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

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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

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules that Employers can be Held Liable for Failing to Secure Employee Data

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In a groundbreaking decision published on November 21, 2018, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held, for the first time, that employers must exercise reasonable care to safeguard employee personal information stored on an...more

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Happy Thanksgiving Pennsylvania Businesses and Employers – This Year, The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Is Serving Up Increased...

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While most Americans prepared for the Thanksgiving holiday, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issued an opinion that establishes new precedent in the ever-developing area of cybersecurity law, and also limits a longstanding tort...more

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Employees Who Suffer Only Economic Losses From a Data Breach Cannot Sustain a Negligence Claim Against Their Employer

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Creating a private cause of action in negligence for data breaches could result in the filing each year of possibly hundreds of thousands of lawsuits by persons whose confidential information may be in the hands of third...more

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