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
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
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 Texas federal district court, applying Texas law, has held that a cyber insurer did not need to cover losses incurred by its insured resulting from a system failure incident, finding that those losses were consequential and...more
The war exclusion has received a lot of attention over the past year, particularly since Russia invaded Ukraine in February. Policyholders’ concern that insurers will assert the exclusion as a basis to deny coverage is...more
Our lives and the products and devices we use become more dependent on data by the day. As a result, cyberattacks and data breaches present everchanging risks to companies and individuals, and the importance of applicable...more
The “war” exclusion has gotten more attention over the past couple of weeks in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. For good reason. This exclusion, common in property and liability policies alike, typically eliminates...more
Jerich Beason & Whitney McCollum speak on this Cyberside Chat to discuss the recent Merck & Co. cyber insurance win and how this impacts future wars fought with cyber weapons such as the conflict in Ukraine. This case sets a...more
Ransomware attacks were already on the rise prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the prevalence of such cyberattacks substantially increased during the pandemic due, in part, to additional security risks associated with the...more
Social engineering scams seeking to deceive companies into making wire transfers to fraudulent bank accounts continue to plague companies. According to the FBI, social engineering fraud costs businesses billions of dollars...more
With unprecedented activity online, cybercrime is growing in frequency, sophistication and aggregate effect. Despite the increased visibility of cybercrime, cybersecurity continues to lag behind this curve. Cybercriminals...more
Cyberattacks are an increasingly frequent and costly risk faced by almost every business today. While the availability and scope of cyber-specific insurance has developed exponentially over the past few years, it is important...more
Companies of all sizes have fallen victim to attacks whereby fraudsters will use deceptive communications, such as spoofed emails, to trick an employee into transferring money into the fraudsters’ control. While these...more
With the expansion of privacy legislation—from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe to the coming California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the United States—cyber liability insurance is taking on increased...more
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
A new Sixth Circuit decision may signal an emerging trend on whether insurers must cover claims made by policyholders who fall victim to phishing scams....more
Issues of digital privacy are multi-faceted and extend far beyond the now-routine data breaches that make headlines. The digital collection, use, and storage of biometric information (fingerprints, retinal or iris scans,...more
Remember the “good” ol’ days when the run-of-the-mill theft involved someone physically taking something tangible? That is so 20th century. Now, thieves and fraudsters are able to use computers and the internet to carry out...more
The FBI continues to warn that losses are on the rise from business email compromise (BEC) or “social engineering” schemes, which the Bureau describes as: Carried out by transnational criminal organizations that employ...more
The growing percentage of businesses that purchase cyber security and data privacy insurance portends a growing number of claims and, inevitably, litigation over some of those claims. Wells Fargo’s 2015 Cyber Security and...more
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