Companies and their workforces across the globe have been impacted by COVID-19 in ways that threaten critical trade secrets and other IP assets, and that require greater vigilance to protect them. The massive increase in the world’s remote workforce, as well as numerous terminations and furloughs, create a heightened risk of theft or inadvertent disclosure
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California Courts Limit Liability for Lost Medical Information
By Steven Boranian on
This post was also written by Joshua B. Marker.
A panel of the Court of Appeal limited the private right of action under the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, Civil Code § 56 et seq. (“CMIA”), holding that alleging negligent maintenance and loss of possession of confidential information is insufficient to state a cause…