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You’ve Got Mail: NYDFS Enforcement Action Highlights Cybersecurity Risk of Over-Retention and Other Risks

Paul Hastings LLP on 8/22/2025

On Aug. 14, 2025, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued a Consent Decree announcing that Healthplex, Inc. (Healthplex) has agreed to pay a $2 million fine, as a result of an investigation into a 2021...more

An Alaska Court Goes Fishing for Insurance, Hooking Another Policyholder Win in a Phishing Scam Case

Miller Nash LLP on 5/13/2022

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

Cyber Insurance: Court’s Recent Decisions May Change What Your Policy Covers

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/3/2018

Cyber incidents can take many forms—phishing, insider theft, SQL injection, malware, denial of service, session hijacking, credential farming, or just old fashion “hacking.” Although many of these attack vectors employ...more

New Case May Signal Greater Likelihood That Insurers Are on the Hook for Coverage in Phishing Attacks

Troutman Pepper Locke on 7/31/2018

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

Two New Federal Decisions Are Beacons for Policyholders Navigating Computer Fraud Claims for Spoofing Losses

Pillsbury - Policyholder Pulse blog on 7/25/2018

On insurance coverage issues, sometimes the boat seems to be listing in the wrong direction. For example, insurers have long tilted the decks to avoid coverage for “spoofing” attacks and similar kinds of email fraud by...more

American Tooling and Medidata: The Latest Rulings on Coverage for Phishing Scams

Blank Rome LLP on 7/18/2018

“Phishing” is a scheme in which criminals use spoofed e-mails, copycat websites, or other deceptive communications to trick unwitting companies or individuals into sharing valuable personal information or into wiring money to...more

Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider - March 2018 #2

Robinson & Cole LLP on 3/9/2018

Cybersecurity Task Force Launched in Arizona - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey launched the Arizona Cybersecurity Team (ACT) by Executive Order on March 1, 2018. The ACT is comprised of 22 members representing officials from...more

Phishing for Cybersecurity Coverage: When is a Fraud a “Computer Fraud”?

Carlton Fields on 10/9/2015

In late June, the New York Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling that there was no coverage for a health insurance company policyholder, under a “Computer Systems Fraud” rider issued by its insurer, for an underlying...more

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