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- $18 Million Verdict Tossed as Court Blocks Effort to Avoid Libel Defense
- 2005 Litigation Trends Survey
- A Close Look at Identity Theft Coverage
- A Letter From Hutch Regarding His Retirement
- A New Nominee As One of History’s Worst Bugs?
- A New Twist on Phishing
- Adding Additional Insureds to Professional Liability Policies
- Advertising Injury and Personal Injury Gap
- Anonymous Posters and Defamation Exposure
- Are your clients prepared if disaster strikes? Are you prepared?
- Blips, Bloopers and Glitches Oh My!
- Bloggers Are Advertisers?
- Book Publisher To Face A Million Little Claims?
- California Court: Misrep in Application Leaves Innocent Insureds with No Policy
- California Courts Changing the Playing Field on Some Risk Management Techniques
- California Enhances Data Breach Law
- Can the Truth Be Libelous?
- Catholic School Sues John and Jane Doe over Wikipedia Posts
- Chilling Internet Liability Litigation
- ChoicePoint Update: Record-Breaking Fine Imposed
- Claim Examples for Bloggers
- Claims Made v. Claims Made and Reported
- Climbing Claim Costs at TJX Underscore Need for Privacy and Security Coverages
- Considering Contingent BI/PD Coverage
- Copyright Infringement Craze
- Copyright Infringement: Get ‘Em While They’re Young
- Corporate Blogging Adds One More Risk to a Company’s Internet Exposures
- Courtroom Rankings Update
- Creators of Mock Bar Exam Judged Liable for Copying Test Questions
- Cyber Crime Survey Results
- Cyber Privacy Act and New Draft of Privacy Legislation
- DOJ Study Profiles Lawsuits Decided at Trial in the State Court System
- Damage Control a Top Priority for Information Security Professionals
- Data Breach Study
- Data and the Property Damage Exclusion
- Defamation As Easy As the Weakest Link?
- Desire to Illustrate Stories Can Add Risk for Media
- Disclaimer Mania
- Disclosure Laws to be Outdated?
- Disney Beats Fantasy Claim, But at What Cost?
- Do Tech Companies need to buy intellectual property coverages in their E&O policies or do their CGL policies provide enough protection?
- Effects of Identity Theft on Individuals
- Eleven Alleged TJX Hackers Have Been Charged
- Expansions in Breach Notification Law
- Extortion Is Growing Threat to Online Businesses
- FTC Sends Warning Letters over Private Data Exposed on P2P File Sharing Networks
- Fab Labs
- Failure to Eliminate Metadata May Cause Confidential Source Breach
- Fair Use v. Copyright Infringement
- Finding Coverage for Privacy Regulatory-Imposed Civil Fines and Penalties
- Flying Shrimp Ruled Not the Cause of Tragic Death
- Grokster, the Supreme Court and the Impact on Risk
- Hackers Phish in Bank’s Own Pond; Thieves Score Millions with PIN Numbers
- Have DDoS Attacks Now Evolved into Cyber-Warfare?
- Hey, That’s My Move!
- Hot Prospects for Internet Liability Insurance
- How Much Do Those Security Breaches Cost: Take Three
- How Much Do Those Security Breaches Cost: Take Two
- How Much Do Those Security Breaches Cost?
- IP Infringement in Hazzard County
- IT Predictions
- Identity Theft: How Big is Problem of Fraud?
- Identity Thieves Reel in the Big Fish
- Imprisonment Insurance: It’s Holistic
- In Identity Theft Cases, Plaintiffs Must Show Evidence of Actual Injury
- Insurance Agent Left Bare by Breach of Contract Exclusion in E&O Policy
- Insuring Statutory Damages
- Internet, Tech, Media and Manufacturers Products Now Available in All 50 States
- Is the Territory Big Enough for Both You and Your Client?
- It’s Electric: DMCA Extends to Dance Moves
- James Frey fuss raises thoughts about negligence coverage in media liability policies
- Jurisdiction Matters
- Jury Trial Waivers: A Growing but Still Controversial Method of Risk/Cost Management
- Just When You Thought Domain Names Were Safe
- Just when you think you’ve seen it all with disclaimers
- K-Fed: Blinded with Copyright Infringement?
- Keeping Track of Service Agreements
- LJ’s Top 5 List of What to Watch out For: Second Installment
- Late Claim Reporting Problematic but Not Necessarily Grounds for Denial
- Legal Action Can Result in Unwanted Attention
- Lego Your Ego
- Linking Continues to Spur Litigation
- Loss of Use Coverage Key to Court’s Decision Requiring Insurer to Defend
- Making the Sale: Coverage for Software/Hardware Resellers
- Malicious Prosecution: A Rare but Powerful Counter-Weapon for a Prevailing Defendant
- Malware Infections Are Substantial Security Exposure
- Many E&O Policies Fall Short of Meeting Industry Needs
- Media E&O Policies Provide E&O Coverage, Right? Well…
- Missing Copyright Coverage
- More on The Dangers of Late Claim Reporting
- More on the Dark Corners of CyberExtortion
- More on the Good, Bad and The Ugly of U.S. Courtrooms
- Most Favored Venue for Punitive Damages
- Most Policies Expire at the Witching Hour
- Move Over Sarbanes-Oxley; New Identity Theft Laws on the Table
- NY Attorney General Settles with Companies Advertised in Adware
- Naked Cowboy Asks Naked Cowgirl to Cease and Desist
- Naked Cowboy’s Suit Against M&M to Proceed
- New HIPPA Data Breach Regulation and Comparison of State Breach Laws
- New Jersey Court Prevents an Upside Down View of an Exclusion
- New Social Media Exposures
- New Study Reveals Insiders as Number One Cause of Data Breaches in U.S.
