Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. has agreed to pay $10,000 to settle a case where current and former customers’ personal information was made public in November 2009.

A St. Louis-based plan administrator disclosed that a delivery service has lost a box of microfilm containing plan enrollment information from the 1960s and 1970s.

An insurer for Sony Corp. asked a court to excuse it from paying the conglomerate’s legal defense after a data breach in April, and challenged Sony’s other insurers to define the extent of their coverage.

Health Net Inc. is investigating the apparent loss of several server drives containing employee, member and health care provider information from its data center in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

A wholesale brokerage operation launched a practice specializing in cyber liability coverage, which protects businesses against the damages that come from identity theft, data breach and other forms of cyber crime.

Health Net agreed to pay $250,000 to Connecticut to settle a case involving the May 2009 loss of a computer disk drive containing personal health information of up to 2 million health plan members.

Aetna officials say paper files containing personal information for about 4,900 of its enrollees in New Jersey and Pennsylvania were thrown out as part of an office move in Blue Bell, Pa.

ACE USA has announced new enhancements to its DigiTech and Privacy Protection policies, providing privacy, network security and media liability coverage for all industries.

In what he is calling a “historic” lawsuit, Connecticut’s attorney general has filed suit against Health Net of Connecticut for a data breach jeopardizing the personal information of 446,000 of its members.

While Connecticut’s insurance commissioner gave his blessing to the sale of Health Net’s northeastern business to UnitedHealthcare, the state’s attorney general said he wants to take a closer look at the acquisition