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A three-year moratorium on construction of new nursing home beds sailed through the Indiana Senate 35-14 on Feb. 3. Senate Bill 460 now moves to the House, where it will be sponsored by Rep. Tim Brown, R-Crawfordsville, the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary. The moratorium  moved easily through the Senate a year ago before it was hotly debated in the House, and ultimately died in an 11th-hour decision by House Republicans. Supporters say the moratorium is needed to stabilize finances of nursing home operators, who have faced a building blitz from Carmel-based developer Mainstreet. But Mainstreet and its supporters say the moratorium is simply propping up facilities that are more than 35 years old and need to be replaced to meet changing health care needs.

Anthem Inc. was hit with three consumer lawsuits in federal court in Indiana, and others in other states, after it disclosed Feb. 5 that hackers obtained sensitive data on about 80 million of current and former customers. The first Hoosier to sue was Noblesville resident Karen Meadows, a current Anthem policyholder, who said she would not have purchased Anthem insurance had she known the company was not adequately protecting her information. Anthem, the second-biggest U.S. health insurer by market value, said its computer system had been targeted in a sophisticated attack, according to Bloomberg News. The FBI is probing the breach, which people familiar with the matter say includes evidence pointing to Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The Anthem attack is on a similar scale to hacks of customer data from Target Corp. in 2013 and Home Depot Inc. last year in terms of the number of people affected. The stolen information includes street and email addresses and employee data including income, Anthem said in an email. Target has spent $248 million responding to lawsuits following its breach.

A Cuban immigrant was sentenced Feb. 5 to more than six years in prison for his role in the 2010 theft of more than $50 million in Eli Lilly and Co. drugs from a Connecticut warehouse, according to the Associated Press. Yosmany "El Gato" Nunez, the first of five defendants to be sentenced in the case, also faces a deportation order. The robbers traveled from Florida and broke into the Lilly warehouse by cutting a hole in the roof, disabling the alarm system and using warehouse forklifts to load pallets of pharmaceuticals into a truck to bring them back to Miami, according to prosecutors. The drugs—including Zyprexa, Cymbalta and Prozac—had a wholesale value between $50 million and $100 million. Four other defendants have pleaded guilty in the heist.