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Fraud Corporate Counsel Email

Fraud is the making of false representations or engaging in deceptive behavior in order to unlawfully secure financial or personal gain. 
Foodman CPAs & Advisors

CTA Fraud Alert From FinCEN

FinCEN has learned of fraudulent attempts to solicit information from individuals and entities who may be subject to reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). Scammers are on the hunt to steal...more

Wiley Rein LLP

Court Holds Social Engineering Fraud Does Not Trigger Computer Fraud Coverage

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The United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, applying Minnesota law, has held that an insured’s loss resulting from the insured’s payment of fraudulent invoices received from a bad actor who hacked into the...more

Jones Day

Insurance Coverage for Social Engineering Crimes—How to Avoid Being Victimized Twice

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The Situation: Businesses are increasingly at risk of social engineering crimes, and often their commercial insurance policies do not provide the full protection that they expected. The Result: Three recent decisions...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

Social Engineering Scam Covered By Cyber Insurance

The Sixth Circuit recently entered a ruling in American Tooling Center, Inc. v. Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. of America, 2018 WL 3404708 (6th Cir. July 13, 2018), soundly rejecting a cyber carrier’s extremely narrow...more

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Court Holds Crime Policy Covers Business Compromise Email Loss

The “business compromise email” is what the FBI calls the “$5 billion scam,” but apparently an insurance company did not agree with an insured company that they had been the victim of a crime....more

King & Spalding

Another Cyber Coverage Gap? Some Carriers Resisting Coverage Of Commercial Cyber Fraud

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In the fast-developing world of cyber threats and corresponding cyber coverage, at least two insurance carriers are pushing back against covering losses arising out the transfer of funds to cyber fraudsters after employees...more

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