Class Action Lawsuits Pile Up Over UnitedHealth Data Breach March 14, 2024 By Brendan Pierson UnitedHealth Group has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions...
Merck Settles Coverage Dispute With Insurers Over War Exclusion in NotPetya Attack January 5, 2024 Merck & Co. Inc. has reportedly reached a deal with insurers over a closely-watched coverage dispute related to a massive...
Home Depot Appeals to Get Defense Costs From CGL Policies for 2014 Breach December 15, 2023 By Chad Hemenway Think cyber events don’t have long tail? Consider this: Home Depot is still in a legal battle to get $50...
Marsh McLennan Asks Court to Revisit Data Breach Ruling to Avoid Flood of Litigation September 28, 2023 Marsh McLennan wants the Second Circuit appeals court to reconsider its August decision that overruled a district court and reinstated...
Court Says Fear Created by Data Breach Suffices for Class-Action to Proceed July 5, 2023 By Jim Sams Former customers of Injured Workers Pharmacy whose personal information was stolen by hackers and allegedly used to file a fake...
Fraudulent Instruction, Data Theft Trends to Continue in 2023: Beazley February 9, 2023 Incidents of fraudulent instruction scams were up 13% in 2022, according to specialist insurer Beazley’s new Cyber Services Snapshot report....
JPMorgan Must Face Suit by Ray-Ban Maker Unit Over Cyber Theft January 5, 2023 By Chris Dolmetsch and Bob Van Voris JPMorgan Chase Bank NA will have to face a lawsuit by a unit of the French maker of Ray-Ban glasses...
Ransomware Did Not Cause Direct Physical Loss, State High Court Says December 29, 2022 By Jim Sams A business owner’s insurance policy did not provide coverage for software damaged by a ransomware attack because there was no...
T-Mobile to Pay $350 Million in Settlement Over Massive Hacking July 25, 2022 By Jonathan Stempel and Sara Merken T-Mobile US Inc. agreed Friday to pay $350 million and spend an additional $150 million to upgrade data security to...
Zywave Agrees to $11 Million Fund to Settle ITC Data Breach Lawsuit March 8, 2022 Insurance technology provider Zywave has agreed to offer an $11 million fund to settle a class-action lawsuit related to a...