3 New Transfer Cases in MOVEit MDL Bring Case Tally to 120
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) transferred three cases in In Re: MOVEit Customer Data Security Breach Litigation to U.S. District Court for Massachusetts in Boston under U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, said conditional transfer order 13 (CTO-13)…
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Friday (docket 3083). The three latest cases from federal courts in Indiana, Michigan and South Dakota are Everling v. First Merchants Bank, Heinz v. Jackson National Life Insurance and Ken v. Pathward. The three cases involve the late May data breach in Progress Software’s MOVEit file transfer software. Since Oct. 4, 120 actions have been transferred to the District of Massachusetts. Elsewhere, plaintiff Samantha O’Neal in O’Neal v. EMS Management & Consultants (docket 1:23-cv-00738) opposes transfer in CTO-10 to the MOVEit MDL, said her Friday notice of opposition before the JPML. O’Neal’s negligence class action alleges EMS Management had a duty to protect her personally identifiable information and should have known “through readily available and accessible information about potential threats for the unauthorized exfiltration and misuse of such information.”