A new court ruling could affect cyber insurance policy exclusions and insureds could assume more costs in the event of a loss. The ruling underscores the fact that cyber insurance is no substitute for cyber defense.
A Texas appellate court recognized that an insurance carrier is entitled to recover all benefits paid to an injured worker out of the "first money" recovered from a liable third party.
Jurors in the criminal case agreed with testimony that Michael Barisone was suffering from a delusional disorder that left him detached from reality at the time of the shootings.
Mark Debus, clinical manager of behavioral health at Sedgwick, discusses the impact of trauma response and compassion fatigue for insurance first responders.
An idiopathic injury occurs when either the cause of an accident is unknown or when it is due to a personal condition of the employee with no relationship to a workplace risk or hazard. For an injury to be compensable under O.C.G.A. § 34-9-1(4), it must "arise out of" and occur "in the course of" employment.