HCA Healthcare, a for-profit health care services company, and HCA Inc. were hit with a data breach class action on Tuesday in Tennessee Middle District Court. The suit, which accuses the defendants of failing to implement adequate data security measures, arises from a July 2023 breach impacting the personal identifiable and protected health information of approximately 11 million patients. The suit is backed by Stranch, Jennings & Garvey and Zimmerman Reed. It's the fifth one of its kind filed by patients in that court since mid-July and the third one filed this week, with the other two this week filed by Arthur Dekenipp and Kelsey Hinds. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendants. The latest case is 3:23-cv-00789, Hudson v. HCA Inc. et al.