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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

New Biden Administration Cyber Strategy Proposes Dramatic Shift in Order to Hold Software Developers Liable for “Insecure”...

The Strategy’s liability proposal represents a fundamental change in the cybersecurity market for software markers. Proposed legislation would seek to restrict software providers’ ability to limit liability while also...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Businesses Should Consider the SAFETY Act a Core Part of Their Ransomware Defense Program

The SAFETY Act, a liability management program managed by the Department of Homeland Security, can be used by businesses to limit or eliminate potential liability associated with ransomware attacks. To take advantage of...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

MGM Resolves Las Vegas SAFETY Act Litigation

After over 18 months of private mediation, MGM Resorts International has finally dismissed a series of declaratory judgment actions the company brought against victims of the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting. Those cases...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

COVID-19: Congress and States Debate New Liability Protections for Reopening Businesses

Significant potential changes to liability risks should help guide and inform business reopening plans. Adoption of new COVID-19-related liability protections for businesses has become a top legislative priority for key...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Liability Protections Are Critical to Ensuring Economic Recovery

Asurge in COVID-related product liability and other tort litigation could dampen the national recovery. Such suits, brought by members of the rapacious plaintiffs’ bar, are already being filed and will no doubt be very...more

Fox Rothschild LLP

Coronavirus And SAFETY Act 2.0

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1.What do the Novel Coronavirus (n-CoV) and the SAFETY Act have in common? 2.They were both topics addressed this week by TSA Chief Counsel Francine Kerner at the Fox Rothschild 2020 Airline Symposium....more

Morgan Lewis

SAFETY Act Provides Liability Protection to Colleges and Universities for Physical Security of Stadiums and Arenas

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More than 1,000 Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act (SAFETY Act) of 2,002 approvals have been granted by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) since the act’s inception. Many professional...more

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