Data Security, Reasonable Care, Economic Loss Doctrine

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds That Employers Have Duty to Protect Their Employees’ Data

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 9/3/2019

Dittman v. UPMC, 196 A.3d 1036 (Pa. 2018). The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds that employers have a legal duty to use reasonable care to safeguard sensitive personal information of their employees when the employer chooses...more

Lawsuit Alert: New State Law Affirmative Duty to Safeguard Personal Data

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/3/2019

Now a business that was hacked may be successfully sued under state common law by data subjects whose information was compromised in the crime. For the first time, a state supreme court has held that a company that was...more

Data Breach Liability for Pennsylvania Employers Expands – Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds that Employers Have a Duty of Care to...

Fisher Phillips on 12/31/2018

Data breach liability for Pennsylvania employers of all sizes expanded with a recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision in Dittman v. UPMC. __ A.3d __, No. 43 WAP 2017, 2018 WL 6072199 (Pa. 2018). The Pennsylvania Supreme...more

Pennsylvania High Court’s Dittman Ruling Makes It Harder To Dismiss Data Breach Actions

Fenwick & West LLP on 12/20/2018

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have “a legal duty to safeguard” the personal data of their employees which is stored on internet-accessible computer systems and that the economic loss doctrine...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers Have an Affirmative Duty to Protect Workers’ Personal Data from Cybercriminals:...

Snell & Wilmer on 12/3/2018

In a landmark decision with far-reaching implication, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently held that employers have an affirmative duty to protect their employees’ personal information from criminal hacking. In particular,...more

PA Supreme Court: Businesses Have Duty to Safeguard Sensitive Employee Information

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/28/2018

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has drastically changed the data breach litigation landscape by holding that an employer has a common law duty to use reasonable care to safeguard its employees' personal information stored on...more