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Carlton Fields

Square Peg, Round Hole: 6th Circuit Affirms Finding That Cyber Claims Are Not Covered by CGL Policies

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In Home Depot Inc. v. Steadfast Insurance Co., Home Depot learned the hard way a rule every DIY enthusiast knows: measure twice, cut once. It appears Home Depot’s measurements were off when it sized up its insurance needs,...more

Morgan Lewis - Tech & Sourcing

The Devil Is in the Details: Key Thoughts on Compliance Provisions

In the current, highly competitive, business landscape, businesses face the challenge of optimizing efficiency, enhancing productivity, and reducing costs, all while maintaining the quality of their services. One of the...more

Goodwin

Tips for Maximizing Your Cyber Insurance Program

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A strong cyber insurance program is a critical risk management tool for companies, regardless of size or industry focus. When properly crafted, cyber insurance should protect a company against the costs of investigating cyber...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Does Cyber Insurance Pay Out?

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Over the last decade, one of the most common gripes I’ve heard about cyber insurance is that policies “don’t pay out.” Cyber coverage is often perceived as being illusory and riddled with “gotcha” clauses. This isn’t the...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Guide to D&O Insurance for IPO and Direct Listing Companies, 2025 Edition

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Even though there was an uptick in IPO activity in 2024, many companies have taken a wait-and-see approach and deferred their public debuts to next year. Still, going public in 2025 will come with challenges, such as...more

Wiley Rein LLP

No Duty to Defend BIPA Lawsuit Given Absence of Data Breach or Security Failure

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The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, applying Illinois law, has held that a cyber policy did not afford coverage for an underlying lawsuit alleging violations of the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)...more

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The Voluntary Parting Exclusion: What You Need to Know

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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

J.S. Held

Strategies to Avoid Cyber Insurance Claim Challenges: Part I

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Cyber risk is now a normal part of our personal and professional lives. When companies suffer a cyber incident, they often look to their insurance policy for coverage to help mitigate the financial exposure. Additional...more

K&L Gates LLP

CrowdStrike IT Outage: Wave of Business Interruption Claims Expected

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Businesses, public services, and computer users across the world faced disruption as a result of the major CrowdStrike information technology (IT) outage, which is being coined by many as one of the largest and worst cyber...more

Jenner & Block

Client Alert: The State of the Insurance Market for Cyber Incidents — Important Developments from 2023 and Looking Ahead in 2024

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As businesses have increasingly recognized the importance of obtaining insurance coverage specific to cyber incidents, so too have insurers increasingly recognized the risks inherent in providing such coverage - particularly...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

“Keeping Track” of Your Cyber (and Other) Coverage Part II

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On this episode of Don't Take No for An Answer, host, Lynda A. Bennett, Partner and Chair of Lowenstein’s Insurance Recovery Group, is joined by David Anderson, Vice President, Cyber Liability at Woodruff Sawyer, and Heather...more

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RWI Market Turning to Unlikely Industries for New Deals: Health Care RWI Terms & Conditions Improving

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Representations and Warranties Insurance (RWI) has increasingly become a tool employed by both Buyers and Sellers to shift away from the traditional indemnification model of escrows or other mechanisms that could tie up...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Top 5 Takeaways from NYDFS $1.2 Million Fine in Cybersecurity Case

On May 1, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS” or “Department”) and a trading platform entered into a consent order to resolve deficiencies identified during examinations conducted in 2018 and 2020. The...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Cyber risk strategy: State-backed cyber attacks and trends in cyber policies and risk management

Lloyds Market Bulletin Y5381 - Back in March 2022, we detailed the significant risks to both insureds and insurers posed by unclear cyber insurance policy wordings, with a particular focus on war exclusion clauses in the...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Email Scam Losses May Find Recourse Via Cyber Or Business Interruption Coverage

Losses arising from email scams are usually covered, if at all, under a company’s crime policy. But a recent decision from The District Court in Minnesota suggests that recourse may also be found under an insured’s cyber or...more

Carlton Fields

Federal Court Rules “Unauthorized Network Access Exclusion” Precludes Coverage for $1.3M Payment From Hacker’s Fraudulent Email

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that an insurance policy issued by Federal Insurance Co. excluded coverage for the transmission of $1.3 million by the insured in response to an email...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Cyber Insurance Policies May Not Cover Phishing Attack Funds Diversion

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals is considering an appeal from the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida , in which the District Court ruled that a cyber insurance policy did not cover diversion...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

Merck and International Indemnity v ACE (et al.): war exclusion clauses in an age of cyber warfare

Companies should be aware that, as a result of increasing geopolitical instability, there is a heightened risk of cyber-attacks. Particularly in light of the Merck case, they should therefore consider closely examining the...more

Cooley LLP

Ninth Circuit’s Fraudulent Payments Coverage Ruling Has Implications for Cyber Insurance Purchasers

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In a decision with significant implications for policyholders seeking coverage for social engineering scams and cybercrime losses, the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held in Ernst and Haas Management Company, Inc....more

Blank Rome LLP

The War Exclusion and State-Sponsored Cyberattacks: The Battle Is Won but Is the War Over?

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Sovereign nation states have been behind (or suspected of being behind) some of the worst cyberattacks. When a cyberattack has state involvement, the inevitable question is whether it constitutes an act of war. The answer can...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Four New Cyber War Exclusions from Lloyd’s Market Association

The Lloyd’s Market Association (the “LMA”) recently released four model clauses to exclude coverage for “war” from cyber insurance policies. The exclusions align with the requirement that all insurance policies written at...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Ransomware Attacks Continue to Cause More Underwriter Scrutiny

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Continued widespread cyber attacks have leaders in just about every industry wary and watchful, and insurance underwriters are no exception. Given the increase in claims from recent ransomware attacks, cyber insurers are...more

Bilzin Sumberg

Cyber Insurance Carriers, Increasingly Targeted by Hackers, Impose New Coverage Conditions

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Insurers that offer coverage for cyberattacks find themselves playing both offense and defense lately. As they await possible action by Congress to enact federal cybersecurity legislation, the insurance industry has gone on...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

New York’s DFS Publishes A Cyber Insurance Risk Framework

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Keypoint: New York’s Division of Financial Services (DFS) now requires Property and Casualty Insurers writing cyber insurance to comply with the Division’s Cyber Insurance Risk Framework to manage their risk. In her...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Insights for Insurers

Beyond Data Breach: Evaluating Coverage for Misuse of Information Claims

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

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