Best Practices, Breach, Healthcare, Legal

Failure To Follow Minimum Required Practices

June 21, 2016 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

I have written several times about the fight between Cottage Health System and Columbia Casualty, a division of CNA Insurance. In 2013 Cottage’s systems were breached and the private information of thousands of patients was publicly disclosed. Their insurance company paid $4.125 million for costs related to the breach, including a class action lawsuit. That […]

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Breach, Legal

Cyber Insurance Will Not Make Up For Your Sins

June 5, 2015 mitch tanenbaum Leave a comment

Columbia Casualty paid Cottage Health System a little over $4 million after a breach in December 2013. Columbia wants their $4 million back, plus attorney’s fees and expenses because, they say, Cottage “did not follow minimum required practices for protecting information and did not truthfully attest to its security controls” (see article). Here is more […]

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