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The company now offers “tailored parametric insurance solutions” to protect companies when their IT systems go down, creating business or digital system interruptions. The business interruption insurance follows the July CrowdStrike outages, which created billions in estimated losses from downtime and other consequences of the software snafu. “Enterprise solutions are customized to address the unique … Read more
Check out our detailed report on the cyber insurance lawsuit Fortune 500 company Sinclair Inc. has filed against CCC/CNA and Starr Indemnity, claiming the cyber insurers each owe the broadcaster $10 million for losses from a 2021 ransomware attack. Both insurers deny the allegations, now before a Maryland federal court. But Sinclair’s claims in the … Read more
The local news is not good for broadcaster Sinclair Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI), a Fortune 500 company known for the 185 television stations it owns or operates across the US. The company is suing two of its cyber insurance providers, claiming the Continental Casualty Company (or “CCC,” the principal subsidiary of CNA) and Starr Indemnity & … Read more
Four companies have settled charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that they made “materially misleading disclosures” after being breached in 2020 by the SolarWinds’ Orion software hack (US public companies have been required to disclose material cyber events since last year, see this.) But two of five SEC commissioners dissented on the charges, … Read more
Thought the risk of being sued for a cyber breach was already high? It’s getting worse, Carolyn Purwin Ryan, a partner in Mullen Coughlin LLC’s data privacy and cybersecurity practice, told viewers during a recent webinar. Ryan noted that cyber breaches requiring the notification of >10,000 individuals often triggered a class-action lawsuit. But weeks ago … Read more