Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

On March 20, 2026, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed SB 546 into law, enacting the Oklahoma Consumer Data Privacy Act, which will take effect on January 1, 2027.

On February 6, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission announced its second report to Congress on its efforts to combat ransomware and other cyber attacks.

If recent years have taught insurance practitioners anything, it is that the most consequential coverage disputes rarely turn on novelty alone. In 2025, courts continued to resolve high‑stakes insurance disputes by returning to first principles—examining when claims are related, how losses and occurrences are defined and aggregated, and how policy language allocates risk across time and conduct. D&O coverage and other core insurance law issues again occupied center stage, while decisions in property, cyber, and liability disputes reinforced a familiar theme: policy interpretation remains the decisive factor in determining whether coverage is available in an increasingly complex claims environment. As the decisions discussed below demonstrate, 2025 confirmed that even as risks evolve, coverage disputes remain grounded in careful, policy‑specific analysis.

On January 27, 2026, the Centre for Information Policy Leadership hosted a fireside chat with California Privacy Protection Agency General Counsel Phil Laird in honor of Data Privacy Day.