David S. Almeida, Founder and Managing Partner of Almeida Law Group LLC, was recently appointed by US District Court Judge Matthew F. Kennelly, along with Gary M. Klinger of Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman PLLC, to serve as Interim Co-Lead Class Counsel in a consolidated class action lawsuit against Superior Air-Ground Ambulance, Inc. 

The class action lawsuit stems from a data security incident in which highly sensitive private information, including the Social Security numbers of over 858,000 individuals, was exposed due to Superior Ambulance’s failure to implement and follow basic security procedures. Superior is a corporation that provides ambulance and other healthcare-related travel services. According to its website, it currently has “over 3,000 employees and provides EMS in five states.” As part of Superior Ambulance’s business, it collects a treasure-trove of data from its patients, including names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, driver’s licenses, health and health insurance information, and financial data. 

Plaintiffs allege that due to Superior Ambulance’s negligence, they are now at a significantly increased and certainly impending risk of fraud, identity theft, misappropriation of health insurance benefits, intrusion of their health privacy, Private Information being disseminated on the dark web, and similar forms of criminal mischief—a risk that may last for the rest of their lives.

The case, captioned Spann v. Superior Air-Ground Ambulance Service, Inc. and assigned case number 1:24-cv-04704, is currently pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.