Law Firm Sues Insurer Over $700K in Lost Billings Due to Ransomware Attack
A small Rhode Island law firm has filed a lawsuit against its insurance company after the insurer refused to pay $700,000 in lost billings following a ransomware attack on the firm that locked down the firm’s computer files for three months, reports CloudNine’s eDiscovery Daily Blog.
Doug Austin‘s report, based on a story in the Providence Journal, explains that Moses Afonso Ryan Ltd. is suing its insurer, Sentinel Insurance Co., for breach of contract and bad faith. The insurer denied the plaintiff’s claim for lost billings over a three-month period when the documents were frozen by a hacker’s ransomware attack. The hacker encrypted the law firm’s computer files, offering to unlock them if a ransom were paid.
The suit says the infection disabled the firm’s computer network, meaning lawyers and staffers “were rendered essentially unproductive.”
Read the eDiscovery Daily Blog article.