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Insurance and BIPA: How Your Existing Coverage Could Protect You Against a Growing Risk

October 4, 2023 at 9:45am10:45am
Farella's Client MCLE Day

Sushila Chanana, Erica Villanueva, and Patrick Loi spoke at Farella's 2023 Annual Client MCLE Day on the session "Insurance and BIPA: How Your Existing Coverage Could Protect You Against a Growing Risk."

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In an era where consumer and employee privacy have become some of the largest risks that companies face, the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) has come to the forefront. We will explain how recent developments have made liability under BIPA a potentially existential threat for companies with customers, users, or employees in Illinois and how coverage under commercial general liability policies you already have may provide a lifeline.

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