Claims Examples
Online: A retailer develops a sponsored event site to sell merchandise. The site was diverted/replicated illegally and customers purchased illegal copies of the products. The result cost the Company over $5 million in sales and returned goods.
Natural Disaster: A doctor, with 12 years worth of electronic patient records, returned to work after a weekend of particularly bad weather to find his surgery center completely flooded. His PC was found encased in several feet of mud, and recovery seemed beyond all best efforts. Yet, despite a disaster of truly monumental proportions, he managed to bring his records back to life via the services of a data recovery specialist.
Email: Drug company breaches confidentiality An employee inadvertently breached patient confidentiality by sending out an email that included the email addresses of more than 600 patients who had signed up for a service to remind them to take their anti-depressants. The company was fined $100,000 and is subject to governmental monitoring for at least 20 years.
Email: Libel Claim A woman successfully sued her employer & received $10,000 after colleagues had exchanged obscene messages about her.
