A health insurer is notifying patients, including some in Ohio, about a breach that revealed the HIV status of patients in several states.
Two legal organizations, Legal Action Center and the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, said Aetna revealed the HIV status of patients by mailing information on buying HIV prescriptions in envelopes with large, clear windows that showed the contents.
The groups sent Aetna a cease-and-desist letter to have the insurer show that corrective action is being taken, according to the Associated Press.
Aetna says that “this type of mistake is unacceptable” and that the company is reviewing processes to ensure it never happens again.
Besides Ohio, patients were also in Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
RESTAURANT
New Lock 27 location to open soon
The Lock 27 brewery and restaurant in downtown Dayton is ready to throw out the first pitch.
The highly anticipated debut of the brewery and restaurant’s second — and much larger — location will come on Labor Day, Monday Sept. 4, Lock 27 founder Steve Barnhart said. The pub will host some “soft-open” activities next week, Barnhart said, prior to opening to the public fully on Labor Day.
The brewery and restaurant on East Monument Avenue occupies about 12,000 square feet of the Delco Building’s basement and first floor. It will open with about 50 employees, Barnhart has said. The original Lock 27 location on Ohio 48 in south Centerville remains open.
Lock 27 will be the third restaurant/beer pub to open in the space of about two months within a stone's throw of the Dayton Dragon's baseball stadium, joining Canal Street Arcade and Deli and Mudlick Tap House. But Lock 27 is a working brewery in addition to offering food service, and it shares a main plaza with Fifth Third Field, overlooking the Dayton Dragons' stadium.
The Lock 27 brewpub will seat about 120 to 150, and when it is fully up and running, will serve lunch and dinner seven days a week, Barnhart has said.
Barnhart is a native of Chicago who moved to the Dayton area in 1984. He spent 15 years working in corporate development at NCR. An avid home-brewer since 1997, Barnhart opened Lock 27 in Centerville in June 2013. MARK FISHER
REAL ESTATE
LA company buys apartment complex
A Los Angeles-based commercial real estate management business has made a Dayton apartment complex part of its management portfolio.
The company, National Asset Services, said it has assumed asset management responsibility for a 351-unit, 302,755 square-foot multi-family property located about four miles northwest of downtown Dayton, the Bridges of Pine Creek.
The complex is found in the 3700 block of Cornell Drive in Dayton.
The company said it will oversee the latter phases of an “extensive property redevelopment project” at the site.
National Asset Services is a commercial real estate management company that works with more than 90 investment groups on a nationwide portfolio valued at over $2 billion, the company said. THOMAS GNAU
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