eDiscovery Law

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Key Insight: Waiver of privilege for documents inadvertently posted to publicly accessible Box.com location Nature of Case: insurance coverage litigation Electronic Data Involved: Box.com uploads Keywords: Box.com, privilege waiver, publicly accessible, account permissions, file sharing Identified State Rule(s): Va.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm disclosed a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The American group of insurance and financial services companies State Farm revealed that it was the victim of a credential stuffing attack it has suffered in July. The experts detected 8.3

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

California Attorney General Smacks Health Insurer With Hefty Penalty California's attorney general has slapped Aetna with a substantial financial penalty in the latest enforcement action against the health insurer following a 2017 breach involving HIV information.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. sought coverage for expenses under its property insurance policy.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Tribunal ruling noted Brexit campaign and insurance company owned by its key backer had a ‘two-faced approach to regulation’ The Leave.EU Tribunal ruling noted Brexit campaign and insurance company owned by its key backer had a ‘two-faced approach to regulation’ The Leave.EU subscribers between August 2016 and February 2017.

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Data Matters

JULY 30, 2018

In October 2017, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) adopted an Insurance Data Security Model Law. On May 3, 2018, South Carolina became the first state to enact this Model Law, in the form of the South Carolina Insurance Data Security Act (H.B. See CT Gen Stat § 38a-999b (2015) ; 23 NYCRR 500.

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CGI

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Insurers’ top trends and priorities: A look at the 2017 CGI Client Global Insights (part 2). Thu, 12/07/2017 - 15:43. In my previous blog , I introduced findings from in-person interviews CGI held in 2017 with more than 1,300 client executives across 17 countries, including insurance business and IT executives.

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CGI

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Insurers’ top trends and priorities: A look at the 2017 CGI Client Global Insights (part 2). Tue, 12/05/2017 - 17:24. In my previous blog , I introduced findings from in-person interviews CGI held in 2017 with more than 1,300 client executives across 17 countries, including insurance business and IT executives.

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CGI

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Insurers’ top trends and priorities: A look at CGI’s 2017 Voice of Our Clients findings (part 1). Thu, 12/07/2017 - 15:32. This year, we conducted in-person interviews with more than 1,300 client executives across 17 countries, including insurance business and IT executives. p.butler@cgi.com. Change accelerators.

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Threatpost

JANUARY 21, 2022

Court rules ‘War or Hostile Acts’ exclusion doesn’t apply to the pharma giant's 2017 cyberattack.

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Data Breach Today

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Cases Involved Mailings That Potentially Exposed Sensitive Health Information Health insurer Aetna is still paying the price for two 2017 privacy breaches involving mailings that potentially exposed HIV and cardiac condition information about thousands of individuals. Here's the latest update.

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CGI

JULY 31, 2017

Insurers’ top trends and priorities: A look at CGI’s 2017 Voice of Our Clients findings (part 1). Mon, 07/31/2017 - 05:30. This year, we conducted in-person interviews with more than 1,300 client executives across 17 countries, including insurance business and IT executives. harini.kottees…. Change accelerators.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 14, 2020

The “RCM” portion of its name refers to “revenue cycle management,” an industry which tracks profits throughout the life cycle of each patient, including patient registration, insurance and benefit verification, medical treatment documentation, and bill preparation and collection from patients.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Group-IB and Swiss insurance broker ASPIS that owns CryptoIns project, have developed the world’s first scoring model for assessing cryptocurrency exchanges. According to CryptoIns analysts, the crypto assets insurance market is expected to reach $7 billion by 2023. Why do crypto exchanges’ users need insurance?

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Data Breach Today

MAY 30, 2018

Health Insurer Sues Organizations That Represented HIV Patients in Earlier Privacy Dispute A messy legal case involving a 2017 privacy breach that has already cost Aetna about $20 million in settlements has taken yet another twist.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

New Lawsuits Filed in the Wake of 2017 Mailing Mishap A case involving a 2017 privacy breach that has already cost health insurer Aetna about $20 million in legal settlements is getting messier. What new questions and lessons are emerging?

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

On November 3, 2017, Securityroundtable.org published an article highlighting the vulnerabilities businesses face in a world of e-commerce and interconnectivity, and spotlighted a crisis-planning panel hosted by Hunton & Williams held on November 1. It is now recognized as a basic risk issue by every company.”

