Privacy/Data Security/Cyber Risk

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Program:

Insurance Linked Securities: The Convergence of Insurance and the Capital Markets

Discussion of the legal and regulatory issues for various ILS structures including CAT Bonds, ILW’s and Side Cars.

Read More PLEASE JOIN US – 12th Annual Half-Day Insurance and Reinsurance Seminar – Complimentary Seminar

Legislation was recently introduced in the House of Representatives to extend the federal Terrorism Risk Insurance Program through 2019. The lead sponsors of the bill, the TRIA Reauthorization Act of 2013 (H.R. 508), are Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) and Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), both of whom sit on the House Financial Services Committee. …
Read More TRIA Extension Bill Proposed in Congress

As we reported here, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) recently issued final regulations (the “Final Rule”) implementing changes to HIPAA mandated by the HITECH Act. The long awaited Final Rule addresses a number of privacy and security topics, including breach notification. …
Read More HHS Broadens Notification Obligations in Final Data Breach Notification Rule

Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans.  In the days that followed Katrina, we and others who focus on questions of insurance coverage debated whether the devastation in Mississippi and Louisiana had been caused by water or by wind.  We discussed slabs, anti-concurrent causation clauses, levees, efficient proximate cause, valued policy laws, and local and national political dynamics. …
Read More Sandy: Déjà Vu?

The second annual C5 conference was co-chaired by Ben Beeson of Lockton and Laurie Kamaiko of Edwards Wildman. The initial focus addressed the controversial questions of whether the cyber insurance market was failing to offer a meaningful solution to current day cyber risk, the struggle to remain relevant in the current business market, and whether the UK market would evolve the same as the US market, in light of the impending focus on data breaches with the upcoming European Commission’s Draft Regulation on Data Protection that is likely to impose notice requirements. …
Read More Second Annual C5 Cyber Risk & Data Protection Insurance Conference held in London on 9 October and 10 October

October 10, 2012
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
225 West Wacker Drive, Suite 3000
Chicago, Illinois  60606

Edwards Wildman Speakers:  Chris Finney, Thomas F. Bush, Neil R. (“Nick”) Pearson, Theodore P. Augustinos, Brian J. Green, Brent R. Austin, Patrick J. Gennardo…
Read More Half-Day Insurance and Reinsurance Seminar

Laurie Kamaiko will be one of the Chairs of the 2nd Annual C5 Forum to be held on October 9th and 10th, 2012 at the Crowne Plaza London-The City Hotel, UK.

C5’s 2nd annual Data Protection, Cyber Risk and Data Protection Insurance forum is a unique event specifically tailored to the insurance industry. …
Read More Cyber Risk and Data Protection Insurance, October 2012 London

Congress will take up cybersecurity legislation the week of April 23.  On April 5,  Vince Vitkowsky, of Edwards Wildman’s New York office, moderated a panel on Capitol Hill that included, among others, representatives of the House Permanent Select Intelligence Committee, the U. S.  Chamber of Commerce, and the Constitution Project. …
Read More Video of Cybersecurity Legislation Panel