Over the last 18 months, a new privacy litigation battlefront has emerged: Website operators across a range of industries find themselves inundated with class action suits or requests for arbitration based on alleged...more
Over the past decade, the use of biometrics – measurements of people’s unique physical, physiological, biological, or behavioral characteristics – in smartphones, wearable technology, and employee timekeeping devices grew...more
Being an innovative business—especially involving artificial intelligence (AI)—comes with its challenges and legal risks. As AI applications continue to advance and become integrated into various business models and...more
To date, employee data has been largely exempt from the requirements of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA). However, effective January 1, 2023, the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), will remove the...more
Being an innovative business comes with its challenges and legal risks. In recent years, there has been a major increase in cyber attacks, and this is a real risk for every business. Aside from the cyber attack itself,...more
COVID-19 and IT service provider contracts: A checklist for force majeure events -
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the various restrictions that have been implemented in response to it, are causing extraordinary business...more
The COVID-19, and the various restrictions that have been implemented in response to it, are causing extraordinary business disruptions. Many organizations have had to modify their operational controls and accommodate a shift...more
As a global insurance industry team, we aim to follow industry trends and developments as closely as possible in order to deliver well informed perspectives and thought leadership to our clients and contacts.
In the newly...more
5/22/2019
/ Artificial Intelligence ,
Business Transfer Agreements ,
China ,
Climate Change ,
Data Protection ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
Health Insurance ,
Insurance Regulations ,
Reinsurance ,
Solvency II ,
Sustainable Business Practices ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
This post discusses litigation exposure that businesses collecting personal information about California consumers should consider in the wake of the California Legislature’s passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act of...more
9/28/2018
/ Business Litigation ,
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) ,
Consumer Information ,
Consumer Protection Laws ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Cybersecurity ,
Data Breach ,
Data Protection ,
Private Right of Action ,
State and Local Government ,
Unfair Competition Law (UCL)
The six-year fight over the type of harm a plaintiff must allege to satisfy the “injury in fact” requirement for lawsuits alleging false reporting of credit information took its latest turn this week. On Tuesday, August 15,...more