Sony insurers fight PlayStation cyberattack claims

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/22/sony-playstation-cyberattack-claims.html

Insurers for Sony are going to court in a bid to avoid paying
compensation related to a cyberattack and massive data breach
affecting the PlayStation Network, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony
Pictures network...

Since then, Canadian customers have launched three class action
lawsuits against Sony and U.S. customers have launched 55, said a
court document filed by the New York law firm Coughlin Duffy LLB on
behalf of Zurich American Insurance Company and Zurich Insurance
Company Ltd. this week in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
...

The Zurich companies are asking for a declaration that they are not
obligated to defend Sony or compensate it for claims made in the
lawsuits or future court actions that could be brought forward by the
attorney general of a U.S. State.

They say only a few Sony subsidiaries qualify for insurance under some
of its plans, and that the claims in the lawsuits are not for any of
the things covered by the insurance plans.
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