Court Rules in Favor of Printer in Ransomware Case

A Maryland federal district court ruled Thursday that an insurer must indemnify a screen-printing business under its businessowner’s policy for costs incurred in a ransomware attack.

Owings Mills, Maryland-based National Ink & Stitch LLC had a businessowners’ insurance policy with Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Co. between March 2016 and March 2017, according to Thursday’s ruling by the U.S. District Court in Baltimore in National Ink and Stitch, LLC v. State Auto Property and Casualty Insurance Co.

The company stores art, logos and designs for its business on its computer server as well as graphic arts, shop management, embroidery and webstore management software, according to the ruling.