by Kelli Young | Jan 9, 2023 | Business Insurance, Case Study
What Is a Nuclear Verdict? Nuclear verdicts refer to exceptionally high jury awards—generally, those exceeding $10 million. Such verdicts, like the nuclear verdict – liquor liability loss, have become increasingly common in the past decade. In fact, the National...
by Kelli Young | Dec 12, 2022 | Business Insurance, Case Study
What Is a Nuclear Verdict? A Nuclear verdict refers to exceptionally high jury awards—generally, those exceeding $10 million. Such verdicts have become increasingly common in the past decade. In fact, the National Law Journal reported the average jury award among the...
by Kelli Young | Jan 10, 2022 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In October 2016, Dyn—a domain name system (DNS) provider for many well-known internet platforms—was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The Mirai DDoS Attack on Dyn was one of several major DDoS attacks in 2016 that stemmed from the Mirai...
by Kelli Young | Dec 6, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In October 2020, the University of Vermont (UVM) Health Network—a six-hospital health care organization that serves over 1 million patients throughout Vermont and upstate New York—discovered that its systems had been compromised by cybercriminals in a ransomware...
by Kelli Young | Nov 8, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In the final months of 2014, Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)—a well-known entertainment company responsible for producing and distributing a myriad of famous movies—experienced a large-scale cyber incident. A foreign hacking group infiltrated SPE’s network via...
by Kelli Young | Oct 18, 2021 | Case Study, Cyber Liability Insurance
In the final month of 2020, it was revealed that foreign hackers had orchestrated a supply chain cyberattack throughout the past year in an effort to compromise several federal agencies and private organizations. The cybercriminals first infiltrated the digital...
