If your business collects personal information from customers, cyberliability insurance could be a risk-management tool worth considering, suggests Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo member Nancy Adams.

On the firm’s Privacy & Security Matters blog, she discusses three cases involving zip code collection in which two retailers argued that their noncyberpolicies should kick in. But a federal court held OneBeacon America Insurance and The Hanover Insurance Group were not required to defend the companies.