multnomah County Circuit Court on January 30, 2006.

  • The class: In the case, the plaintiff seeks to represent a class that consists of all Providence patients whose data was stolen or compromised as a result of the theft of data that occurred on December 31, 2005.

  • What we are requesting now: At the time of filing, the class action seeks injunctive relief which—in this case—takes the form of a court order requiring Providence to pay for enhanced credit report monitoring for all class members, pay for the fraud alerts, pay for reporting to the Social Security Administration, and pay for any credit repair process that is required if people are damaged. We are also seeking damages to compensate people for their losses.

  • Class membership: If you received a letter from Providence about this that was mailed in January of 2006, you are probably a class member. We do not yet know whether all class members were notified. So if you did not receive a letter, you may still be a class member. If you believe you are, please provide contact information as discussed below.

  • For the time being, you are included if you are a member of the class: You do not need to do anything further to join this case at this time. If the court allows the case to go forward as a class action or if a proposed settlement occurs, you would receive notice of the class action and the proposed settlement. You would have the opportunity to decide to participate or not at that time.

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  • Contact information: Web site at ProvidenceClassAction.com. Email to ProvidenceClass@pspc.com It would help us if we could keep updated on your address, phone number and email. You do not have to provide contact information to us, but it may help us to have recent and independent source of information. That way we can send additional information if we have it. Later, we might ask for additional information if we need it. For the present, we only want to have good contact information. Email works well for this purpose.

  • Fees and costs: We are not asking you to pay anything up front. If we win, we will ask the court to award fees and to reimburse our costs. If that happens, some of the money may come from the funds that the court awards to the class. Some of it may also come from Providence. If we do not win, we will not get paid fees or costs.

  • What we need from you: If you move or change contact information, please update us.

  • Our response time: We’re getting a lot of calls. We will do our best to return your calls as quickly as possible. You will likely hear from us most promptly by using email.