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August 10, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday affirmed an insurance company's win in an ex-worker's suit alleging his long-term disability benefits stemming from his bout with long COVID were wrongfully denied, upholding a district court's decision to back the insurer's denial based on the medical evidence.
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August 10, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge has sentenced a preparer of fraudulent tax returns to two years in prison after prosecutors said his cooperation against a client who operated a bribery-fueled insurance scam was marred by confusing proffers and altered records.
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August 10, 2026
An Arkansas federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action alleging Arkansas medical system Washington Regional mismanaged the system's employee 401(k) plan, holding that allegations of underperforming investment funds weren't backed up with enough comparisons to better-performing ones to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.
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August 10, 2026
An excess insurer owes up to $5 million in coverage for a financial service company's arbitration over allegations workers misappropriated their previous employer's trade secrets, the Delaware Superior Court said, finding the arbitration was not connected to a dispute that occurred before the policy period.
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August 10, 2026
A Colorado-based workers' compensation insurer provided no notice of its audit guidelines to a construction company and canceled the company's policy when it disputed the audit premium charges, according to a proposed class action in state court.
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August 10, 2026
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association beat most claims in a proposed privacy class action Friday when an Illinois federal judge ruled that federal employees' searches for doctors, symptoms and medical conditions on its public website did not amount to protected health information.
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August 10, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that an insurance company must defend a doctor in disciplinary proceedings for allegedly stalking and harassing a patient to whom he prescribed an addictive medication for several years.
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August 10, 2026
Kevin Zimmerman of BakerHostetler successfully argued to the Fifth Circuit to reverse class certification for drivers suing United Services Automobile Association, and persuaded the Tenth Circuit to reject a novel statute of limitations theory, earning him a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 10, 2026
An insurer must defend and indemnify a plumbers' union-backed education fund accused of retaliating against a member who claimed he was wrongfully terminated after submitting a request for paternity leave, a New Jersey federal court ruled, finding that an exclusion barring coverage for activities of the union does not apply.
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August 10, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger settlements, contract claims, controlling stockholders, music rights, prejudgment interest, absentee voting and stockholder standing.
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August 10, 2026
Lowe's has settled a dispute seeking coverage from a Chubb unit toward an underlying $90 million wrongful death settlement involving an employee of the home improvement giant, according to a notice filed days before a jury trial was expected to begin in North Carolina federal court.
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August 07, 2026
World Wrestling Entertainment shareholders are asking a Delaware court to force Vince McMahon and other WWE board directors to sign off on a $147 million deal that will end a lawsuit over the company's 2023 merger with UFC parent Endeavor, with parties indicating that a dispute has opened up among the defendants over insurance coverage.
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August 07, 2026
A professional liability insurer urged a California federal court to find that an excess insurer can't rely on a policy exclusion barring coverage for claims brought before the policy's start date to get off the hook for a law firm's defense in malpractice litigation.
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August 07, 2026
An excess insurer told a California federal court it owed no part of a $5 million policy for suits claiming a software company unlawfully tracked customers' web activity, while the software company told an Illinois federal court that its primary policy is exhausted and the insurer's refusal to pay is improper.
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August 07, 2026
An AIG unit and an excess insurer won a partial victory in their bid to seek a $3.7 million coverage reimbursement from a tree services company for two civil suits tied to claims of whistleblower retaliation that ended in murder.
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August 07, 2026
The past week in London has seen Cleary Gottlieb sue a former client it advised on the proposed sale of a holding company and the continuation of litigation between pharma giants Merck Sharp & Dohme and Merck KGaA over rights to the Merck name in the U.K.
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August 07, 2026
The Ninth Circuit rejected a fund manager's bid to force a 401(k) suit into arbitration, a district court tossed a pension de-risking suit, and the D.C. Circuit unraveled a union pension fund's $13 million withdrawal liability win.
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August 07, 2026
An international tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay Liberty Mutual more than $1.5 billion over currency controls imposed by the country that ultimately prompted the insurer to sell its Venezuelan subsidiary — once the country's largest insurer — for $2 million.
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August 06, 2026
A Washington appeals panel Thursday revived Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s insurance claims around environmental liability at four sites in Washington and Oregon, ruling that the locations fell outside the scope of the railroad's decades-old settlement agreements with U.S. Fire Insurance Co.
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August 06, 2026
In answering two certified questions from the Third Circuit, the New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday said a worker injured while driving a company vehicle is not entitled to his employer's full general liability limit under a state law that requires employers to give workers the same underinsured motorist coverage.
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August 06, 2026
The Tenth Circuit revived a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' bid for coverage for a suit over sexual abuse by a church member. The decision widens a jurisdictional split over interpreting crucial policy language.
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August 06, 2026
Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.
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August 06, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday dismissed a suit against Cigna, Evernorth and Express Scripts from Pennsylvania pharmacy customers who alleged injury because the companies designated their community pharmacy as out-of-network, holding state-law claims were preempted by federal benefits law but allowing another chance at re-pleading.
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August 06, 2026
Fox Rothschild LLP has grown its Miami office with the addition of an experienced construction attorney from Dickinson Wright PLLC.
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August 06, 2026
Insurers do not owe coverage to a telecom company for a $27 million settlement with shareholders who said they were shorted in an acquisition, the Delaware Superior Court said, finding the settlement was a "bump-up" in shareholder consideration that was excluded under the company's directors and officers coverage.