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Federal judge tosses coverage suit over ex-coach’s data breach
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Federal judge tosses coverage suit over ex-coach’s data breachA unit of The Hartford won dismissal of a lawsuit accusing it of wrongly denying coverage to a software company facing dozens of lawsuits over a data breach tied to a former University of Michigan football coach.
The students sued Keffer along with Mr. Weiss and several universities, claiming Keffer failed to secure the platform.
Mr. Weiss was indicted in 2025 on charges that he hacked into more than 100 colleges and universities and downloaded personal information on more than 150,000 athletes.
On Thursday, U.S. District Judge William S. Stickman IV of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Pittsburgh rejected both theories.
He also agreed with Hartford that a separate policy exclusion for information-disclosure claims independently barred coverage.