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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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NYDFS issues significant guidance on insurers using AI or external data

Data Protection Report

On January 17, 2024 the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published a Proposed Insurance Circular Letter (“Proposed Circular”) regarding the use of artificial intelligence systems (“AIS”) and external consumer data and information sources (“ECDIS”) in insurance underwriting and pricing. Actual Actuarial Validity.

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What Is Integrated Risk Management? Definition & Implementation

eSecurity Planet

For example, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates personal health information and imposes fines for data breach or data inaccessibility. Stakeholders should brainstorm how to manage risk through controls, process changes, insurance, or business decisions such as “stop taking credit cards for payment.”

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Will Your Cyber-Insurance Premiums Protect You in Times of War?

Dark Reading

Multiple cyber-insurance carriers have adopted act-of-war exclusions due to global political instability and are seeking to stretch the definition of war to deny coverage.

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Is Artificial Intelligence relevant to insurance?

IBM Big Data Hub

In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy of artificial intelligence and its impact on insurance. Continued advancement in AI development has resulted today in a definition of AI which has several categories and characteristics. It offers customers and the insurer’s system to interact in a human-like manner.

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Vermont Enacts Insurance Data Security Law

Hunton Privacy

515 , making Vermont the twenty-first state to enact legislation based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). On May 27, 2022, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.515

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Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs

eSecurity Planet

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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