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May 20, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A defense expert may testify that a man suffers from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in addition to other asbestos-related illnesses, a federal judge in Louisiana said May 19 in denying a motion to exclude. In other developments, the court announced that the man had settled with Shell USA Inc. and asked the court to reconsider summary judgment on a nonintentional tort claim, and the parties wrapped briefing on a plaintiff expert’s “contaminated house” testimony.
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May 20, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Court of Appeals of North Carolina on May 20 affirmed a lower court order granting a motion for a charging order filed by a life insurance company against the economic interest of former insurance mogul, Greg Lindberg, in his holding company, Global Growth Holdings LLC, finding that the lower court had statutory authority to issue the charging order and “was not required to establish in rem or quasi in rem jurisdiction over Global because charging orders are not directed at foreign LLCs but rather concern the judgment-debtor’s personal property.”
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May 20, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, a Louisiana federal judge dismissed the putative class suit for lack of subject matter jurisdiction with leave to amend, finding that though the insured failed to establish “standing for monetary relief,” the complaint can be amended to show injury by alleging that the interest payment the insured received on insurance settlement proceeds was insufficient.
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May 20, 2026
MIAMI — The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) filed a notice of appeal in a Florida appellate court of a lower court order denying its motion for entitlement to attorney fees in a dispute with a condominium association over FIGA’s alleged failure to cover water damage.
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May 14, 2026
LAKELAND, Fla. — A Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court order granting in part a homeowner’s motion to enforce a settlement and denying in part a motion for sanctions against the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) in a breach of contract dispute after FIGA was substituted for a now-insolvent property insurer.
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May 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York state justice granted three bank defendants only partial dismissal of a segregated accounts insurer’s amended complaint arising from the Vesttoo Ltd. letter of credit reinsurance scheme, dismissing a negligence claim as duplicative but allowing fraud, misrepresentation and negligent supervision claims to proceed based on allegations that the insurer had standing and sufficiently pleaded liability, reliance and notice tied to allegedly fraudulent letters of credit used in reinsurance transactions.
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May 13, 2026
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Vermont federal judge denied an auditor’s motion for summary judgment in a negligence suit filed against it by the liquidator of a now-insolvent insurer alleging that three years of audited financial statements failed to adequately state the financial position of the insolvent insurer, finding that the auditor “has not shown it is entitled to summary judgment.”
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May 12, 2026
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In a breach of contract suit, a court clerk filed a final disposition form indicating that the case was disposed by a Florida state court judge after homeowners accepted a $30,000 settlement proposal from the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA), which was substituted as the defendant for their now-insolvent homeowners insurer.
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May 12, 2026
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut state judge ruled that no oral argument is needed on a motion to intervene filed in the rehabilitation proceedings for PHL Variable Insurance Co. by a group of policyholders seeking limited intervention to pursue, or obtain authority to pursue, potential claims against entities formerly affiliated with PHL through its pre-rehabilitation corporate structure on behalf of PHL’s estate, ordering that the motion and the rehabilitator’s objection will be decided “on the papers.”
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May 11, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — In an insurance dispute over coverage for damage purportedly caused by a storm, a Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court’s order denying homeowners’ motion for a new trial after a jury returned a verdict in favor of the insurer.
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May 11, 2026
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In a hurricane coverage dispute, a Florida appellate court denied a motion by a homeowner for referral to appellate mediation and to stay briefing in her appeal of a jury verdict and final judgment for the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association.
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May 08, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A Louisiana federal judge granted partial summary judgment to a man who suffers from asbestos-related injuries in his suit against the shipyard where he worked, as well as multiple entities, including the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), finding “no reason to diverge” from prior decisions in the same court precluding the shipyard from “raising a government contractor defense” as to failure-to-warn and asbestos spread claims.
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May 01, 2026
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court order granting an insured’s motion to enforce a $35,000 settlement in a breach of contract dispute with the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA), which was substituted for a now-insolvent insurer that reached a settlement with the insured before the insurer’s liquidation.
