Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida Settlement Ends Class Action Lawsuit Over 2024 Data Breach

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Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida, P.L., has agreed to a settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleged the medical practice failed to protect the sensitive information of current and former patients from a September 2024 data breach.

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The Physicians’ Primary Care class action settlement received preliminary approval from the court on May 18, 2026. The agreement covers all living adults in the United States whose private information was potentially impacted in the data breach, including all who received notice of the incident from Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida.

The court-approved website for the Physicians’ Primary Care data breach settlement can be found at PhysiciansPrimaryCareDataSettlement.com.

Physicians’ Primary Care settlement class members who file a valid, timely claim form can receive up to $5,000 for documented losses incurred between September 17, 2024 and September 29, 2026 due to the data breach. This benefit covers losses resulting from fraud or identity theft and the costs of credit reports, credit monitoring, freezing or unfreezing credit, replacement IDs, postage, and more.

Class members must submit proof, such as receipts, to receive a documented-loss payout.

Additionally, class members can file a claim form to receive an enrollment code for CyEx Medical Shield Complete, which includes one-bureau credit monitoring and medical identity theft insurance.

To file a Physicians’ Primary Care settlement claim form online, class members can head to this page and log in using the unique ID and PIN found 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 Physicians’ Primary Care settlement claim forms must be submitted online or by mail by September 29, 2026.

The court will determine whether to grant final approval to the Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida settlement following a hearing on September 14, 2026. Compensation will begin to be distributed to class members only after final approval is granted and any appeals are resolved.

The Physicians’ Primary Care of Southwest Florida class action lawsuit alleged that the physician-owned multispecialty medical practice failed to implement proper cybersecurity safeguards to protect the sensitive information of current and former patients, which allegedly resulted in a data breach detected on or around September 17, 2024.

Per court documents, private information potentially exposed during the breach included names, Social Security numbers, personally identifiable information and private health information.

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