Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog

On March 5, 2026, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced that the agency had reached a settlement with Ford Motor Company resolving an enforcement action against the company that alleged noncompliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act’s opt-out of sale/sharing rights.

On December 16, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission announced an enforcement action against Illusory Systems Inc., a Utah-based company doing business as Nomad, following a major data breach in which hackers stole $186 million from consumers.

On November 21, the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service published four proposed rules to amend the Endangered Species Act implementing regulations. Generally, the Services propose to reinstate language from the first Trump Administration’s 2019 regulations in provisions concerning interagency section 7 consultation, criteria for listing species and designating critical habitat, protections for threatened species, and exclusions from critical habitat designation.

On November 20, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of the Army issued a notice of a proposed rulemaking to update the definition of “waters of the United States” under the Clean Water Act for consistency with the US Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency and to clarify key terms for implementation.