- New Study Shows Going to Trial Doesn’t Necessarily Pay
- New Virus Is Reminder of Security Issues
- New Worries in Ecommerce
- No Coverage for Claims Reported Late, Even With Continuous Coverage from Same Carrier
- Non-renewal of Policy Not a Matter of Bad Faith in California Case
- Not All Data Breaches are Electronic
- On The Privacy Front
- Online Journalists Have Confidential Source Privileges
- Permission to Link
- Phishing, Pharming and Plain Old Phraud
- Photos Posted Online Can Appear in Unexpected Places
- Plaintiff Wins by Default Judgment in Copyright Infringement Case
- Please Bill, No More Predictions
- Potential Perils of Changing Policy Formats: Occurrence/Claims Made
- Privacy and Copyright Acts Under Scrutiny
- Privacy and Security Coverage: LJ’s Top 7 list of What to Watch Out For
- Privacy and Security Exposures for Cloud Computing
- Privacy and the Browser Fingerprint
- Private Health Info Faxed to Wrong Number – for 15 Months (and Still Counting)
- Profound Changes in Views on Disclosing Identity Theft
- Protecting Software Copyright Ownership
- Protecting Your Clients Against a Defamation End-Run
- Purchasing General Liability and Professional Liability Together: The Dangers of Putting All Your Eggs in One Basket.
- Putting Revised Contract Terms on Website Deemed Insufficient Notice to Customer
- Q&A: Do E&O Policies Cover Contractual Liability?
- Question: What risks or exposures keep you up at night? Answer: They all do, because I care.
- Quiz Yourself on Defamation and Identity Theft
- RSS Feed
- RSS Feeds May Pose Security Threat
- Reading the Fine Print
- Recent Ruling Favorable to Internet Service Providers
- Record $11.3 Million Verdict Highlights Internet Exposures
- Red Flag Rules Deadline Extended Again
- Rescission and Application Disclosures
- Ring Tones: The Next Napster, or the Next Y2K?
- Risk Management Lessons Learned from FBI Debacle
- Sample Claims Round-Up
- Scent Technology
- Search Habits
- Searching for New Trademark Law
- Security Breach Costs Update
- Security Threat Predictions for 2010
- Security Threat Predictions for 2011
- Security Threat Predictions for 2012
- Security Threat Stats
- Security Threats Round-up
- Security Threats: Predictions for 2008
- Security Threats: The Human Factor
- Security’s Biggest Threats: A look at Human Error and Cyber Weapons
- Shades of the Coffee Guy
- Slow Reporting of Claims: How it Benefits Your Client to Act Fast
- Smartphones Can Expose More than a Company – or a Wife – Might Like
- Software & Information Industry Association Expanding Its Reach
- Sony Security Breach and Coverage Considerations
- Spitzer Eyes Some Online Advertisers
- Spitzer Ties His Ad Campaign to AIG
- Spreading a Virus: Tag, You’re It
- Strange Media Cases File: Rat Shakes and Don King Goes for the Moon
- Surprise: The Statute of Limitations Applies on the Internet, Too
- TJX Customers Are Hacked Over Security Breach, and This Time They May Have a Case
- TJX Update: Learning From The Mistakes
- Target Settles Website Accessibility Lawsuit
- Targeted Attacks Affect Small and Mid-Sized Businesses
- Taster’s Choice Leaves Model with a Bad Taste
- Tech Company Not Solely Responsible for Client’s Lost Data
- Technology E&O Plums
- Technology Exposures and Procuring Privacy/Security Protection
- Texting and Employee Privacy
- That Pesky Question: Do You Know of Any Circumstances…?
- The Best Defense
- The Corporate Security Policy Reaches Out to Personal Phones
- The Four Corners of a Tech/Internet Policy
- The Hammer Clause: When Push Comes to Pound in a Settlement
- The High Cost of Protecting Confidential Sources
- The Internet and the Naked Publisher
- The Liability Arising from Defamatory Blog Posts
- The Litigation Football: Where Shall We Play, and Whose Rules Apply?
- The Not-So-Special New Coverage Features
- The Scoop on Confidential Sources
- The Sky is Falling, Maybe
- The Vanishing Trial
- The World Wide Web of Potential Liability
- The Worst Courtrooms
- Third Party Security Coverage: LJ’s Top 5 List of What to Watch Out For
- Tort Costs in U.S.
- Trademark Dilution Law Changes Not Good for Defendants
- Trademark Dilution Law May Be Strengthened
- Trespass and Other Torts in Cyberspace
- Twitter Litigation
- Two Surveys: A Look at Personal Data Protection
- Update on Jury Waivers – California
- Update to previous post: Bloggers Are Advertisers?
- Update: GEICO vs. Google Effect on Trademark Exposures
- Update: Trespass and Other Torts in Cyberspace
- Update: Worst Courtrooms, Data Breach Costs, Cloud Computing
- Video of DEA Agent Shooting Himself Prompts Lawsuit
- Violation of Telephone Consumer Protection Act Viewed as Invasion of Privacy
- We Can’t Help But Wonder: Was There Insurance for “History’s Worst Software Bugs”
- We’re Not Going to Take It Anymore
- What Does “Negligent Publication” Mean in a Media Policy?
- What Is This Thing Called RSS
- What's a Blog?
- What, me worry?
- What’s Next for the World Wide Web?
- Where Did You Get That Stat?
- Who Is Hudson?
- Why Do Insurers Say That?
- Worst Courtrooms Update