OLYMPIA Reacting to the unemployment-claims data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 1 million Washingtonians, lawmakers are looking to beef up the state s cybersecurity practices.
Plaintiffs in Some States Defy Insurer Winning Streak in COVID Lawsuits
To anyone keeping score, it appears that insurers are crushing policyholders who sued for business income lost because of COVID-19 restrictions.
As of Tuesday, insurers had won 147 motions for dismal or summary judgment in state and federal courts, according to a litigation tracker maintained by the University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School. Policyholders had won only 34 cases in early rounds less than one out of five.
But if you look closer, glaring outliers emerge.
In Ohio, insurers had won only two of 11 motions to dismiss or for summary judgment, as of Tuesday. In one case, Henderson Road Restaurant Systems et al v. Zurich American Insurance Co., a federal judge actually granted summary judgment in favor of the policyholder.
Reacting to the unemployment-claims data breach that exposed the personal information of those affected, lawmakers are looking to beef up the state s cybersecurity practices with the governor’s support.
BY AGUEDA PACHECO FLORES / CROSSCUT
Originally published Feb. 3, 2021 on Crosscut.com
Alexandra Olin needs her 12-year-old son to go back to school. On the phone, Olin sounds exasperated, tired and fed up as she talks through her experience this past year.
Besides online learning being extremely sedentary, Olin says, children can’t be expected to sit online for hours and have perfect impulse control. She discovered her son, for example, was often “multitasking” last fall, with a video game open on one window and his remote class session open on another.
She has talked to her son about this and hopes the practice has stopped, but even parents in the same space have only so much control over their teens and preteens.
LuLaRoe Paying $4.75M to Washington Settle Pyramid Lawsuit February 3, 2021
The California-based multi-level marketing business LuLaRoe is paying $4.75 million to settle allegations from the Washington state Attorney General’s Office that it operated as a pyramid scheme.
LuLaRoe sells leggings and other clothing to a network of independent retailers, who can recruit other retailers to sell the company’s products.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson sued the company and its executives two years ago, saying they deceived people about how profitable it was to be a LuLaRoe retailer. While two people at the top made millions from 2016 to 2019, thousands of others were left with debt and unsold product, which they couldn’t return due to the company’s complex and misleading refund policy, he said.