Judge Finds Coke Had No Contractual Duty To Safeguard Employee Information

Mealey's (April 5, 2017, 2:07 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — Finding that The Coca-Cola Co. (Coke) had neither an express nor implied contractual duty to protect its employees’ personally identifiable information (PII), a Pennsylvania federal judge on March 31 granted summary judgment to the beverage company on a putative breach of contract class action related to the theft of laptops containing employee information (Shane K. Enslin v. The Coca-Cola Co., et al., No. 2:14-cv-06476, E.D. Pa., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 49920)....