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  • June 10, 2026

    Fla. Panel Says Policy Breach Verdict Didn't Bar Bad Faith Suit

    A Florida appellate panel on Wednesday revived a restaurant owner's claims that its insurer acted in bad faith in not resolving a claim over losses from a roof collapse before the contract dispute went to trial, finding the extra-contractual damages the company sought had not yet been litigated.

  • June 10, 2026

    Doctor's Sex Conviction Reversed Over Undisclosed Notes

    A doctor convicted of sexually abusing his patient and other crimes is entitled to a new trial, a New York state appeals court said Wednesday, finding the state failed to disclose social work notes in a timely fashion, which substantially prejudiced the doctor's case.

  • June 10, 2026

    'Angry' Uber Driver Set Palisades Fire On Purpose, Jury Told

    The massive and deadly Palisades Fire in January 2025 wasn't an accident but the intentional work of an Uber-driving arsonist angry with society and his own life, federal prosecutors told a Los Angeles jury during opening statements in Jonathan Rinderknecht's criminal trial Wednesday.

  • June 10, 2026

    Denver Asks Justices To Stay $14M Protest Policing Judgment

    The city of Denver and one of its police officers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to recall and stay a Tenth Circuit ruling that upheld a $14 million jury verdict finding Denver liable for officers' unconstitutional force against protesters during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in the city.

  • June 10, 2026

    Yale Hit With $7.7M Verdict Over Doctor's 'Preventable' Death

    Yale New Haven Hospital and Yale University must pay $7.73 million to the family of a doctor and onetime Yale School of Medicine assistant professor who developed an infection following bowel surgery and died five days later, a Connecticut state jury has concluded.

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