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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
The US Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received more than 880,000 cybercrime complaints in 2023. Overall financial losses from cybercrime last year reached $12.5 billion, a record-setting year-over-year increase of...more
In Citizens Ins. Co. of Amer. v. Thermoflex Waukegan, LLC no. 20-05980 (N.D. Ill. Mar. 1, 2022), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois rejected the application of three separate general...more
The Illinois Supreme Court ruled late last week in favor of a company seeking insurance coverage for defense of a lawsuit alleging the company had violated the Illinois Biometric Privacy Act (BIPA). The ruling in the case,...more
New and comprehensive privacy and cyber regulations continue to proliferate across the globe. These are not your father’s data breach notification laws. The scope of information included within these mandates has expanded...more
An Illinois state appellate court recently ruled that a customer's biometric privacy class action claims against an insured tanning salon potentially fell within two insurer's personal injury coverage. See, West Bend Mutual...more
The Fourth Circuit recently affirmed a district court ruling that the Privacy exclusion in a series of business liability policies bars coverage for a claim arising out of the insured law firm’s alleged violation of the...more
Now that the CCPA is in effect, some companies will need to revise their policies. The cyber insurance markets are beginning to adapt to the new California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which went into effect on January 1. ...more
This week in Horn v. Liberty Insurance Underwriters, Inc., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 90194 (S.D. Fla. May 30, 2019), the Florida district court held that an invasion of privacy exclusion under a claims-made policy prohibited...more
Cyber due diligence is quickly becoming the “new normal” for buyers in M&A transactions as they seek to protect themselves against cyber risk. Cyber due diligence, however, is only part of the solution. Many sophisticated...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
On May 7, Columbia Casualty Company, an insurance company, filed one of the first lawsuits by an insurer seeking to deny coverage for a privacy class action under a cyber insurance policy. Why is this significant? As the...more