AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights Podcast - Episode 4: What to Do When Insurance Companies Deny Behavioral Health Claims
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
Coverage Issues Arising Out of Assault and Battery Claims
Long-Term Effects of Russia/Ukraine on Insurance
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 3 – Breaking the Log Jam
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 2 – What Goes on in Mediation?
Mediating Complex Insurance Coverage Disputes Series Part 1 – Preparing For The Mediation
Out With a Bang: Current State of Play on Coverage for COVID-Related Losses
Settling a Claim: Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable
NGE OnDemand: The Importance of Timely Reporting Occurrences, Claims and Suits to Insurers with Paul Walker-Bright
Lowenstein’s New Insurance Recovery Podcast Series, “Don’t Take No for an Answer”
Ledgers and Law: Roadblocks Facing the Cannabis Industry
Subro Sense - The ABC's of RCV and ACV
WEBINAR: COVID-19 Insurance Coverage Class Actions
What to Do When Your Insurance Carrier Says No: How to Protect Yourself from Coverage Denials
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The 2014 Home Depot data breach was one of the more notorious cyberattacks. A decade later, litigation over that incident continues. The Sixth Circuit recently decided whether an electronic data exclusion cleared insurers...more
In the last week of December 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court published a much-anticipated decision in the EMOI Services LLC v. Owners Insurance Co. case. The decision was bold, and the court made no attempt to limit its holding...more
Our lives and the products and devices we use become more dependent on data by the day. As a result, cyberattacks and data breaches present everchanging risks to companies and individuals, and the importance of applicable...more
The “war” exclusion has gotten more attention over the past couple of weeks in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For good reason. This exclusion, common in property and liability policies alike, typically eliminates...more
Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum speak on this Cyberside Chat to discuss the recent Merck & Co. cyber insurance win and how this impacts future wars fought with cyber weapons such as the conflict in Ukraine. This case sets a...more
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Social engineering scams seeking to deceive companies into making wire transfers to fraudulent bank accounts continue to plague companies. According to the FBI, social engineering fraud costs businesses billions of dollars...more
An insurer recently secured a ruling that it had no obligation to cover a loss incurred as a result of an email phishing scam. In Midlothian Enterprises, Inc. v. Owners Insurance Company, No. 3:19-cv-51 (E.D. Va. Feb. 20,...more
A New Jersey federal district court held last week that losses arising out of a phishing scam were not covered under a bank's Financial Institutions Bond. In Crown Bank JJR Holding Co. v. Great Am. Ins. Co., 2020 U.S. Dist....more
With unprecedented activity online, cybercrime is growing in frequency, sophistication and aggregate effect. Despite the increased visibility of cybercrime, cybersecurity continues to lag behind this curve. Cybercriminals...more
As cyber risks continue to proliferate, issues concerning coverage for those exposures under non-cyber or "traditional" property and casualty policies are creating uncertainty for both the insurance industry and for...more
Cyberattacks are an increasingly frequent and costly risk faced by almost every business today. While the availability and scope of cyber-specific insurance has developed exponentially over the past few years, it is important...more
Companies of all sizes have fallen victim to attacks whereby fraudsters will use deceptive communications, such as spoofed emails, to trick an employee into transferring money into the fraudsters’ control. While these...more
With the expansion of privacy legislation—from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe to the coming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States—cyber liability insurance is taking on increased...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine a declaration on ethical considerations for artificial intelligence, the annual joint review of the Privacy Shield, a new lawsuit from a snack food...more
In this month's edition of our Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we examine the European Data Protection Board's published opinions on data protection impact assessments, an Ohio court's ruling that bitcoin is covered insured...more
Issues of digital privacy are multi-faceted and extend far beyond the now-routine data breaches that make headlines. The digital collection, use, and storage of biometric information (fingerprints, retinal or iris scans,...more
Remember the “good” ol’ days when the run-of-the-mill theft involved someone physically taking something tangible? That is so 20th century. Now, thieves and fraudsters are able to use computers and the internet to carry out...more
The FBI continues to warn that losses are on the rise from business email compromise (BEC) or “social engineering” schemes, which the Bureau describes as: Carried out by transnational criminal organizations that employ...more
This week Rosen Millennium Technology Group, the sister company to Rosen Hotels & Resorts, was sued by its insurance company, St. Paul Fire & Marine, which is denying coverage for a data breach that was discovered in 2016. ...more
The growing percentage of businesses that purchase cyber security and data privacy insurance portends a growing number of claims and, inevitably, litigation over some of those claims. Wells Fargo’s 2015 Cyber Security and...more
In the fast-developing world of cyber threats and corresponding cyber coverage, at least two insurance carriers are pushing back against covering losses arising out the transfer of funds to cyber fraudsters after employees...more