Market Smarts
S.H. Smith & Company


Jan 15, 2007

Is Your Coverage Checklist Up to Date?

Failure to address an insured's exposures resulting from their handling of Personally Identifiable Information could be your E&O.

Consider accounts you already write:

Law Firms - Healthcare Clinics - Investment Companies - Media Firms
Universities - Banks - Manufacturers - Website Owners - Trade Associations
Not-for-Profit Organizations

The Facts:

  • By handling employee, client and customer information, companies expose themselves to potential claims for invasion of privacy, failure of network security and violations of laws like HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

  • Most companies rely on computers and/or the internet to conduct daily business operations.

  • At least 34 states in the United States have passed Privacy Breach Notification Laws.

  • The severity of claims will increase substantially as more companies realize the expense associated with a security breach, and the public release of personal information.

  • Technology and "Cyber" Liability Coverages are not just for Technology companies.

Your Clients Need to be Asked.

For more information, contact

Todd McDonald
Connecticut Office
860.561.3600

David Perkins
Massachusetts Office
781.449.2227

  

Steve Hunziker
Minnesota Office
651.647.6254


Offices in , , , , and

For general information about S. H. Smith, feel free to call or email anyone at any of our offices. For any state not listed below, please contact , Chief Marketing Officer. S. H. Smith & Co. is a national firm, licensed to write in all 50 states.

Connecticut office
Thomas Crawford
860.561.3600

Massachusetts office
Thomas Crawford
781.449.2227

New York office
David Mackintosh
315.682.0264

Florida office
800.735.1023

  

Minnesota office
Steve Hunziker
651.647.6254

Ohio office
Charles Corky Breeden
800.680.2594

Ohio office
Terrence Coughlin
330.656.2525


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