Hartford Settles Privacy Coverage Suit Against Software Firm

A Hartford Insurance Group Inc. unit dropped a suit against a workforce software firm over underlying biometric privacy litigation.

The US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois dismissed Hartford Underwriters Insurance Co.'s lawsuit without prejudice Tuesday after the carrier filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Dec. 1.

• Hartford sued WorkEasy Software LLC in September, seeking a ruling that it didn’t owe coverage for a proposed class action brought under Illinois’ landmark Biometric Information Privacy Act.
• The insurer had dropped a previous suit against the timekeeping software company after a federal appeals court ruled in a different case that ...