Do You Need Libel Insurance For Your Tweets? You Probably Do If You’re Like Courtney Love

Courtney Love spent almost six years in litigation accused of libelling her former attorney in a Twitter post that was visible for less than 10 minutes. She paid a reported $780,000 in settlements as a result of two other defamation suits, both stemming from Twitter missives Love wrote about designer Dawn Simorangkir. “Twitter should ban my mother,” her daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, once said. Love, an actress and musician, and the widow of late Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, inherited the band’s publishing rights. She can afford to take on defamation lawsuits. You probably can’t, and given how much of our lives is spent venting on social media, the more vociferous among us might want to consider libel insurance.