Almeida Law Group Founder Takes Leadership Role

David S. Almeida, Founder & Managing Partner of Almeida Law Group LLC, was recently appointed—along with Nickolas J. Hagman of Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP—by US District Court Judge Nelson S. Román to serve as Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Teladoc Health, Inc. 

What This Class Action Means

The class action lawsuit challenges Teladoc’s use of tracking technologies on its website to collect and disclose protected health and other sensitive information without consent. Teladoc is a digital health company that provides virtual healthcare services, such as video or chat meetings with doctors. As part of Teladoc’s business, it collects, maintains and stores consumers’ highly sensitive personally identifiable information and protected health information including their Social Security numbers, medical diagnoses, treatment plans, dates of birth, email addresses and health insurance information. Plaintiffs allege that Teladoc shared this private and sensitive information with third parties, such as Facebook, through pixels and other technologies on its website—without consent.

The case, captioned Pattison et al v. Teladoc Health, Inc. and assigned case number 7:23-cv-11305-NSR, is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, White Plains division.