Insurer Can't Add McLaren Flint To Legionella Coverage Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

A Michigan federal judge said an insurer cannot add a Michigan hospital's Flint-based subsidiary to a coverage dispute stemming from legionella contamination claims, ruling Thursday that the insurer missed an agreed-upon deadline and that adding a new defendant now would disrupt the case.

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Woman's Hit-And-Run Injuries Not Covered, 8th Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

A woman struck by a vehicle while crossing the street is not entitled to uninsured motorist coverage under her employer's auto policy, the Eighth Circuit ruled Thursday, saying she was not an insured under the policy because she was not occupying a covered vehicle at the time of the incident.

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Ga. Panel Revives Man's Suit Over Accidental Shooting

By Gina Kim

Georgia appellate judges reinstated a personal injury suit by a man whose leg was amputated after being accidentally shot by a teenager, ruling Wednesday the defendants failed to show no other insurance coverage was available for the injuries under a commercial auto policy the teen's father had through his business. 

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Costco Drops Chicken Drippings Slip-And-Fall Coverage Row

By Danielle Ferguson

Costco has agreed to dismiss claims seeking coverage for an underlying suit from a man who was injured when he slipped on rotisserie chicken drippings in a California store, according to a joint motion to dismiss Wednesday.

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Paul Weiss Guides Standard Life's £2B Pensions Venture

By Tom Fish

Standard Life PLC launched a partnership with a consortium of major global financial companies on Thursday to expand in the U.K. pension risk-transfer market, with a combined initial capital commitment of up to £2 billion ($2.7 billion).

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Ex-AIG GC Fato Joins Vantage Group As Top Lawyer

By Sue Reisinger

Vantage Group Holdings, a specialty insurance and reinsurance company based in Bermuda, said Thursday it has hired the former legal chief of AIG and Seaport Entertainment Group as its general counsel.

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Mitigating The Risk Of Antiestablishment Jurors

The legal battles currently embroiling social media companies underscore that jurors with anti-corporate bias and conspiratorial thinking patterns pose myriad risks to corporate defendants, and defense counsel should adapt their trial strategies accordingly, say consultants at Persuasion Strategies.

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Being In A Band Made Me A Better Lawyer

Playing shows in storied New York City venues and rehearsing with my bandmates in poorly ventilated rooms helped develop the professional qualities I rely on as a litigator, including an ability to collaborate with strong-minded equals and the determination to treat each client with singular focus, says Eliad Shapiro at Herrick Feinstein.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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TikTok's Ex-Legal Head Made Racist Comments, Suit Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

TikTok and its former head of global legal operations have been accused in a California state court lawsuit of harassment and discrimination based on race and sex by a former legal department employee who claims the executive subjected her and other nonwhite colleagues to an "unrelenting campaign of harassment."

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Meta Atty 'Absolutely Wrong' On Client Privilege, Judge Warns

By Dorothy Atkins

With trial dark Thursday due to juror illness, a California judge overseeing states' claims that Meta Platforms Inc. hid social media's harms heard arguments over evidence, at one point criticizing Meta's efforts to assert attorney-client privilege and calling the company's in-house lawyer "absolutely wrong" about the appropriate standard.

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Uber Gets Greenlight On Most Fraud Claims Against LA Firms

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Wednesday largely rejected two Los Angeles personal injury firms' attempts to ditch Uber's suit claiming it's being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims, finding Uber has plausibly alleged that the firms schemed with a surgeon to rack up medical costs.

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Trump Taps DOJ Official, ND Solicitor General For Judgeships

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Thursday he's tapping Jesus Osete, a top U.S. Department of Justice official, to serve on the Western District of Missouri and Philip Axt, solicitor general of North Dakota, for the District of North Dakota.

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Jay-Z Appeals Buzbee Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

Music mogul Jay-Z's counsel fought uphill Thursday to convince a California state appeals court to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted him by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, arguing in court that a trial court erroneously read evidence in Buzbee's favor.

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CREXi Drops 9th Circ. Challenge To Quinn Emanuel DQ

By Isaac Monterose

Property listing company Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc. has moved to dismiss its own Ninth Circuit mandamus petition, which challenged a lower court's disqualification of CREXi's counsel, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, from a legal battle against rival CoStar.

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Eastman Among 16 Calif. Attys Disbarred In Q2 2026

By Emily Sawicki

The State Bar of California removed the licenses of 16 attorneys between April and June of this year over a broad spectrum of ethical breaches ranging from the high-profile case of John Eastman attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, to a lawyer found to be in possession of child sex abuse images.

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