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Anticipating Artificial Insurer Defenses: Maximizing Insurance Coverage for AI Exposures

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The Situation: The global market for artificial intelligence ("AI") technologies is projected to surpass $1 trillion by 2030....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

Robinson+Cole Construction Law Zone

Cyber Insurance for the Construction Industry

Cyber-crime is an increasingly prominent threat to many industries, and construction is no exception. With the growing use of digital technologies in what was once a primarily “offline” industry, cyber-attacks can pose a...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

Akerman LLP - Health Law Rx

Healthcare Cyber Insurance? Fortify Your Defenses

Healthcare breaches, including ransomware attacks, continue to increase. As a result, many healthcare organizations seeking cyber coverage to help defray the costs associated with a ransomware attack or other data incident...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

Woodruff Sawyer

Looking Ahead to 2022 Cyber Insurance Expectations For The Coming Year

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1.0 CYBER MARKET UPDATE - 1.1 US Market Update - To call 2021 anything other than a sea change in the cyber insurance world would be an understatement. Indeed, nearly all cyber insurance renewals saw increases in...more

Woodruff Sawyer

Captive Insurance as a Solution for the Tough Cyber Market

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The cyber insurance landscape has never been more challenging for corporate insurance buyers. Increased retentions, huge premium increases, and narrowed coverage terms all have corporations searching for alternative solutions...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

Akerman LLP

The New NYDFS Cyber Insurance Risk Framework – Required Reading for Insurers and Insureds

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The New York Department of Financial Services ("NYDFS") recently released its Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (the “Framework”), which provides best practices for managing cyber insurance risk....more

Proskauer Rose LLP

Cyber Insurance Needs in the Pandemic Landscape

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While most of society struggles to flatten the curve, treat the sick and restart the economy, regrettably, some bad actors have used the COVID-19 emergency as an opportunity to exploit vulnerabilities for personal gain. One...more

Carlton Fields

Ransomware Attack Replacement Costs Are Covered “Direct Physical Loss or Damage” Under Standard Business Owner’s Policy, According...

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A Maryland federal court recently weighed in on the still-murky world of insurance coverage for cybersecurity losses, finding replacement costs necessitated by a ransomware attack were “direct physical loss or damage” to a...more

Butler Snow LLP

Failure to prevent a data breach is not likely to be covered by a traditional CGL insurance policy.

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In this high tech era we live in, creating, storing and using data is commonplace. The sheer quantity and scope of data has made protecting that data of paramount importance. Yet, every day we hear about another data...more

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider

The Tricky World of Cyberliability Insurance

2018 was the year of hearing from clients that they are convinced that they “have cyberliability insurance” to finding out that they really don’t have the coverage that they need for the most common cyber risks....more

Lowndes

Don’t Expect Commercial General Liability Insurance Policies to Protect Against Cyber Breach or Crime

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Almost a year after Middle District Judge Mary Scriven’s instructive decision in Innovak Int’l, Inc. v. Hanover Ins. Co. in which she declined to hold that a traditional commercial general liability (CGL) policy, as drafted,...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

2018 Allianz Risk Barometer Highlights Business Interruption and Cyber as Two Most Important Risks of New Year

Allianz’s yearly survey of nearly 2,000 risk experts from 80 countries highlights business interruption and cyber incidents as the top two major threats for companies through 2018 and beyond. Forty-two percent of responses...more

Mintz - Privacy & Cybersecurity Viewpoints

Global Ransomware Attack Update

We’ve been following the latest on the WannaCry ransomware attack that we first told you about over the weekend. A feared “second strike” did not materialize today, but victimized firms in over 100 countries are still...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Latest Cyber Attack a Wake-up Call: What are your company’s IoT exposures?

The Internet of Things gives rise to many risks and exposures that companies and their insurers were not thinking about as recently as a couple years ago, and probably aren’t fully cognizant of today....more

Locke Lord LLP

Cyber-Attacks on Aviation Industry Rising; Traditional Aviation Insurance Policies Might Not Provide Coverage

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What has prompted an uptick in cyber-attacks on airports and airlines operations? CB: Cyber-attacks are on the rise worldwide against all industries. The aviation industry – including airports and airlines – are not...more

Carlton Fields

Phishing for Cybersecurity Coverage: When is a Fraud a “Computer Fraud”?

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In late June, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling that there was no coverage for a health insurance company policyholder, under a “Computer Systems Fraud” rider issued by its insurer, for an underlying...more

K&L Gates LLP

The Devil in the “Cyber” Insurance Details

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There’s a tempest amidst the recent spring shower of “cyber” insurance cases. It isn’t the Recall Total case reported the week before last, or the Travelers v. Federal Recovery Services case reported the week before. While...more

Smith Anderson

Cybersecurity Insurance – One Size Does Not Fit All

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With headlines of data breach incidents becoming a weekly, if not daily occurrence, it’s not surprising that many companies are considering whether they should purchase cybersecurity insurance, if they haven’t already. The...more

Zelle  LLP

Looking At Angles Of Liability After A Cyberattack

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All employers have personnel data on their information technology systems and devices. This data includes personally identifiable information such as names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers of employees and...more

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