Louisiana Children’s Medical Center Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Sharing

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A class action settlement resolves litigation against the Louisiana Children’s Medical Center (LCMC) over its alleged sharing of patients’ personal and medical data with Facebook and Google without consent.

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The LCMC class action settlement received preliminary court approval on November 7, 2025 and covers anyone who has an LCMC Patient Portal account that they accessed between January 1, 2019 and November 30, 2022.

The court-approved website for the Louisiana Children’s Medical Center settlement can be found at LCMCDataSettlement.com.

No action is required on the part of LCMC settlement class members to receive one year of CyEx Privacy Shield Pro, which includes CyEx’s Dark Web Watchlist, Password Scan, Password Defense, Digital Vault, Private Search, VPN In Touch and Data Broker Opt-Out functions and services.

Per the settlement website, an enrollment code was sent to all class members in their copy of the settlement notice, which can be used on this website to activate the Privacy Shield Pro subscription after the court grants final approval to the LCMC data settlement.

LCMC class members may also choose to submit a claim form to receive a $15 cash payment.

To submit a claim form online, class members can visit this page and log in with the unique ID and PIN found in their copy of the settlement notice.

Alternatively, a PDF of the claim form is available to print, fill out and mail back to the address listed on the first page of the form.

All claim forms must be submitted online or postmarked by November 25, 2025.

A hearing is scheduled for November 7, 2025 to determine whether the LCMC settlement will receive final court approval. Settlement benefits will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval has been granted and any appeals have been resolved.

The Louisiana Children’s Medical Center class action lawsuit claimed that the LCMC allowed unauthorized transmissions containing private personal and medical information to be sent to Facebook and Google via its website and Patient Portal.

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