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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.
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July 21, 2026
A New York federal judge rightly tossed allegations that Pepsi violated federal benefits law by making employees who smoke pay more for health insurance, the nation's largest business lobby argued in an amicus brief, urging the Second Circuit to affirm dismissal of the suit.
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July 21, 2026
Insurers wrongly denied a Denver, Colorado-based flour milling company $6 million in coverage for damage to equipment caused by an explosion at its Texas facility, the company alleged in Colorado state court.
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July 21, 2026
A Michigan state appeals court revived a suit brought by medical providers seeking to recover no-fault benefits for treatments they provided to a woman injured in a crash, saying a trial judge failed to consider lesser sanctions for a discovery violation before barring key witnesses and effectively ending the case.
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July 21, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed that insurance fraud and racketeering claims can't be forced into the state's personal injury protection arbitration system, finding the process too narrow for complex fraud litigation.
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July 21, 2026
The former chief financial officer of Patriot National Inc. testified to a Florida jury on Tuesday that "chaos" broke loose as funds that Simpson Thacher helped steward for the insurance services company hit public markets and executives found out that its terms differed from their understanding of them.
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July 21, 2026
Pennsylvania's laws against human trafficking don't translate into a "public policy" that justifies insurers denying coverage to a Philadelphia hotel accused of turning a blind eye to trafficking, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is withholding more than $1 billion in Medicaid dollars from California and Minnesota because the agency suspects healthcare fraud in those states, officials announced Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
Cyber insurer Homesite Insurance Co. and United Airlines filed dueling lawsuits in Illinois federal court this week over losses stemming from the CrowdStrike outage in 2024 that brought air travel to a standstill.
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July 20, 2026
Cox Enterprises and two insurers competed Monday for an early win in the company's suit alleging it was wrongly denied coverage for more than $15 million in expenses spent defending, and ultimately settling, a lawsuit that aimed to hold the internet service provider liable for users' illegal downloads.
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July 20, 2026
A dispute between an AIG unit and another insurer over coverage for a trucking company's crash settlement will proceed to trial to determine the allocation of the deal, an Ohio federal court said, declining to decide whether the company was liable for the crash as a motor carrier or broker.
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July 20, 2026
An insurance company's coverage dispute with a Virginia Beach restaurant accused by a group of models of misappropriating their images was sent back to the district court Monday by the Fourth Circuit to determine if the lawsuit became moot when the restaurant settled with the models.
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July 20, 2026
Another group of insurers is pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve whether state or federal law applies when deciding whether a nonsignatory to an international arbitration agreement can force arbitration of a property damage coverage dispute, an issue they say is "of national and international importance."
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July 20, 2026
A corporate founder seeking more than $100 million in a malpractice case against Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP endured a withering cross-examination in Florida state court Monday over his companies' money flows and an auditor's refusal to certify their financial statements two years after the fundraising transaction he believes the firm botched.
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July 20, 2026
A Connecticut federal court dropped the state and its former environmental commissioner from a dispute over coverage for a developer accused of unlawfully encroaching on and destroying public land, finding that the state defendants are shielded by the Eleventh Amendment's grant of sovereign immunity.
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July 20, 2026
Health insurers including Aetna and UnitedHealth Group are urging a Florida federal court to pause discovery in an attorney's malicious prosecution suit pending a decision on the insurers' motions to dismiss, saying they expect the case to be tossed or significantly trimmed.
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July 20, 2026
Healthcare systems affiliated with the University of North Carolina settled two lawsuits accusing Humana of underpaying for drugs purchased through the federal 340B drug discount program, according to notices in North Carolina federal court.
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July 20, 2026
Alea Holdings US Co., a unit of Bermuda-based insurance group Catalina Holdings, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with roughly $280 million in funded debt, saying it plans to use the case to push through a $20 million deal with a major creditor.
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July 17, 2026
A Maryland federal judge stayed a set of Affordable Care Act marketplace reforms that were set to take effect Monday, finding several cities and groups representing doctors and small businesses were likely to succeed in their Administrative Procedure Act challenge against them.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to induce them to buy a drug that treats eye inflammation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
A sibling dispute over the treatment of their widowed father and his property is not covered under a plumbing company's insurance policy, an insurer told a Washington federal court, saying the owner of the company is not an insured for his own actions outside of managing the business.
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July 17, 2026
The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.
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July 17, 2026
A mechanical contractor said it's entitled to recover its full $500,000 policy limit for the loss of more than $844,000 in an embezzlement scheme by two former employees, telling a Florida federal court Friday that its insurer has wrongfully limited payment to $165,000.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.