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Data Breach
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Hunton Retail Law Resource
Fifth Circuit to Decide Whether Indemnification Claim for Credit Card Fines Is Covered Under Specialty Retailer’s D&O and Corporate Liability Insurance Policy
An insured seeking coverage for credit card fees assessed against its third-party payment processor following a data breach recently filed an appeal in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Spec’s,…
Covington Digital Health
Bar to Data Breach Litigation May Be Dropping; Implications for Digital Health Technologies
By Lily Katharine Hines, Nigel Howard
At the beginning of August, the D.C. Circuit found that the fact that a data breach has occurred and individual consumer information has been lost may constitute sufficient injury to…
Data Counsel
Delaware Revamps Its State Data Breach Notification Statute
On Aug. 17, 2017, Delaware revamped its existing data breach notification statute. In doing so, Delaware became the second state (joining Connecticut) to mandate offering individuals affected by a breach…
Amazing Firms, Amazing Practices
Law Firm Pairs with Cybersecurity Company to Help Businesses with Data Breaches
By Gerry Riskin
Bloomberg Law reports that the law firm Jackson Lewis has formed an arrangement with the identity-theft and data-breach management firm Merchants Information Solutions to provide legal advice to businesses that have experienced data breaches.…
TortsProf Blog
Sharkey on Data Breach Claims and the Economic Loss Rule
Cathy Sharkey has posted to SSRN Can Data Breach Claims Survive the Economic Loss Rule?. The abstract provides:Data security breach cases are fertile ground to explore the impact of the economic…
Password Protected
Another Circuit Joins the Trend of Setting a “Low Bar” for Standing in Data Breach Actions
Consistent with a growing trend among courts nationwide, the D.C. Circuit Court unanimously held that a group of plaintiffs had cleared a “low bar” to establish constitutional standing for their…
Data Law Insights
D.C. Circuit: Alleged theft of healthcare subscriber information satisfies Article III harm standard under Spokeo
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has now weighed in on whether plaintiffs can bring a putative class action arising from an alleged data breach in lieu…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Nationwide Agrees to Pay $5.5 Million to Settle Multistate Data Breach Investigation
On August 9, 2017, Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. agreed to a 5.5 million dollar settlement with attorneys general from 32 states in connection with a 2012 data breach that exposed…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
D.C. Circuit’s Article III Standing Decision Deepens Appellate Disagreement
On August 1, 2017, a unanimous three-judge panel for the D.C. Circuit reversed the dismissal of a putative data breach class action against health insurer CareFirst, finding the risk of…
Broker- Dealer Law Corner
Ransomware In 2017: Not A Pretty Picture
I am happy to share this post from my colleague, Greg Stein, about ransomware. While ransomware is not something unique to the financial services industry, because, as criminal Willie Sutton…