Theodore Augustinos, Mark Schreiber, Thomas Smedinghoff, and Karen Booth, members of Edwards Wildman’s Privacy & Data Protection Practice Group, discuss major amendments to Florida’s breach notification statute, which will take effect July 1, 2014. …
Read More Edwards Wildman Client Advisory: Major Amendments to Florida Breach Notification Statute: Unique Requirements and Short Deadlines Take Effect July 1

We previously reported on the Law Commission and Scottish Law Commissions’ (the Commissions) review of insurance contract law and the draft Insurance Contracts Bill (the Bill) published in May 2014 (see our blog here). The Commissions have published a further draft of the Bill and draft Explanatory Notes which will accompany the Bill if and when the Bill is enacted (to view the Bill click here and to view the draft Explanatory Notes click here). …
Read More UK: Law Commissions Publish Further Draft of the Insurance Contracts Bill

Coming on the heels of a recent NATO report that Russia is again massing troops near its border with Ukraine, the Office of Foreign Asset Control, part of the United States Treasury Department, announced the following new additions to the Specially Designated National List under its Ukraine-Related Sanctions Program: …
Read More The United States Treasury Department Names Seven Additional Ukrainian Separatists and Russian Nationals to the Specially Designated National List

A growing number of states have adopted so-called “matching” regulations, requiring the replacement the undamaged items when the damaged items cannot be replaced in a way that achieves a reasonably uninform appearance, which may give rise to increased litigation in the coming years.  …
Read More Proliferation of Property Insurance Matching Regulations Increases Litigation Risks

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) expanded its recent focus on cybersecurity by addressing the responsibilities of corporate boards. In statements made during a June 10 talk at the New York Stock Exchange, SEC Commissioner Luis Aguilar highlighted the significant exposure that cyber risks present to companies and charged corporate boards with ultimate responsibility for addressing cybersecurity risk. …
Read More SEC Focus on Cyber Risk Continues, as Commissioner Calls on Corporate Boards to Oversee Cybersecurity

In Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co (Europe) Ltd and Anor v The Mayor’s Office For Policing And Crime [2014] EWCA Civ 682, the Court of Appeal has handed down a landmark decision on the recoverability of consequential losses under s2(1) of the Riot (Damages) Act 1886 (the “Act”). …
Read More UK: Court of Appeal Reverses Decision of High Court and Rules That Consequential Losses are Recoverable Under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886

Edwards Wildman have been instructed to act for J.K. Buckenham Limited (the Company) in relation to a scheme of arrangement which is the first of its kind (the Scheme). Under the Scheme, the Company will ask scheme creditors to give up their contractual rights against the Company, which has been in run off since 2007, in return for a replacement contract with its sister company, Howden Insurance Brokers Limited (HIBL). …
Read More UK: JK Buckenham Ltd Scheme of Arrangement