After 2014 Epic case, TCS faces fresh US lawsuit for stealing trade secrets

A US-based insurance platform provider has claimed TCS is using its trade secrets to build a competing software platform, as part of TCS BaNCS, in the life insurance market

Computer Sciences Corp (CSC), a US-based insurance platform provider to a client of software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has alleged in a lawsuit filed with a US district court last week, that the latter has been stealing its trade secrets.

CSC has claimed that TCS is using their trade secrets to build a competing software platform, as part of TCS BaNCS,  in the life insurance market. TCS works with eight of the top ten banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) companies in US.

In 2014,US software firm Epic Systems filed and won a similar lawsuit against the IT major, although TCS