As the nation’s most far-reaching data privacy law, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), is set to begin Jan. 1, 2020, businesses and their insurers are preparing for a new era in cyber liability.

Anxiety is on the rise and a sense of urgency has set in for Robert L. Wallan’s clients. Wallan, a partner in Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Los Angeles, Calif., handles class actions, insurance recovery and business-related litigation.

He has been working with clients who want to determine the language they should have in their cyber insurance policies to protect themselves before CCPA kicks in.

“I have clients; we’re in negotiations now,” Wallan said of his work on policy language for the law which is still subject to modification by lawmakers and regulators. “We don’t have final wording yet; we’re not done.”

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