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April 01, 2026
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, California, told a bankruptcy judge Wednesday it removed $42 million in settlements with insurance carriers from its proposed Chapter 11 plan to eliminate one source of conflict with the committee representing abuse claimants in the case.
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April 01, 2026
An Irish reinsurer has to pay only a $1.62 million arbitral award issued to Tyson Foods for a fire at a Tyson plant in Alabama, a New York federal court said, ruling against Tyson's request for a $22.5 million payout.
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April 01, 2026
A New York state court judge said Wednesday that Luigi Mangione's trial for the alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson would begin Sept. 8, moving the date hours after a Manhattan federal judge said the federal trial against him would commence in late October.
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March 31, 2026
A D.C. federal judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction to a shareholder advocacy group suing Chubb for excluding its climate-related proposal from Chubb's yearly proxy materials, ruling Tuesday it hasn't shown the proposal falls outside U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations exempting proposals involving issues related to a company's ordinary business operations.
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March 31, 2026
A Texas federal judge has declined to let Berkley National Insurance Co. off the hook in a lawsuit accusing it of mishandling competing settlement demands, finding that a group of energy companies stated a viable claim in an amended petition that the insurer exposed them to out-of-pocket liability after exhausting most of a $22 million policy on a separate claim.
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March 31, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical that a TJX Cos. employee can recover up to the full $2 million limit in his employer's auto policy with Zurich American Insurance Co., rather than its $15,000 limit for underinsured motorists.
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March 31, 2026
An insurer doesn't owe additional coverage to the owner of a vacant church building beyond the $875,000 it already paid for a 2021 arson fire, a Missouri federal court ruled Tuesday, finding that the owner materially breached the policy's cooperation clause by failing to properly submit its damages.
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March 31, 2026
Major insurance companies including Aetna, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth must face claims they conspired to reduce reimbursements to healthcare providers, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, finding that the doctors' allegations could constitute antitrust violations.
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March 31, 2026
An Illinois federal court refused to certify a class of State Farm policyholders who accused the insurer of systematically undervaluing claims for totaled vehicles by applying a so-called typical negotiation adjustment, saying individualized issues predominated.
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March 31, 2026
A Liberty Mutual unit accused Yale University's health system of making "serious and material misstatements" about a plan member's bone marrow transplant, the insurer said in its answer and counterclaim for a declaratory judgment that it can continue to deny the $4.1 million claim.
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March 30, 2026
Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. has no obligation to cover a $2.2 million judgment won by a man alleging he was exposed to lead-based paint at a Baltimore property where he resided when he was a child, a Maryland federal judge has ruled.
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March 30, 2026
The trade organization American Property Casualty Insurance Association is urging North Carolina's justices to reverse an order adverse to a pair of insurers in a $50 million COVID-19 coverage fight, arguing in an amicus brief that the order permits the "absurd" result of one of the state's statutes and its case law applying nationwide.
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March 30, 2026
A New York federal judge declined Monday to let Swiss Re's American unit escape a suit claiming it kept an underperforming investment fund in its retirement plan and failed to utilize forfeited cash, ruling the workers behind the case showed the company may have made shoddy management decisions.
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March 30, 2026
A waste management company is not entitled to coverage for a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man who climbed into a dumpster and was crushed by a truck's compactor, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, citing an insurance policy exclusion for injuries related to the use of an auto.
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March 30, 2026
An eye doctor and his wife asked the Fifth Circuit to overturn a U.S. Tax Court decision from last year that affirmed Internal Revenue Service penalties and payments associated with their ophthalmology practice's microcaptive insurance arrangements.
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March 30, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured disputes involving globally recognized companies, high-dollar contract fights, revived claims from the state's high court and the resolution of a closely watched de-SPAC case.
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March 30, 2026
A lawyer told Florida jurors in a federal trial Monday that an AIG unit owes him more than $1 million in costs for defending a sports memorabilia company's former CEO against securities violations, saying the insurer broke a contract to pay his firm for legal services.
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March 30, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Friday rejected an insurer's bid for summary judgment in a suit seeking coverage for a $20 million settlement of biometric privacy claims, saying disputes remain over whether it waived an exclusion by failing to raise it in earlier litigation or if the company's change in strategy prejudiced the plaintiffs enough to bar its application.
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March 30, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has rejected GE Appliances' request to toss most of a suit alleging that one of its stove ranges was defectively designed and led to a fire when it was accidentally turned on, finding that a jury could reasonably agree with the plaintiff's experts' assessment of events.
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March 30, 2026
Four Nationwide units have no duty to defend a marker manufacturer in an underlying suit by a competitor alleging it colluded with former employees to use trade secrets and other proprietary information, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled.
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March 30, 2026
An insurer has no duty to defend a home goods retailer accused of using another company's trademark in its online advertising and marketing, an Illinois federal court ruled, finding that the underlying suit does not allege a covered personal and advertising injury.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled a proposal Monday to expand access to alternative investments, like private equity and digital assets, in retirement plans by establishing a safe harbor process for fiduciaries to follow when deciding where retirees' savings go.
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March 27, 2026
A California federal judge has shaved off a year from convicted ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' 11-year-and-three-month prison sentence for securities fraud due to recent sentencing guideline amendments, reducing her time behind bars by one year, instead of the two years she requested, amid objections by prosecutors.
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March 27, 2026
Former Timeshare Exit Team customers who claim the now defunct firm's insurers failed to defend it from a consumer protection class action that yielded a $630 million deal have suggested that a Seattle federal judge request clarity from the Washington State Supreme Court on certain coverage questions.
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March 27, 2026
A federal judge in the U.S. Virgin Islands has sent back to territorial court an ophthalmology clinic's lawsuit seeking punitive damages from its insurers that allegedly underpaid claims resulting from Hurricane Maria, which swept through the Caribbean in 2017 and caused about $1 million of lost income and damage to its property.