COVID Coverage Fight In 9th Circ. Raises Policyholder Hopes
A Las Vegas casino and resort is asking the Ninth Circuit to overturn a lower court decision that denied coverage for losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, raising policyholder hopes that the case could stand out from prior unsuccessful attempts.
Insurance Securities Payouts Prove Valuable To Jamaica
Payouts of over $240 million to Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Melissa from a catastrophe bond and parametric insurance policies show the crucial role of the growing insurance-linked securities market for immediate funding needs after natural disasters, people familiar with the development of risk-transfer mechanisms in the Caribbean told Law360.
Colo. Plan To Cut Auto Rates Aims To Educate Policyholders
Colorado's governor is aiming to increase transparency in rate-making and improve public safety under his plan to combat rising auto insurance premium costs, but more action from policymakers may be required to spur significant change in the state's auto insurance industry, experts say.
COVID Coverage Fight In 9th Circ. Raises Policyholder Hopes
A Las Vegas casino and resort is asking the Ninth Circuit to overturn a lower court decision that denied coverage for losses from the COVID-19 pandemic, raising policyholder hopes that the case could stand out from prior unsuccessful attempts.
Insurance Securities Payouts Prove Valuable To Jamaica
Payouts of over $240 million to Jamaica in the wake of Hurricane Melissa from a catastrophe bond and parametric insurance policies show the crucial role of the growing insurance-linked securities market for immediate funding needs after natural disasters, people familiar with the development of risk-transfer mechanisms in the Caribbean told Law360.
Colo. Plan To Cut Auto Rates Aims To Educate Policyholders
Colorado's governor is aiming to increase transparency in rate-making and improve public safety under his plan to combat rising auto insurance premium costs, but more action from policymakers may be required to spur significant change in the state's auto insurance industry, experts say.
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Property More
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The North Carolina Business Court plowed into the fourth quarter with two big decisions in insurance disputes that involved $50 million in COVID-19-related losses at a chain of outlet malls, and an industrial ... (more story)
A Ninth Circuit panel sharply questioned a Las Vegas casino and resort and its insurer on Thursday over their dispute concerning whether losses from the COVID-19 pandemic can be considered a covered damage or ... (more story)
The Eighth Circuit said it will rehear a Travelers unit's appeal of a $27 million fire damage award involving microscopic soot, the Delaware Supreme Court heard oral arguments over coverage for AMC's settlemen... (more story)
A construction company facing an insurer's $22.4 million subrogation action over a poultry barn fire said the insurer can't support its causation theory, telling a Nebraska federal court Wednesday "a choice of... (more story)
The Eighth Circuit agreed Wednesday to revisit its previous split decision affirming a Missouri-based apartment complex owner's $27 million jury award against a Travelers unit in a fire coverage dispute.
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A State Farm unit owes a Bayou State condominium complex over $5 million in penalties for its delayed adjustment of the complex's hurricane damage claim despite having satisfactory proof of loss, a Louisiana f... (more story)
Best Buy accused three AXA XL units of failing to properly cover its "multi-million-dollar" settlement of negligence claims over a fatal automobile collision involving an independent subcontractor, telling a M... (more story)
General Liability More
A contractor is not entitled to coverage for a slew of underlying suits over a March 2022 home explosion, a Nationwide unit told a Missouri federal court, saying the contractor breached the excess policy's not... (more story)
A pair of Allied World insurers said they don't owe coverage to East Haven, Connecticut, for a dispute over the politically motivated shutdown of a local quarry, telling a federal court that their duty to defe... (more story)
Harco National Insurance Co. breached an insurance contract by refusing a Skanska Balfour Beatty construction venture's request to cover a nearly $3.5 million bond over a subcontractor's alleged lapses while w... (more story)
A gas company's insurer owed no coverage for a suit brought by a customer who was attacked and shot by an employee, an Indiana federal court ruled, saying the suit was not an occurrence under the policy.
The third quarter of 2025 was another eventful quarter for total loss valuation class actions, with a new circuit split developing courtesy of the Sixth Circuit, while insurers continued to see negative result... (more story)
A dog training and grooming business's insurer told a Washington federal court it should owe no coverage for two cases and a civil investigative demand from the state attorney general's office relating to cust... (more story)
As courts and regulators begin to confront the realities of mental and physical injuries allegedly induced by artificial intelligence chatbots, commercial general liability insurers will need to reevaluate pol... (more story)
Two Nationwide insurers said they have no obligation to cover a $7 million default judgment entered against a contractor in an underlying suit over a plumber's head injury, telling an Illinois federal court th... (more story)
Tesla auto insurance policyholders told an Arizona federal court that the insurer has underpaid millions of dollars in claims by failing to comply with statutory requirements governing uninsured and underinsur... (more story)
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Specialty Lines More
The Eleventh Circuit limited a Florida sheriff's office's responsibility to only $1 million in a lawsuit involving a 2018 high school mass shooting, saying its insurer must pay the excess damages to the victim... (more story)
A paint and drywall product manufacturer said an Allianz unit can't rely on a pollution exclusion to avoid a dispute over coverage for underlying asbestos claims, telling a Texas federal court that the insurer... (more story)
A U.S. magistrate judge seemed skeptical of an insurer's bid to exclude a witness proffered as a policy expert on financial institution bonds, repeatedly asking Berkley Regional Insurance Co.'s counsel in a Mo... (more story)
An excess insurer for a fuel and chemical transportation company told a Utah federal court it should owe no coverage for an oil tanker collision and resultant crude oil cleanup costs, pointing to what is known... (more story)
Fried chicken fast-food chain Bojangles and one of its largest franchisees are not entitled to defense coverage in an underlying civil suit alleging a restaurant manager sexually groomed and abused two minor e... (more story)
A real estate company's insurer owes no coverage for a $3.4 million settlement resolving an employee's claim that it negligently failed to preserve video evidence of his fall into a sewer pit, an Illinois fede... (more story)
An Indiana-based regional bank told a federal court that its insurer wrongly denied coverage for a roughly $5.3 million loan it issued to an individual impersonating Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku, cla... (more story)
The Second Circuit revived a property owner and manager's negligence claim against their insurance broker, the Sixth Circuit said an insurer can't relitigate a defense cost reimbursement dispute with a reinsur... (more story)
A quartet of California-headquartered consumer law firms were behind nearly three-quarters of the website tracking and data privacy claims that both large and small businesses have reported to cyber insurer Co... (more story)
Two Michigan Supreme Court justices questioned Wednesday whether the state's tax statutes governing insurance companies exclude key phrases that would allow Nationwide entities to file as a unitary group that ... (more story)