Group Health Plan (GHP), sponsored by HealthPartners and Virtuwell, is a defendant in a class action lawsuit related to mishandling of customer data.
If you were a GHP customer, you may be subject to a class action lawsuit.
HealthPartners and Virtuwell Class Action Lawsuit
If you visit HealthPartners and Virtuwell websites between January 1, 2018 and November 10, 2023, your personal information may have been shared with third parties.
Group Health Plan currently denies the allegations. You can read more about this incident here.
If you believe your personal and sensitive data may have been compromised, there is still time to file a claim. The claim form can be found here.
If you submit a claim form by April 7, 2025, you will receive a pro-rata share of the Net Settlement Fund as compensation. If you do nothing, you will not receive the settlement money. However, as the settlement relates to data use and storage, it will remain binding.
How does a class action lawsuit work?
Class action law has evolved over the past several decades. However, there are specific rules binding on class actions known as Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The Legal Information Institute indicates that a court must find out in order to authorize a class action lawsuit:
- Due to the large number of class members, it is not practical to participate in the action
- Collective participants’ claims share a common question of law or fact
- The claims or defenses of proposed class representatives are typical of the claims or defenses of the remaining members of the class;
- The proposed class representative will adequately protect the interests of the class as a whole.
In other words, for a judgment to have approximately the same impact on all class participants, all plaintiffs must have sufficiently similar claims for damages. So the question before the court is whether all of these plaintiffs actually suffered similar damages from the defendants.
How long does a class action lawsuit take?
Again, the answer is “it depends.”
In some cases, the answer is 10 minutes. A defendant can end a lawsuit before it begins by settling with the plaintiff. Usually this means payment. According to Top Class Action, Settlements are usually It can take up to 9 months or a year.
But if a class action lawsuit goes to trial, the timeline is several years, typically two to three years, according to the Cochrane office.
