Welcome to the Settlement Website for the Marques v. Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services Data Breach Settlement

A Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit concerning Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services ("Defendant" or "GCBHS") and a data incident (the "Data Incident") that occurred in December 2023, when one or more unauthorized individuals allegedly accessed information on a database belonging to GCBHS, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver's license or state identification numbers, health insurance policy or plan numbers, and healthcare information (Medicare/Medicaid numbers, patient identification numbers, medical record numbers, provider names, treatment locations, dates of treatment, diagnoses, treatments, prescriptions, medical histories, and test results). (collectively, "Private Information").

The lawsuit is called In re Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services Data Incident Litigation, No. A2400433 (Hamilton County). The lawsuit asserts claims related to the Data Incident. The Defendant in the lawsuit is GCBHS. GCBHS denies any wrongdoing or that it is or can be held liable for the claims made in the lawsuit. The Settlement does not establish who is correct but rather is a compromise to end the lawsuit.

Members of the Class are all United States residents whose Private Information was implicated in the Data Incident, including all United States residents to whom Greater Cincinnati Behavioral Health Services sent direct notice of the Data Incident. Excluded from this Class are: (i) all persons who timely and validly request exclusion from the Class; (ii) the Judge assigned to evaluate the fairness of this Settlement (including any members of the Court's staff assigned to this case); (iii) Defendant's officers and directors, and (iv) any person found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be guilty under criminal law of initiating, causing, aiding or abetting the criminal activity occurrence of the Data Incident or who pleads nolo contendere to any such charge.

Class Members are eligible to receive the following relief: (1) up to $5,000.00 in reimbursement for documented out of pocket losses and expenses resulting from the Data Incident, and (2) a cash payment between roughly $60 and $120 (assuming a claims rate of 5-10% of the roughly 61,850-person Settlement Class), which will be pro rata increased or decreased based on the money still remaining in the Settlement Fund at the time of payment; and/or (3) one (1) year of CyEx Medical Shield 3-bureau identity theft and credit monitoring protection. All three forms of relief may be combined. The Settlement Administrator will post additional information about the payment amount on this website. For complete details, please see the Settlement Agreement, whose terms control.

Your legal rights are affected regardless of whether you act or do not act. Please read the Notice carefully.

These rights and options-and the deadlines to exercise them-are explained in the Notice and FAQs. For complete details, please see the Settlement Agreement, whose terms control.

The Court in charge of this case still has to decide whether to approve the Settlement. No Settlement benefits or payments will be provided unless the Court approves the Settlement and it becomes Final.