Currently pending in the Massachusetts legislature is Bill S.120 entitled “An Act Relative to Consumer Data Privacy”
4/25/19
By: Eric Martignetti
The proposed bill defines “personal information” as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or the consumer’s device.” “Personal information” …
Massachusetts' Will-o'-the-WISP
4/24/19
By: Zach Moura
Massachusetts revised its data breach notification law, effective April 10, 2019, to change the minimum standards for what companies should include in a Written Information Security Plan, or WISP. Companies that experience a data breach incident must …
First Circuit Affirms Ruling That Third-Party Administrator Responded Reasonably To Settlement Offers Within Policy Limits
4/9/19
By: Bill Buechner
We recently posted a blog (see here) concerning an appeal to the First Circuit Court of Appeals from a Massachusetts district court decision finding that a third-party administrator (Sedgwick) did not violate the Massachusetts Consumer Protection …
Bold New Changes to Massachusetts' Data Breach Notification Law
3/15/19
By: Michael Kouskoutis
Effective April 11, 2019, Massachusetts’ data breach notification law will compel notifying entities to follow several additional and unprecedented requirements when responding to a data breach.
First, the notifying entity must report to the state’s Attorney General …
Philadelphia's “Salary History Ban Law” Gets Banned!
5/7/18
By: John McAvoy
More than a half-century after President JFK signed the Equal Pay Act, the gender pay gap is still with us. Women earn 79 cents for every dollar men earn, according to the Census Bureau. What will it …
FINRA to Pick Up the Check on Unpaid Arbitration Awards?
3/8/18
By: Theodore C. Peters
As recently reported, unpaid FINRA arbitration awards is a growing problem. As FINRA has acknowledged, roughly one quarter of FINRA arbitration awards issued in 2016 went unpaid. If lawmakers have their way, FINRA itself …