# Is Tech Revolution Creating New Cat Risks? 

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Technology is changing the face of how we do business, even in the staid and regulation-ridden insurance industry. But just as the industrial revolution spawned the workers’ compensation insurance system, is the technological revolution creating new risks of a magnitude so far unseen? 

Can something that’s so good for the economy possibly turn into the next insurance nightmare—its next asbestos or environmental crisis? 

A recent court ruling equated the loss of use of a computer system to physical damage under an all-risk property policy even though the computer apparently did not suffer what traditionally has been equated with direct property damage.

The ruling was by the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona in American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company vs. Ingram Micro.