Factsheet

Cyber

Managing a typical cyber event with MPR Cyber Incident Response and Insurance

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Tim Jones

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Tim Jones

Language Matters

D&O and the
Duty to Defend

The ‘duty to defend’ is a long-standing provision in D&O policies and, in broad terms, allows the appointment of a lawyer to be the choice of the insured person(s).

Factsheet

Five reasons to act quickly
during a cyber event

Incident response providers have observed that a strong theme emerging, even where a cyber insurance policy in force, is poor escalation from the discovery of the cyber event to the point at which the appropriate experts are engaged.

Insight

If the crime policy didn’t run off, where did it go?

The case for run off on a D&O policy is well established. However, an internet search for ‘crime insurance run off’ will deliver slim pickings.