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Should Businesses Report a Cyber Breach? The Jury's Still Out

While lawyers and legislators grapple with the issue, insurance professionals still have clients to advise. What to tell them?

By Robert M. Dietzel, ARM, CIC | Updated on April 07, 2014

In case there wasn’t already enough confusion regarding cyber liability, data breach events, cyber coverage and cyber reporting, recent events suggest we have officially reached the fork in the road.

On March 26, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, chaired by Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D., W.Va.), held a hearing titled “Protecting Personal Consumer Information from Cyber Attacks and Data Breaches.”

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