Welcome to the Settlement Website for the ECL Privacy Breach Litigation.
If you are a physician or eyecare clinic who relied on ECL Group, LLC, and affiliated entities for record-keeping and related practice management support services, OR if you were a patient of a physician or eyecare clinic associated with ECL, you could be entitled to a payment from a class action settlement.
This website explains important legal rights you may have.
Your legal rights are affected whether you act or do not act.
Please read the Notice and this website carefully.
A settlement has been reached resolving class action lawsuits claiming that ECL Group, LLC, and affiliated entities (collectively, “ECL”), a record-keeping vendor for top-rated eye care clinics across the country, lost control over millions of patients’ highly sensitive personal information for a period of months during a series of ransomware attacks (collectively, the “Data Breach”), and that ECL suffered service outages as a result of the ransomware attacks, which impacted eyecare physicians who relied on ECL for access to their patient data.
Patient Class Members – If you are a Patient Class Member, you were able to file a claim for documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred because of the Data Breach, up to $5,000. Whether or not you incurred out-of-pocket expenses, you could have also filed a Claim for a cash payment, with the amount of payment depending on the number of Valid Claims received.
Physician Class Members – Physician Class Members could have filed a Claim for a cash payment, with the amount of payment depending on the number of Valid Claims received. If you are a Physician Class Member who was under contract with ECL as of April 2023, you could have also filed a claim for billing credits with a total potential value of $5,739,500.