Exclusion Bars Coverage For Home Depot’s Data Breach Loss, 6th Circuit Majority Affirms

( January 14, 2025, 2:20 PM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A majority of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Jan. 13 affirmed an Ohio federal court’s finding that a commercial general liability insurance policy’s electronic data exclusion bars coverage for Home Depot’s losses stemming from a 2014 data breach, rejecting Home Depot’s contention that the lower court “wrongly expanded the narrow electronic-data exclusion beyond its natural meaning, based on assumed facts outside the record.”...