Equifax Data Breach May Prompt Shareholder Derivative Suit

Principal Denver Edwards was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA article, “Equifax Data Breach May Prompt Shareholder Derivative Suit,” by Jimmy H. Koo on September 13. The article discusses the recent breach of Equifax customers’ data and the possibility of a shareholder derivative suit.

A derivative suit against Equifax will likely allege breach of fiduciary duty. The purpose of any derivative suit is to “redress damages done by directors and officers,” but it isn’t “easy to have the board take action as they need to look at what happened” and assess whether there were any red flags, Edwards said.

To read more of Denver’s input and the entire article on the Bloomberg BNA website, click here. To read the article as a PDF, click here.