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The Security Ledger

AUGUST 20, 2019

We talk to Bruce McDonnell of the East West Institute about how insurers are responding. Related Stories Episode 155: Disinformation is a Cyber Weapon and APTs warm to Mobile Malware Podcast Episode 117: Insurance Industry Confronts Silent Cyber Risk, Converged Threats NotPetya Horror Story Highlights Need for Holistic Security.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 29, 2017

On March 28, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Report”) and released its annual inspection program for 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The NYDFS, which regulates financial institutions including insurance companies, mortgage brokers and banks, adopted the original Cybersecurity Regulation in 2017. Our previous blog post covered key proposed changes to the Cyber Regulation.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2019

US food giant Mondelez is suing insurance company Zurich American for denying a $100 million (£76 million) claim filed after the NotPetya attack. NotPetya is a Windows-based piece of ransomware that infected organisations across the globe in 2017. Perilous future for cyber insurance. Was NotPetya an act of war?

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CGI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Data analytics – how should insurers look to the future? Tue, 09/12/2017 - 03:00. With a plethora of new data sources across the property and casualty (P&C) general insurance lifecycle now becoming available, how do insurers create an all-encompassing data analytics policy for the future?

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 12, 2020

Mears made over one billion spoofed robocalls to sell health insurance plans under a variety of business names including Rising Eagle and JSquared Telecom. The robocalls falsely claimed to offer health insurance plans from major insurers but instead were sold by entities not affiliated in any way with those insurers.

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CGI

MARCH 1, 2017

‘The Organist Entertains’ – reaction to the insurance Ogden discount rate cut. Wed, 03/01/2017 - 05:02. When I first saw the word ‘Ogden’ in the Insurance press I was immediately reminded of the long running BBC programme ‘the organist entertains’ hosted by Nigel Ogden. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. I propose an alternative approach.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Insurers’ digital focus is looking through the wrong ‘lens’. Tue, 02/28/2017 - 03:52. Read any article on digital insurance and it seems to me that it is all about the insurers! harini.kottees…. Add new comment. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use.

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CGI

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Digital Transformation in UK General Insurance: Where do MGAs fit in? Tue, 02/28/2017 - 04:15. According to the latest ABI data 48% of motor insurance premiums and 76% of home insurance premiums are purchased via intermediaries (excluding aggregator web sites). harini.kottees…. Source ABI Website November 2016.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On April 22, 2019, HHS began investigating DMS after receiving a breach notification indicating that DMS’ network server was infected by the Gandcrab ransomware in April 2017. DMS is a HIPAA business associate (“BA”) that provides payer credentialing and medical billing services to HIPAA Covered Entities (“CEs”).

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2019

The Dark Overlord hacking group claims to have stolen a huge trove of documents from the British insurance company Hiscox, Hackers stole “hundreds of thousands of documents,” including tens of thousands files related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In October 2017, the group broke into the celeb London Bridge Plastic Surgery clinic.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com.

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IT Governance

JULY 23, 2019

Equifax has agreed to pay up to $700 million (about £561 million) as part of a settlement with US regulators following its mammoth data breach in 2017. The breach occurred between May and July 2017, as cyber criminals exploited a remote code execution vulnerability in Apache Struts 2, an open-source framework for developing Java web apps.

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Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 28, 2018

As reported on Hunton’s Insurance Recovery blog , the Second Circuit has rejected Chubb subsidiary Federal Ins. s request for reconsideration of the court’s July 6, 2018, decision, confirming that the insurer must cover Medidata’s $4.8 million loss under its computer fraud insurance policy. July 9, 2018, 2nd Cir.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 30, 2019

That could be for insurance purposes. “As As with any insurance, cyber insurance really requires due care.” “Then you have the folks whose security programs have run out of steam and they’re looking for a way to prove that they’re doing due care,” Wrenn said. Wrenn said. “So

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 2, 2021

million settlement with two related insurance companies, relating to violations of two different requirements of the NYDFS cybersecurity regulation during the period 2018 to 2019. Readers may recall that NYDFS’ cybersecurity regulation went into effect in March of 2017. NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

On February 17, 2017, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (“Horizon”) agreed to pay $1.1 The stolen laptops contained policyholder electronic Protected Health Information (“ePHI”), including names, addresses, birth dates, insurance identifications and, in some cases, Social Security numbers and clinical data.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There was just one more interesting data point in that email: i myself am in that dataset and i've been getting 100x more phishing/scam calls, emails, and physical mail Let me end this with a best guess: this feels like the same situation as the massive Master Deeds incident in South Africa in 2017.

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