Cyber Insurance - Promise or Problem?

Chris places network, privacy, technology and media E&O insurance for a wide variety of companies including financial institutions, authentication providers, manufacturers, healthcare, retail and telecommunications companies.  Christopher has also executed Cyber Information Risk Assessment projects and worked with regulators on evaluation of E-Business risks. Prior to joining Beecher, Christopher was a National Resource at Willis for Cyber and E&O and a leader of the Information Risk Advisory Practice at Marsh focusing on Privacy, Technology, Media, Network Intellectual Property and Professional Liability insurance products.

Scott is a Chambers-rated insurance recovery litigator, with over 20 years of experience in helping companies recover from their insurers. I am co-chair of my firm’s national insurance recovery and counseling practice. Getting insurers to cover losses due to cyberattacks, ransomware, and data privacy events is how I’m best known, having focused on the area in 2008. I’ve litigated, won, and settled cases under cyberinsurance, crime insurance, CGL, property, D&O, and E&O policies for a variety of cyber and privacy risks.

As Executive Vice President and CTO of Solis Security, Chris Loehr oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s Incident Response and Proactive Cybersecurity teams. With over 25 years of leadership experience in designing and delivering cybersecurity and IT operational strategies for the financial industry, Chris is passionate about assisting small and medium-sized organizations through difficult cyber-attacks. Chris’s primary platform is ensuring that organizations understand that cybersecurity is a key business risk and must be treated and respected as such.