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April 29, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a docket-only entry, a North Carolina federal court issued a notice setting a sentencing date of May 26 in criminal cases against insurance magnate Greg Lindberg in which he pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy related to his $2 billion scheme to defraud insurers and policyholders and was convicted on retrial in a related criminal proceeding for bribing the North Carolina insurance commissioner.
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April 24, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The California Fair Plan Association (CFP) said it is appealing a California court’s grant of summary adjudication in favor of an insured as to his sole remaining claim for declaratory relief in his lawsuit alleging that CFP issued property insurance policies with fire coverage that is unlawfully restrictive as to smoke damage claims.
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April 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, the lender filed a motion in Louisiana federal court seeking to change the date for oral argument on its motion to dismiss.
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April 23, 2026
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut state judge granted limited intervention but denied emergency relief sought by universal life policyholders in PHL Variable Insurance Co.’s rehabilitation, holding that despite the rehabilitator’s Dec. 31 shift to a liquidation strategy, his decisions to reject a proposed premium suspension or escrow mechanism remained lawful, rational and in good faith under the deferential standards governing rehabilitation proceedings.
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April 21, 2026
LAKELAND, Fla. — A Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court ruling granting attorney fees to a medical practice in its dispute with the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) over payment for medical treatment for a patient insured by a now-insolvent insurer, agreeing with the lower court that the practice is not entitled to attorney fees incurred prior to the insurer’s insolvency because the litigation occurring prior to the insolvency was not related to FIGA’s denial of coverage.
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April 21, 2026
DETROIT — A Michigan appellate court for the second time reversed and remanded a trial court’s dismissal for failure to post a $5,000 security bond in a personal injury protection (PIP) auto insurance coverage dispute, finding that on remand, the trial court “failed to articulate any rationale supporting the amount of the security bond considering plaintiff’s uncontested indigence.”
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April 16, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. — In a breach of contract dispute between insurers in liquidation or rehabilitation and their former owner, insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, and related parties, a North Carolina appellate panel on April 15 dismissed an appeal by nonparties seeking review of a trial court’s interlocutory show cause order regarding why the nonparties should not be held in civil contempt for allegedly transferring assets in violation of a temporary restraining order (TRO), finding that the nonparties failed to show that the order was immediately appealable.
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April 15, 2026
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — After a jury returned a verdict in favor of a Florida homeowner, she filed an opening brief appealing the lower court’s final judgment ordering the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) to pay her $46,855.75, which represents the actual cash value of the cost to repair the plumbing system in her home that purportedly caused water damage, arguing that the lower court erred when it prevented the jury from considering the estimate for replacement cost value damages.
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April 14, 2026
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Pursuant to a North Carolina federal court order staying the case until sentencings in related criminal proceedings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, his advisory services company and its former executive filed a joint status report in the SEC’s suit accusing Lindberg and related parties of defrauding clients out of more than $75 million.
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April 13, 2026
LAS VEGAS — A Nevada federal magistrate judge dismissed without prejudice a bad faith suit filed against an insurer, finding that dismissal is appropriate because the plaintiffs failed to file a report by the agreed-upon April 1 deadline regarding the insurer’s liquidation proceeding in Kansas.
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April 10, 2026
NEW YORK — An insolvent insurer filed a reply brief in New York federal court in further support of its dismissal motion in a suit filed against it by a purported student loan debtor alleging that the insurer and multiple parties participated in a fraudulent debt collection practice resulting in a lien against her property, asserting that the court should dismiss the claims against the insurer “under principles of abstention and comity in favor” of pending liquidation proceedings in a Delaware court.
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April 10, 2026
SEATTLE — Adding to the mixed record in a string of similar Employee Retirement Income Security Act challenges to pension risk transfers (PRTs), a Washington federal judge granted dismissal of the putative class suit with leave to amend upon concluding that Weyerhaeuser Co. retirees had standing but failed to plausibly state their claims.