Plaintiffs Agree to Consolidate Privacy Class Actions vs. Onix Group

Plaintiffs Thomas Jones and Leah Simione support a motion to consolidate their action against Onix Group, said their supplemental briefing Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-02621) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Jones and Simione agree the privacy cases against Onix for a data breach in its healthcare business involve common questions of law and fact, and consolidation would simplify discovery, pretrial motions and class certification issues, said the brief. They also support the appointment of Benjamin Johns of Shub & Johns and Gary Klinger of Milberg Coleman as interim co-lead class counsel. The fraud complaints against Onix allege the company failed to secure and safeguard about 320,000 individuals’ personally identifiable information and personal health information during a March data breach in its healthcare business (see 2307100027). Plaintiffs Eric Meyers, Donald Owens and Aida Wimbush informed the court Wednesday they're moving to consolidate the related actions.