The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Flood Basics still causing pain for some
The Standard Formula Podcast | Using an Internal Model to Calculate the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
Best Practices for Negotiating Manuscript Exclusions
AGG Talks: Healthcare Insights - Episode 1: A Primer for Providers When Insurance Companies Refuse to Pay
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Technical Provisions
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 2)
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV | Bad Faith Law
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
D&O Insurance Myths (Part 1)
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Solvency II Back to Basics: Third Country Branches and Cross-Border Provision of Services
Standard Formula Podcast | Reinsurance and Risk Transfer: Risk Mitigation Under the Solvency II Regime
Hinshaw Releases Second Edition of Duty to Defend: A Fifty-State Survey
Hinshaw Insurance Law TV – Transaction Insurance Solutions
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding Insurance Resolution Regimes
The Risk Roundtable: Demystifying the Intersection Between NJ Workers' Comp & Employment Practice Liability
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Tax Insurance 101
Insurance for the Cannabis Industry: Risks & Challenges
On this episode of “Don’t Take No for An Answer,” Lynda A. Bennett, Chair of Lowenstein’s Insurance Recovery Group, speaks with David Anderson, Vice President of Cyber at Woodruff Sawyer, about the difference between...more
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
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Privacy Protections (H) Working Group (the “Working Group”) has continued its charge to draft a new or revised model law aimed at standardizing privacy protections...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
Welcome to our seventh 2024 issue of Decoded - our technology law insights e-newsletter. We have a few events we want to pass along to those interested in technology, but also other areas of law and business. ...more
On May 15, 2024, the Privacy Protections (H) Working Group of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (“NAIC”) held its first meeting since the Spring National Meeting in March. The working group seeks public...more
Your company was hacked. You feel panic, embarrassment, anger, fear and confusion. But you must act quickly, logically and decisively to stop the bleeding and protect your business, your customers and your employees. The good...more
For over 100 years, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) has been developing model legislation to encourage uniformity among states for the regulation of insurance products. The NAIC model laws and...more
By definition, insurance policies represent an exercise in planning for (and hedging against) catastrophe. Cyber insurance for the healthcare industry is no exception. But any hedge is only as good as it’s reliable. Many...more
Followers of the cyber insurance market over the past two years may be suffering from whiplash—that’s how dramatically the market shifted from 2022 to 2023. A perfect storm of good trends and facts combined to create a soft...more
The first half of 2023 saw a flurry of activity in the privacy and data security spaces. We outline below some of the key developments of interest to the insurance industry....more
In this month’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Update, we look at Washington state’s passage of the first-ever state-level health data privacy law and the finalized California Consumer Privacy Act regulations. We also examine a...more
On February 1, 2023, the NAIC Privacy Protections Working Group (PPWG) released a draft of Model Law 674 Insurance Consumer Privacy Protection Model Law (Model 674 or Model). Proposed Model 674 is intended to replace Model...more
In today’s modern and often hybrid workplace, there is no magic bullet for preventing data breaches—they can come from a variety of angles and thus require a vigilant, multifaceted approach. Implementing a wide-reaching...more
After two years of volatility, cyber liability prices finally appear to be normalizing due to factors that include a downturn in price increases and a lower frequency of ransomware attacks in 2022—all of which have resulted...more
After two years of price increases, the cyber insurance market is normalizing as we head into 2023. Insurance carrier loss ratios are healthier now than they have been in the past few years— a result of price increases and a...more
Medibank, one of Australia’s largest private health insurers, detected a ransomware attack in October 2022. The attackers, believed to be part of a criminal organization based in Russia, exfiltrated approximately 9.7 million...more
Lloyd’s of London’s new requirement that all insurers issuing standalone cyber coverage exclude liability for any state backed cyber-attacks could present a systemic risk to the insurance market, raising questions of coverage...more
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is more than an annoying popup or text message when logging onto a company’s website or platform. Not only is using MFA a sound security practice and good business, it is frequently becoming...more
In the second of a three-part series, Buckingham Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Attorney David Myers talks with Andy Jones, CEO, Fortress Security Risk Management, and Bryan Schauer, Vice President at The Schauer Group’s...more
The first half of 2022 brought plenty of activity in the data privacy and cybersecurity space, much of which is applicable to or of interest to the insurance industry. We outline some of this activity below. Revisions to...more
Change is a constant in the world today. This is particularly true of the past two tumultuous years, which saw a worldwide pandemic that impacted nearly every aspect of everyday life. Rapidly advancing technology and...more
Vermont Governor Scott signed the Vermont Insurance Data Security Law (available here) (the “VIDSL”), becoming the 22nd state to adopt a cybersecurity statute based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners...more
As an update to our March 8, 2022 blog post discussing coverage for phishing scams in the context of Ernst & Haas Mgt. Co. v. Hiscox, Inc., 23 F.4th 1195 (9th Cir. 2022), a new Alaska case relied on Ernst & Haas to find...more
Cybercrime is at an all-time high, with just the cybercrime insurance industry alone expecting to grow from $8 billion globally in 2020 to $20 billion by 2025.1 Although cyber liability insurance policies now exist to help...more