Lloyd’s Can Deny Grocer Coverage in Biometric Privacy Dispute

An Illinois specialty food retailer lost its bid to have Lloyd’s of London underwriters insure it, in a class action by employees alleging it violated a state biometric privacy law, a split appellate court ruled Tuesday.

The underlying Illinois Biometric Privacy Act lawsuit alleged that Tony’s Finer Foods Enterprises Inc. illegally collected employee fingerprints without their consent, in a database maintained by Kronos, a timekeeping company.

But the 2018 lawsuit didn’t “allege any sort of third-party access” to employee data that Tony’s didn’t “authorize, either due to computer security failures or for any other reason,” the Illinois Appellate Court, First ...