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- Punishing the Unethical Employee
- Last week, I talked a lot about the idea of rewarding employees for ethical behavior. Some readers agreed with my contention that ethical behavior should be considered a standard of the job, and doesn't deserve an additional cookie. Others argued that rewarding ethical behavior sends a positive message to those...
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Contract Claims Against The Federal Government: Sovereign Immunity And Contractual Remedies
- Litigation of government contract claims is a detailed and specialized world. In a variety of ways, government contracts differ from those between private parties. A contractor's breach of contract with the government may, for example, have significance far beyond that associated with breach of a private contract. Perhaps most important,...
- White papers 2006-05-02
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- Government Finalizing Medical Data Breach Notification Rules
- Medical data breaches are on the rise. Much in the same way that credit card breach notifications skyrocketed following California's enactment of SB 1386, California's medical breach laws are doing the same now with patient data. Unlike financial breaches, however, federal rules are now coming into play. Since January, following...
- News items 2009-08-24
- No harm, no foul, says judge in Express Script data breach case
- Computerworld - A federal court in Missouri has thrown out a consumer class-action lawsuit that was brought against pharmacy benefits company Express Scripts over a 2008 data breach in which millions of customer records were believed to have been illegally accessed. In dismissing the lawsuit, Magistrate Judge Frederick Buckles reiterated...
- News items 2009-12-04
- TJX agrees to settle another breach lawsuit for $525,000
- Computerworld - TJX Companies Inc. has agreed to pay $525,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by several banks in connection with the massive data breach disclosed by the retailer in January 2007. The money will reimburse AmeriFirst Bank, HarborOne Credit Union, SELCO Community Credit Union, and Trustco Bank a portion...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Senate Committee Passes Data Breach Laws
- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee passed two bills today that establish federal guidelines for data breach notifications.Two sweeping bills that would set new standards for data breach notifications made their way out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. The committee voted yes on the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of...
- News items 2009-11-05
- National data breach notification bill passed in U.S. House
- A national data breach notification bill was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday.The Data Accountability and Trust Act would require any organization that experiences a breach of electronic data containing personal information to notify all U.S. individuals whose information is breached. The law requires that the Federal...
- News items 2009-12-10
- The Role of Perceived Violation in Determining Employees' Reactions to Psychological Contract Breach
- Using a racially diverse sample of 234 professional employees, the research presented in this paper investigated the impact of psychological contract breach and psychological contract violation on several work outcomes. Specifically, the research examined psychological contract violation as the key intervening mediating variable between psychological contract breach and various employee...
- White papers
- Employers Re sues AIG unit for breach of faith. (Employers Reinsurance Corp.; American International Group Inc.'s Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania)
- Employers Reinsurance Corp. has filed suit against Ins. Co. of the State of Pennsylvania charging, among other things, breach of utmost good faith in claims submission and allocation and breach of contract. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court Employers Reinsurance...
- Research articles 1997-01-06
- Data-Breach Notification: States Differ on When To Sound the Alarm
- To all banks confronting disparate laws and regulations on data breach notification: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. feels your pain. Not in sympathy, mind you, but empathy.The agency faced a data-breach episode of its own earlier this year when it d To all banks confronting disparate laws and regulations on...
- Research articles 2006-02-01
- ON DEADLINE: Visa Confirms Breach
- Visa USA confirmed a new ATM security breach last week that may have compromised customer accounts at dozens of credit unions and banks. The latest breach apparently dates back to February, when Visa began notifying card issuers of a security problem affe Visa USA confirmed a new ATM security breach...
- Research articles 2006-06-26
- News Briefs; Massachusetts plan sues custodian Mellon, over breach of contract and other claims.(News)(Middlesex Retirement System )
- BILLERICA, Mass. - The Middlesex Retirement System filed suit July 10 against the $511 million plan's custodian, Mellon Financial, alleging breach of contract, breach of warranty, and negligent representation among other claims. The suit, filed in Mi BILLERICA, Mass. - The Middlesex Retirement System filed suit...
- Research articles 2003-07-21
- Heartland Systems: How Did the Information Breach Happen?
- Anthony M. Freed submits: Reports are surfacing that there has been another major information security breach at a credit card payment processor, though the company has not yet been identified. The breach news comes less than one month after Heartland Payment Systems announced it had suffered...
- External links 2009-02-15
- PayChoice hit with another data breach
- PayChoice Inc, a large online provider of payroll processing services, shut down for the second time this month because of a security breach in its system. The company didn't identify the problem but said it had activated additional security measures to protect client data after it identified...
- News items 2009-10-19
- Two data breach laws pass Senate Judiciary Committee
- Two federal data security laws have cleared the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.The committee on Thursday voted to approve both the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2009, sponsored by committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and the Data Breach Notification Act, endorsed by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.Leahy's bill...
- News items 2009-11-06
- IdentityTruth Reaches out to Pfizer Employees That Were Impacted by the May 12 Data Breach Resulting from a Stolen Laptop
- WALTHAM, Mass. -- Preliminary news reports indicate that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer suffered a data breach on May 12 involving 13,000 employee records. The breach occurred when a laptop storing the information was stolen. While it appears that Social Security numbers were not involved, names, home addresses, telephone numbers, employee ID...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- Spy thriller 'Breach' is well-acted drama based on real FBI case
- BREACH -- *** -- Ryan Phillippe, Chris Cooper, Laura Linney; rated PG-13 (profanity, sex, violence, vulgarity). On the surface, "Breach" seems to have a lot in common with the recent Robert De Niro-directed thriller "The Good Shepherd." Both films are spy tales based on true stories....
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- Cantor Fitzgerald Wins Another Round in Delaware Trial; Judge Refuses to Dismiss Breach of Contract and Breach of Fiduciary Duty Case against Iris Cantor and Rod Fisher
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 16, 1999-- Marking a major legal victory for Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. CFLP, Vice Chancellor Myron Steele of the Delaware Court of Chancery yesterday rejected a motion by the defendants to have their breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty trial dismissed. As a result, defendants...
- Research articles 1999-06-17
- IdentitySweep.com Offers Identity Theft Protection for 40 Million Victims of T.J. Maxx Security Breach
- MyPublicInfo, Inc., the leading provider of identity scoring and identity theft monitoring solutions for consumers, is offering its signature IdentitySweep protection service ( www.identitysweep.com ) for the estimated 40 million victims of the T.J. Maxx data breach. Dating back to 2003 at T.J. Maxx, Marshall's and other TJX stores, this...
- Research articles 2007-01-31
- Three men indicted in largest U.S. data breach
- Two Russians and a Florida man were charged on Monday with hacking into Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven and the Hannaford Brothers supermarket chain and stealing data related to more than 130 million credit and debit cards.The indictment names 28-year-old Albert Gonzalez of Miami, who already has been charged with stealing...
- News items 2009-08-17
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