AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Three - Cybersecurity Insurance: Coverage Challenges and Changes
AI Talk With Juliana Neelbauer - Episode Two - Cybersecurity Insurance: The New Frontier of Risk Management
Law Brief®: Rich Schoenstein and Annmarie Giblin Discuss Cyber Law
Cracking the Code: Getting the Most Out of Your Cyber Insurance Policy
Cybersecurity Threats Facing Food and Agribusiness Companies & the Preparation and Protection Safeguards to Help Mitigate Them
Cyber Insurance - An Essential Component to Your Business
London’s Nation-State Attack Exclusion: Game Changer For The Cyber Insurance Market or An Opportunity For Competition Within the Market?
The Significance of Operational Technology in Cyber Insurance Underwriting – Part 2
The Downstream Impact of Ransomware on Cyber Insurance Underwriting – Part 1
Coverage Considerations for Ransomware & Cyber Attacks
Cyber Insurance Changes in the Aftermath of Log4j
Cyberside Chats: There is a war in Europe. What does that mean for your cyber insurance policy?
How Patching log4J Can Mitigate Regulatory and Insurance Issues
Wait, that’s covered? Insurability of Fines and Penalties Flowing From a Cybersecurity Breach
Takeaways From Recent Claims Against Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook – Mitigating the Heightened Risk of Privacy Suits Against Individual Directors and Officers
No Password Required: A Cyber Practice Leader and Natural Optimist Who Believes Every Day Is the Best Day
Ransomware and Cyber Insurance: The good, the bad, and why your insurance data is a target for hackers (with Jacob Ingerslev)
Debra Geroux and Scott Wrobel on Responding to Data Breaches
Cyber Insurance Coverage Market: A House of Cards or Temporary Plateau?
NGE On Demand: Insurance and Indemnity Issues for Family Offices with Angela Elbert
Cyber risk has grown demonstrably in frequency and severity in the past 10 years—and, in tandem, the cyber insurance policy has grown in breadth and complexity. This past year, a record number of organizations fell victim to...more
At this point, your IT department has almost certainly warned you to approach your e-mail inbox with skepticism--for good reason. Cybercriminals regularly and effectively impersonate our legitimate contacts for illegitimate...more
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 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, applying Georgia law, has held that the electronic data exclusion in commercial general liability (CGL) policies issued to a retail store company precluded coverage...more
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
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
Cyberattacks and technology disruptions in healthcare don’t just cost organizations financially — they can threaten patient safety and put organizational reputations at risk. How ready is your organization for a potential...more
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
In Part I of this series, we posed a series of questions to consider when purchasing cyber insurance. Our approach was deliberate: the right questions help get you the right insurance to address cyber risks facing your...more
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
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
The Superior Court of Delaware, applying Delaware law, has dismissed two lawsuits filed by nine insurance companies seeking to recover amounts they paid under cyber liability policies from a software company whose customers...more
Commercial insurance pricing trends in the first quarter of 2024 followed many of the same patterns as last year. Insurance buyers can still expect competitive premiums in D&O and Cyber despite several insurers publicly...more
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, applying Arkansas law, has held that a cyber policy’s business interruption coverage should not result in a windfall for an...more
On May 8, 2024, Paul Hastings hosted the Cybersecurity Law Workshop at this spring’s Privacy + Security Forum featuring a panel on cybersecurity insurance trends and insights. The panel was moderated by Paul Hastings’ David...more
The Fifth Circuit added to the emerging body of case law addressing the recovery of business income losses in the cyber insurance coverage context to kick-start 2024 in Southwest Airlines Company v. Liberty Insurance. ...more
The coverage dispute in Home Depot, Inc., et al v. Steadfast Insurance Company, et al. arises out of a 2014 data breach of millions of Home Depot’s customers’ payment information. As a result of the breach, the financial...more
The Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, applying Illinois law, has held that two general liability insurers do not owe a duty to defend an insured in a lawsuit alleging Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA)...more
Twenty years ago the federal government designated October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month, part of an early effort to promote a wider appreciation of computer-related threats to business and government operations and to...more
In this episode of “Don't Take No for an Answer,” host Lynda A. Bennett is joined by David Anderson, Vice President of Cyber at Woodruff Sawyer, and Heather Weaver, counsel in Lowenstein’s Insurance Recovery Group, to discuss...more
In a win for Wiley’s clients, a Louisiana federal court, applying Louisiana law, has held that an insured’s contractual obligation to remit funds to a lender did not constitute a Claim under a cyber policy, and that vehicle...more
Insurance coverage for cyberattacks can be tricky for anyone to navigate, including lawyers. To illustrate this point, a case in New Jersey caught my eye that I thought would be an interesting read for our followers who are...more
A consistent pattern emerges in data breach and cyber-attack cases when companies turn to their insurers for coverage after such incidents. Whether they possess specialized cyber insurance or not, insurers often decline...more
Courts took up some interesting insurance questions this past month. Here’s some we address in our June Insurance Update. When a government sponsored cyberattack infects computers worldwide, does the war exclusion apply? ...more
A recent appellate court decision could help policyholders secure insurance coverage for losses arising out of state-sponsored cyberattacks. In Merck & Co., Inc. v. ACE American Ins. Co., the Superior Court of New Jersey...more