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August 07, 2026
An AIG unit and an excess insurer won a partial victory in their bid to seek a $3.7 million coverage reimbursement from a tree services company for two civil suits tied to claims of whistleblower retaliation that ended in murder.
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August 07, 2026
The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sue a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.
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August 07, 2026
The Ninth Circuit rejected a fund manager's bid to force a 401(k) suit into arbitration, a district court tossed a pension de-risking suit, and the D.C. Circuit unraveled a union pension fund's $13 million withdrawal liability win.
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August 07, 2026
An international tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay Liberty Mutual more than $1.5 billion over currency controls imposed by the country that ultimately prompted the insurer to sell its Venezuelan subsidiary — once the country's largest insurer — for $2 million.
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August 06, 2026
A Washington appeals panel Thursday revived Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s insurance claims around environmental liability at four sites in Washington and Oregon, ruling that the locations fell outside the scope of the railroad's decades-old settlement agreements with U.S. Fire Insurance Co.
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August 06, 2026
In answering two certified questions from the Third Circuit, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday said a worker injured while driving a company vehicle is not entitled to his employer's full general liability limit under a state law that requires employers to give workers the same underinsured motorist coverage.
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August 06, 2026
The Tenth Circuit revived a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' bid for coverage for a suit over sexual abuse by a church member. The decision widens a jurisdictional split over interpreting crucial policy language.
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August 06, 2026
Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.
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August 06, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday dismissed a suit against Cigna, Evernorth and Express Scripts from Pennsylvania pharmacy customers who alleged injury because the companies designated their community pharmacy as out-of-network, holding state-law claims were preempted by federal benefits law but allowing another chance at re-pleading.
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August 06, 2026
Fox Rothschild LLP has grown its Miami office with the addition of an experienced construction attorney from Dickinson Wright PLLC.
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August 06, 2026
Insurers do not owe coverage to a telecom company for a $27 million settlement with shareholders who said they were shorted in an acquisition, the Delaware Superior Court said, finding the settlement was a "bump-up" in shareholder consideration that was excluded under the company's directors and officers coverage.
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August 05, 2026
A class of AmTrust investors who are suing audit firm BDO USA LLP over its work on the insurer's alleged troubled financial statements won certification in the long-running suit while Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP was named class counsel.
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August 05, 2026
Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.
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August 05, 2026
A New York engineering company and its insurers withdrew their bid for a new trial after a Colorado state jury found them liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver, saying they intend to appeal.
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August 05, 2026
A Florida appellate court on Wednesday reversed a judgment that required National Assisted Living Risk Retention Group to provide coverage for a wrongful death suit from a resident's 2012 death, finding no claim was made during the relevant policy period.
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August 05, 2026
A New Jersey federal court on Tuesday said an insurer does not owe more coverage to a day spa for a suit accusing an employee of sexually assaulting a patron, finding that the insurer's obligations were capped under an endorsement that limited coverage for claims tied to molestation.
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August 05, 2026
A group of reinsurers has asked a New York federal court to order Truck Insurance Exchange to pay roughly $2.14 million in attorney fees and costs, arguing the insurer's unsuccessful lawsuit seeking to disqualify an arbitrator was brought in "obvious breach" of a covenant not to sue.
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August 05, 2026
A Chubb unit said it is entitled to recover costs paid to defend the Los Angeles Angels against wrongful death actions brought by the family of pitcher Tyler Skaggs, who overdosed while traveling for an away game, telling a California federal court that another carrier improperly denied its coverage obligations.
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August 04, 2026
A construction company's insurers cannot recoup $50 million they paid to resolve a lawsuit from New York University over project damage, the Delaware Superior Court has ruled, finding New York law would not allow insurers to recover payments made under a reservation of rights when the policy didn't expressly allow it.
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August 04, 2026
New York City and EmblemHealth will pay $53 million to resolve a class action complaint covering more than 250,000 Medicare-eligible retirees who alleged the defendants illegally charged $15 copays onto their healthcare costs, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Friday in New York state court.
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August 04, 2026
A South Carolina federal judge said Monday that an insurer does not owe coverage to a nightclub facing an $18.1 million default judgment in a suit from a performer injured in a 2019 shooting, finding the underlying claim fell under an exclusion barring coverage for assault and battery.
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August 04, 2026
American Family Mutual Insurance Co. has agreed to buy specialty insurer Bowhead Specialty Holdings in an all-cash deal valuing the company at about $1.2 billion.
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August 04, 2026
Insurance litigation defense firm Tyson & Mendes LLP confirmed to Law360 Pulse Tuesday that it is in "preliminary discussions" about taking private equity investment via a managed service organization.
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August 04, 2026
A life insurer did not breach its agreements with universal life policyholders by failing to adjust insurance rates based on improved mortality expectations, a Virginia federal court ruled, finding that the insurer had the discretion to change rates but was not obligated to do so.
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August 03, 2026
A coalition of 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in California federal court Friday, challenging an Affordable Care Act rule that shifts costs onto enrollees while reimposing certain provisions that a Maryland federal court vacated for being unlawful and arbitrary.