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May 14, 2026
Albertsons isn't entitled to defense or indemnity for more than 100 suits accusing the pharmacy and grocery chain of fueling the opioid epidemic, a Delaware state court ruled, tracking the state high court's rulings in nearly identical disputes involving Rite Aid and CVS.
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May 14, 2026
Drug buyers urged a Massachusetts federal jury on Thursday to find that Takeda Pharmaceuticals conspired with another drugmaker to keep a generic version of anticonstipation drug Amitiza off the market in order to boost its own profits.
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May 15, 2026
Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP has brought on a new partner in Atlanta, adding an attorney with more than 15 years of experience whose practice focuses on catastrophic injury defense and premises liability matters.
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May 13, 2026
A New Orleans church urged a Louisiana federal judge to reopen litigation in order to sanction Lloyd's of London underwriters and other insurers, accusing them of repeatedly impeding efforts to arbitrate a nearly 4-year-old $2.7 million dispute over hurricane damage coverage.
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May 13, 2026
A Florida federal jury found a former healthcare company executive guilty on Wednesday of swindling Medicare out of $450 million with software that created false prescriptions for orthotic braces.
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May 13, 2026
A Colorado state jury declined to award $32.5 million to the lead contractor of the reconstruction project of a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Denver, finding instead that the contractor breached a subcontract and owes its subcontractor $1.3 million in damages.
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May 13, 2026
A group of Washington-based Denny's franchise operators said their Liberty Mutual insurers wrongfully refused coverage for a wage and hour class action, telling a federal court that they are entitled to recoup nearly $700,000 in costs they incurred to defend and settle the underlying suit.
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May 13, 2026
Two people who accused a reproductive endocrinologist of using his own sperm to impregnate their mothers have proposed that the doctor settle their suit against him for a total of $880,000, according to separate offers filed in Connecticut state court.
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May 13, 2026
The South Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a double murder conviction and ordered a new trial for disgraced attorney Alex Murdaugh, finding the jury in his first trial was biased by a clerk of court who allegedly sought a guilty verdict in a ploy to juice sales of her book about the trial.
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May 13, 2026
A retired military officer and his wife have agreed to end a lawsuit against Ameritas and a former insurance agent alleging a fraudulent investment scheme based on the sale of unsuitable equity-indexed annuities, according to a notice filed Wednesday in North Carolina federal court.
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May 13, 2026
An insurer for a summer camp operator and a former counselor accused of sexually abusing children have settled a dispute over coverage for the now-resolved civil suits brought against him, according to an order dismissing the case.
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May 12, 2026
The insurer for an auto repossession company and one of its drivers told a Georgia federal court that it does not owe more than its $1 million limit in a case involving the driver hitting a child on a bike, saying the settlement demand from the child's family did not obligate the insurer to resolve the dispute.
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May 12, 2026
An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a cyberattack during which its financial chief provided confidential login information to hackers, who used his email account to instruct employees to wire them nearly $7 million.
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May 12, 2026
Under Armour told a Maryland federal court that the insurers it reimbursed after the Fourth Circuit capped its coverage for a securities class action, government investigations and derivative matters at $100 million are not entitled to millions of dollars in prejudgment interest.
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May 12, 2026
An insurance broker asked a Pennsylvania federal court to consider new constitutionality arguments against the IRS penalty prepayment requirement to revive its challenge to $6.6 million in captive insurance tax penalties, arguing those claims rely on new legal precedent.
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May 12, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel revived a suit Tuesday brought by a shooting victim's widow against the insurance broker for the store where he was killed, reversing a trial court's ruling that the store couldn't assign its claims against the broker after a $1 million judgment.
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May 12, 2026
A quadriplegic woman is not entitled to benefits under a long-term care policy, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, saying the policy expressly states that it does not cover the loss of ability to perform daily living activities that existed before it went into effect.
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May 12, 2026
A California judge slashed a $103 million jury verdict in favor of a former Liberty Mutual employee who said she was treated poorly and fired because of her age, concluding that the severity of the harassment she alleged did not warrant $83 million in punitive damages.
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May 11, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday said an insurer doesn't waive its right to rely on a policy exclusion after initially defending a claim, backing Berkley Insurance Co. in a coverage dispute stemming from self-dealing suits against a pharmaceutical company and its chairman.
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May 11, 2026
The excess insurer for a construction company said it is entitled to recoup amounts it contributed to settle an underlying crash dispute that resulted in a $17.3 million verdict against its policyholder, telling a California federal court it was prejudiced by the company's "extremely late reporting" of the incident.
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May 11, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court denied Monday a policyholder's bid for the court to rehear his case after the justices dismissed his claims last month and limited the reach of a Colorado law addressing procedural requirements for insurers asserting failure-to-cooperate defenses against policyholders.
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May 11, 2026
Medical providers accused of scheming to fraudulently bill for unnecessary or unrendered treatments under the Michigan No-Fault Act have asked a federal judge to reject Allstate's bid for a pretrial win, arguing a jury should decide whether the providers intended to defraud the insurer.
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May 11, 2026
An Indiana-based Christian school said it is entitled to tap into more than $12 million in coverage for a sprinkler system leak and resulting water damage that left its building uninhabitable, telling a federal court that its insurer has wrongfully limited coverage to $10,000 under a flood sublimit.
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May 11, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a varied mix of settlement approvals, political office disputes, transaction fights, emergency injunction bids and questions over how far the court can go to preserve records for litigation outside Delaware.
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May 11, 2026
Federal agencies overseeing employer-provided health coverage proposed new rules aimed at expanding workers' access to coverage for infertility treatments and related health conditions by letting employers offer voluntary fertility health benefit policies for procedures such as in vitro fertilization.