$900K Henderson & Walton Women’s Center Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Over 2022 Data Breach
Townsel v. Henderson & Walton Women’s Center, P.C.
Filed: March 24, 2026 ◆§ CV-2024-900914
A $900K Henderson & Walton Women’s Center settlement offers cash and credit monitoring to individuals impacted by a Feb. 2022 data breach.
Henderson & Walton Women’s Center, P.C. has agreed to a $900,000 settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the OB/GYN and women’s health practice failed to protect current and former patients’ sensitive information from a February 2022 data breach.
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The $900,000 Henderson & Walton Women’s Center class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on March 24, 2026. The deal covers all individuals whose personal and/or protected health information was potentially compromised as a result of the data breach that occurred between February 11 and February 14, 2022.
The court-approved website for the Henderson & Walton Women’s Center data breach settlement can be found at HWWCDataIncidentSettlement.com.
Settlement class members who file a valid, timely claim form can receive up to $150 for “ordinary” losses stemming from the data breach. Losses covered by this benefit include bank fees, phone and data charges, postage, travel, and costs for credit reports, credit monitoring or other identity theft insurance services purchased between August 2022 and August 27, 2026.
Class members must submit proof, such as receipts, to receive an ordinary-loss payment.
Class members can also file a claim form to receive up to $2,500 for “extraordinary” losses incurred as a result of the breach that are not covered by the ordinary-loss benefit.
Class members must submit proof, such as identity theft reports, affidavits, police reports, or other correspondence, to receive an extraordinary-loss payment.
In addition, class members may file a claim to receive reimbursement for up to three hours of lost time spent responding to the breach, at a rate of $30 per hour. Class members must provide with their claim an attestation indicating how this time was spent.
Finally, all class members can file a claim form to receive three years of medical and credit monitoring, which includes one-bureau credit monitoring, dark web scanning, identity theft insurance, and other services.
To file a Henderson & Walton Women’s Center settlement claim form online, class members can head to this page and log in using the notice ID and confirmation code listed on their copy of the settlement notice. Alternatively, class members can download a PDF of the claim form to print, fill out, and return by mail to the settlement administrator.
All class action settlement claim forms must be submitted online or by mail by August 27, 2026.
The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Henderson & Walton Women’s Center settlement following a hearing on August 12, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.
The Henderson & Walton Women’s Center class action lawsuit claimed that the Alabama-based women’s healthcare and OB/GYN practices failed to implement reasonable cybersecurity measures to protect the sensitive information of current and former patients, which allegedly led to a data breach between February 11 and February 14, 2022.
Per court documents, private information potentially exposed during the breach included dates of birth, Social Security numbers, medical information, health insurance information, driver’s license numbers and state ID numbers.
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