Jan. 30 Hearing Is Set on Northwell’s Motion to Stay Data Breach Case

U.S. Magistrate Judge Steven Tiscione for Eastern New York in Central Islip is deferring a ruling on Northwell Health’s Jan. 18 motion to stay plaintiff Amanda Marconi’s data breach case, and instead is scheduling a dial-in hearing on the motion for Jan. 30 at 10:30 a.m., said Tiscione’s text-only order Monday (docket 2:23-cv-08638). Northwell and its co-defendant, Perry Johnson & Associates (PJ&A), are requesting the stay while a motion for centralization and consolidation encompassing Marconi’s case and nearly 40 other actions is pending before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. A JPML hearing on the motion is scheduled for Thursday. The various complaints allege that malicious actors accessed the personal records of 3.9 million current and former Northwell patients between March 27 and May 2, but that Northwell and its record-keeping vendor, PJ&A, kept the data breach hidden from the public until Nov. 3 (see 2311210005).