{"id":2613,"date":"2024-09-16T16:59:42","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/data-breach-insurance-does-not-cover-biometric-information-collection\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:59:42","slug":"data-breach-insurance-does-not-cover-biometric-information-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/data-breach-insurance-does-not-cover-biometric-information-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Data Breach&#8217; Insurance Does Not Cover Biometric Information Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>A split Illinois appellate panel ruled last week in favor of an insurance company, finding it was not required to indemnify a grocery chain in an underlying suit brought by employees who claimed the store failed to disclose that a third-party timekeeping software program kept a database of workers\u2019 biometric information.<\/p>\n<p>In a 2-1 decision Sept. 10, Illinois\u2019 First District Court of Appeals reversed a decision from the Cook County Circuit Court in favor of Certain Underwriters at Lloyd\u2019s London, represented by counsel with Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani. The case, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/images.law.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/documents\/292\/190953\/Tony\u2019s-Finer-Foods-Enterprises-Inc.-v.-Certain-Underwriters-at-Lloyd\u2019s-London-2024-IL-App-1st-231712.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tony\u2019s Finer Foods Enterprises v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd\u2019s, London<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0will return to the trial court after the majority\u00a0held that Lloyd\u2019s does not have the duty to represent Tony\u2019s Finer Foods Enterprises in an underlying lawsuit because the policies regarding cyber, data risk, and media insurance coverage did not extend to claims of biometric information violations.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A split Illinois appellate panel ruled last week in favor of an insurance company, finding it was not required to indemnify a grocery chain in an underlying suit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3433,293,2614,3241,292,2206,1566],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-biometric","tag-breach","tag-collection","tag-cover","tag-data","tag-information","tag-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}