Eager to keep and permanently use all of the “protected health information,” or PHI, it was able to hoover-up about plaintiffs during personal injury litigation — despite a federal regulation called the “privacy rule” (issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA) that (1) prohibits parties from using protected health information “for any purpose other than the litigation or proceeding for which such information was requested” and (2) requires the …