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July 23, 2026
The Colorado Insurance Code's reference to "unfair business practices" in a statute governing insurers' responsibility for the acts of their producers is not limited to various "unfair methods of competition" and "unfair or deceptive acts or practices," a state appeals court said in a matter of first impression Thursday.
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July 23, 2026
A Missouri appellate court upheld a win for a group of insurers on their arguments that a "your products" policy exclusion applied to bar coverage of alleged damages from drugmaker Mallinckrodt's unbranded marketing of opioid products.
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July 23, 2026
State high courts took the lead on specialty line insurance issues in the first half of 2026, including on cyber recovery disputes and the nuances of directors and officers coverage. Law360 has a midyear look.
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July 23, 2026
A sushi chef appealing a nearly $600,000 default judgment in an underlying action urged a Georgia federal court to toss an insurer's suit against him and his former counsel, arguing that his appeal should be handled first.
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July 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has shuttered a worker's suit claiming soup producer The Campbell's Co. imposed an illegal fee on employees if they used tobacco, ruling that his case fell apart because he never disclosed whether he enrolled in a program that would have allowed him to dodge the extra charge.
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July 23, 2026
Federal prosecutors are perplexed by the carousel of defense attorneys that has emerged to represent billionaire Greg Lindberg in his political corruption and wire fraud cases, according to a motion Thursday asking a judge to determine who is now defending the insurance mogul.
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July 23, 2026
A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising vehicle alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. told a Florida jury Thursday that he flagged deal terms that later became detrimental to the insurance services company.
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July 23, 2026
The first half of 2026 has seen continued development of artificial intelligence systems in the insurance industry, including new coverage terms for policyholders and evolving regulatory scrutiny for insurers. The changes promise to alter the insurance market in the months to come.
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July 22, 2026
Walgreen Co. is urging an Illinois federal judge to again sanction a Blue Cross Blue Shield insurer and its subsidiary for allegedly failing to produce key email evidence the pharmacy retailer says "upends" the insurers' 6-year-old claim that it intentionally overcharged them for prescription drugs.
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July 22, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday tossed a proposed class action alleging that a tobacco fee on Target workers' health plan violated nondiscrimination provisions in federal benefits law, agreeing with the retail giant that the suit failed to state a claim.
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July 22, 2026
A group of international arbitration scholars are pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that federal law determines whether a nonsignatory to an international arbitration agreement can force arbitration of a dispute, saying a Fifth Circuit decision erroneously applied state law and contributes to unpredictability.
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July 22, 2026
Cambia Health Solutions Inc. stole millions of dollars from the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services over more than a decade by submitting fraudulent diagnostic information to the government, according to a whistleblower's False Claims Act lawsuit unsealed by a Seattle federal judge this week.
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July 22, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge barred respective appellate experts for a Chubb unit and Lowe's from testifying at an upcoming trial over coverage for an underlying $90 million wrongful death settlement, finding their opinions are irrelevant to the issues that will be before the jury.
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July 22, 2026
The Tenth Circuit has affirmed an insurance company cannot be sued for bad faith over a woman's fatal liposuction surgery that resulted in a $60 million judgment, holding that under Utah law, an insurer is not obligated to explain a policy absent an ambiguity or evidence of fraud.
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July 22, 2026
An Illinois federal court Wednesday sanctioned an insurer in a drug wholesaler's suit seeking coverage for underlying opioid litigation, finding that the carrier intentionally destroyed key emails and underwriting records in order to deprive the wholesaler of that information.
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July 22, 2026
Counsel for a 5-year-old Michigan boy killed in a January 2025 hyperbaric chamber fire asked a Michigan federal judge on Wednesday to pause a lawsuit from Nationwide Insurance, which is seeking a declaration that it is not responsible for covering the fatal incident.
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July 22, 2026
A retired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner who handled the fundraising round alleged to have destroyed Patriot National Inc. testified in a Florida state malpractice trial Wednesday that the insurance services company waved off his attempt to present details to the board.
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July 22, 2026
Textron Aviation Inc. wants a Connecticut state judge to order the National Transportation Safety Board to release a two-hour-long cockpit voice recording from a Cessna airplane that crashed into an industrial campus shortly after takeoff, saying the full recording is necessary for fair trials in wrongful death and insurance disputes.
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July 22, 2026
Allstate told a Pennsylvania federal court it has no duty to defend an individual facing underlying suits over a fatal drunken driving accident, saying coverage is excluded under his parents' homeowners policy because of his alleged furnishing of alcohol to minors involved in the incident.
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July 22, 2026
A maker of vehicle valuation software needn't cover the $2.5 million that an insurer paid in connection with a class action alleging that its former affiliate underpaid claims for totaled vehicles, a New York federal court ruled, finding that the insurer has no enforceable subrogation rights.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor urged the Second Circuit to shut down a suit claiming drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb violated federal benefits law by offloading $2.6 billion in pension liabilities to a risky annuity provider, saying benefit plans stand to suffer if courts greenlight flimsy claims of injury.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm unveiled a proposal Wednesday that would provide more opportunities for electronic delivery of employer-provided health plans' mandatory disclosures.
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July 21, 2026
An air ambulance service looking to collect unpaid transport bills from Blue Cross Blue Shield's parent company argued Tuesday that its lawsuit should proceed because court enforcement is its only hope for combating the insurer's practice of ignoring the No Surprises Act's otherwise tight payment deadlines.
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July 21, 2026
A New York federal judge refused to remove a "side-switching" arbitrator from a dispute over coverage for millions of dollars' worth of asbestos bodily injury claims, ruling that Truck Insurance Exchange's lawsuit is barred under a "hold harmless" pact it inked with the counterparty, a group of foreign reinsurers.
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July 21, 2026
The Seventh Circuit backed a Wisconsin federal court's decision to hand the University of Chicago and its pension plan manager TIAA an early win in a dispute over a deceased worker's spousal pension benefits, and declined to certify a question about power of attorney authority to the Wisconsin Supreme Court.