Legal & Lege TREND. Employer Liability. Employee Data.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that employers have a duty to protect employees from cyberattacks by setting:

• Employer Duty: “a legal duty to exercise reasonable care to safeguard”
• Remedy: a recovery for negligent behavior under the economic loss doctrine

Dittman v. UPMC, 2018 Pa. LEXIS 6051 (Pa. Nov. 21, 2018)

White & Williams | Pennsylvania Supreme Court Holds Employers Have Duty to Protect Employee Data from Cyberattacks