In a significant ruling addressing the scope of the attorney-client privilege and work product doctrine in a data breach case, a Federal judge in Oregon ordered Premera Blue Cross, the Washington-based healthcare services...more
11/10/2017
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Corporate Counsel ,
Cyber Attacks ,
Data Breach ,
Discovery ,
Health Insurance ,
HIPAA Breach ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PHI ,
Premera Blue Cross ,
Putative Class Actions ,
Work-Product Doctrine
This week, in the first post-Spokeo circuit court decision to address standing in a data-breach class action, the Sixth Circuit joined the Seventh Circuit in holding that plaintiffs whose sensitive personal information has...more
9/16/2016
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Bailments ,
Class Action ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Data Breach ,
Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) ,
Hackers ,
Identity Theft ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Nationwide Insurance Co. ,
Negligence ,
Neiman Marcus ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
PF Chang's ,
Popular ,
Spokeo v Robins ,
Standing
In a test of the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to police cybersecurity, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday ruled that the agency has broad power to take action against private sector companies which fail to...more
When hackers breach a business’s systems, class actions are sure to follow. Often, however, these suits have faltered right out of the starting gate. Citing the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision in Clapper v. Amnesty...more