Jurisdiction: United Kingdom

Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter – Fall 2020

Locke Lord’s Privacy & Cybersecurity Newsletter provides topical snapshots of recent developments in the fast-changing world of privacy, data protection, and cyber risk management. For further information on any of the subjects covered in the newsletter, please contact one of the members of our privacy and cybersecurity team.

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UK High Court Rules on Business Interruption Insurance Test Case

On September 15, 2020, the UK’s High Court issued its highly-anticipated ruling on the “test ‎case” for COVID-19 business interruption insurance coverage. The case was brought by the UK ‎Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on behalf of several policyholders – many small and medium ‎sized enterprises (SMEs) – to determine how the Court would rule on several different policy ‎wordings for business interruption insurance in relation to losses arising out of the COVID-19 ‎pandemic. ‎

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What Every InsurTech Should Know About Privacy and Cybersecurity

As an early stage or startup InsurTech, you’re highly focused on all the right things: identifying a ‎challenge for the insurance industry, developing an innovative technical solution, making it ‎practical and scalable, getting it funded, and implementing it. The industry for which InsurTech ‎seeks to develop and deliver solutions is awash, however, in requirements and restrictions related ‎to the collection, use, sharing, and protection of data.‎

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LL Surplus Lines Series (Entry 5): 2019 WSIA Spring Surplus Lines Law Group Meeting Recap and Summary of Trends

The Surplus Lines Law Group held its spring meeting on Friday, April 5 in Biloxi, Mississippi. A number of presentations were given at the meeting, including updates on the trends around the nation with respect to the diligence search requirement, international tax and cybersecurity issues, as well as a presentation by this author as to the challenges surrounding placing group insurance coverage on a surplus lines basis (including unique hurdles applicable to risk purchasing groups).

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