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HIPAA Penalties May Leave You High And Dry Despite Insurance Coverage

Published on Fri Aug 01, 2014

If your company undergoes a HIPAA investigation, will your directors and officers insurance policy cover the costs? Maybe — or maybe not. Drug-testing company Millennium Lab-oratories Inc. is facing just such a problem. The lab has sued its liability insurer Allied World Assur-ance Co. (AWAC) for attempting to get out of covering Millennium’s defense costs related to a HIP-AA investigation [...]
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