Life-Health-Dental Insurance · Life/Dental/Vision Insurance · No confirmed finding (unverified, not clean)
Guardian Life
Headline
Nothing confirmed
The most useful thing this row does is prevent a mistake.
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
What this pass recorded. The most useful thing this row does is prevent a mistake. Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Co. Ltd. - a separate Hawaii-based insurer - had a breach, and it is NOT a subsidiary of or otherwise connected to Guardian Life Insurance Company of America. Two different companies, shared brand word, unrelated corporate families. This matters beyond bookkeeping: consumers researching whether their insurer was breached routinely land on the wrong company, and aggregator and content-mill sites conflate similarly-named entities constantly. No confirmed breach, regulatory action or privacy settlement attaching to Guardian Life itself surfaced this pass, and that is the honest state of the row rather than a clean bill of health.
- Severity
- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
RELATED-ENTITY BREACH (distinct company, same 'Guardian' branding, worth NOT confusing with Guardian Life itself): Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Co. Ltd. (a SEPARATE Hawaii-based insurer, not a subsidiary of the national Guardian Life Insurance Company of America) suffered an August 2023 cybersecurity incident and reached a ~$2 million class-action settlement (claims deadline Dec. 21, 2025; final approval status not confirmed this pass) over allegedly inadequate customer-data protection. No breach or lawsuit specific to the national Guardian Life Insurance Company of America was independently confirmed this pass.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. NON-PUBLIC (mutual insurer; no SEC Form 10-K). Service route: c/o General Counsel / Corporate Secretary, New York, New York. Confirm the registered agent via the New York Department of State business-entity search and the insurer's filings with the New York State Department of Financial Services; a registered agent MUST accept service.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
|---|---|---|
| Privacy policy guardianlife.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service guardianlife.com/terms-of-use | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website guardianlife.com | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No comprehensive state privacy statute on file for New York