{"id":256942,"date":"2026-05-27T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T11:40:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:40:19","slug":"abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Labs Settles Illinois Medical History Privacy Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit\">Abbott Labs Settles Illinois Medical History Privacy Lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit\">https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 11:02:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.bloomberglaw.com\">news.bloomberglaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Abbott Laboratories settled a proposed Illinois Genetic Information Privacy Act class suit brought by a worker who alleged that the healthcare company asked about his family\u2019s history of diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff Quentin Nixon-Cobb\u2019s claim in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois was part of a series of lawsuits against employers who requested applicants provide them with their family medical history.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"bwUnorderedList\">\n<li>Nixon-Cobb dismissed the suit with prejudice, according to a Tuesday filing<\/li>\n<li>The parties finalized a settlement agreement in April, according to a May 19 status report that said a payment was being processed<\/li>\n<li>Counsel for the parties &#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott Labs Settles Illinois Medical History Privacy Lawsuit https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/litigation\/abbott-labs-settles-illinois-medical-history-privacy-lawsuit Publish Date: 2026-05-27 11:02:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":256943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/bwrite-static.bloombergindustry.com\/dims4\/default\/d4f7505\/2147483647\/crop\/4000x1542+0+347\/resize\/960x370%3E\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbloomberg-bna-brightspot.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2F96%2Fc8%2F0201e8d54119a6fbb7c7c9e463db%2Ffeb9-abbott.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256944,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256942\/revisions\/256944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}