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31 Ariz St. L.J. 259 (1999)
Turning Back the Clock on the Millenium Bug: Trigger of Coverage for Year 2000 Claims under CGL Occurrence Policies

handle is hein.journals/arzjl31 and id is 273 raw text is: COMMENT TURNING BACK THE CLOCK ON THE MILLENNIUM BUG: Trigger of Coverage for Year 2000 Claims Under CGL Occurrence Policies Taylor C. Young* I. INTRODUCTION A. The Year 2000 Problem The Year 2000 Problem (Y2K) is the most anticipated systems crisis in the history of the computer.' The problem stems from the inability of many business application software programs to process dates past the year 2000.2 For decades, computer programmers have reduced the four-digit year to its last two digits in an effort to conserve expensive memory space.3 Computers programmed to use the mm/dd/yy format generally assume that the first * J.D. candidate Arizona State University College of Law, 2000; B.F.A. Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1992. For their helpful criticism and valuable insights, I wish to thank Professor Michael Berch and journal editors Jeffrey Kilmark and Mel Faraoni. I am grateful to the Y2K Taskforce members of O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Killingsworth, & Beshears, P.A., for the initial exposure to this topic. This Comment is dedicated to Julie, Hannah, and Jackson, whose support made it possible. 1. Other computer crises do come to mind, such as the Michaelangelo virus which occurred on March 6, 1993. However, it is clear that no single programming problem has commanded the attention and resources that government and business have devoted to Y2K. 2. See Jeff Jinnett, Legal Issues Concerning the Year 2000 Computer Problem, in UNDERSTANDING, PREVENTING AND LITIGATING YEAR 2000 ISSUES: WHAT EVERY LAWYER NEEDS TO KNOW Now 103, 105 (PLI Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, & Literary Property Course Handbook Series No. G-506, 1998) [hereinafter LITIGATING YEAR 2000 No. G-506]. 3. See MICHAEL S. HYATT, THE MILLENNIUM BUG: HOW TO SURVIVE THE COMING CHAOS 5-6 (1998) (noting that the code for many of these programs was initially written in the late 1960's).

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