The Seventh Circuit on Thursday reversed a policyholder's class certification win against Progressive Insurance over certain adjustments the insurer makes when calculating a totaled vehicle's actual cash value, finding that whether Progressive paid insureds the proper amount is a primarily individualized inquiry.
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7th Circ. Erases Class Cert. Over Progressive's Car Valuation

By Ganesh Setty

The Seventh Circuit on Thursday reversed a policyholder's class certification win against Progressive Insurance over certain adjustments the insurer makes when calculating a totaled vehicle's actual cash value, finding that whether Progressive paid insureds the proper amount is a primarily individualized inquiry.

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Insurer Asks 4th Circ. To Nix $1.1M Roof Damage Verdict

By Ganesh Setty

An insurer specializing in covering religious organizations asked the Fourth Circuit to set aside a $1.1 million jury verdict it faces over roof damage that a North Carolina church said was caused by snow, arguing the lower court's jury instructions adopted the wrong causation standard.

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NJ Mall Says Insurers Owe $20M For Prop Helicopter Damage

By Hope Patti

The owner of the American Dream mall in New Jersey said its insurers wrongfully reduced a $20.5 million claim for loss and damage caused by a decorative 2-ton helicopter falling from the ceiling of its indoor water park, according to a suit removed to federal court Thursday.

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Rising Star: Willkie's Genevieve DiSpirito

By Eli Flesch

As a litigation partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Genevieve DiSpirito helped secure favorable outcomes for AIG in several opioid crisis matters in which billions of dollars were collectively at stake, earning her a spot among the insurance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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LITIGATION

Lincoln National Beats Investor Suit Over $2.6B Loss, For Now

By Dorothy Atkins

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday tossed with leave to amend a proposed securities class action alleging that Lincoln National Corp. misled investors about its financial health before reporting a $2.6 billion net loss in 2022, finding that the investors didn't specify when Lincoln National had access to certain data and studies.

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NJ Attys Warn RICO Case Revival Would 'Chill' Lawyering

By George Woolston

The New Jersey State Bar Association told a Garden State appellate court that lawyers across the state will be chilled from zealously advocating for their clients if it revives the state's racketeering indictment against two politically connected attorneys, making it the second attorney advocacy group to file a proposed amicus curiae brief in the case.

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DEALS

Accelerant, McGraw Hill IPOs Raise Over $1.1B Combined

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Two private equity-backed companies, insurance marketplace Accelerant and education publishing giant McGraw Hill Inc., have joined the recent surge in initial public offerings, with both companies going public on Thursday after pricing IPOs that raised more than $1.1 billion total.

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Brown & Brown To Buy UK Racehorse Insurance Broker

By Tom Fish

The European subsidiary of insurance broker Brown & Brown Inc. has agreed to acquire Weatherbys Hamilton LLP, a specialist U.K. broker that offers cover for farms, estates and racehorses.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Property Insurers Serve As Climate Change Harbingers

Thomas Dawson at McDermott discusses the role that U.S. property insurers may play in identifying and assessing climate risk, as well as in financing climate change adaptation projects, in light of global warming and shifting geopolitical realities.

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Rule 23 Class Certification Matters In Settlements, Too

The U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. CASA Inc. highlighted requirements for certifying classes for litigation in federal court, but counsel must also understand how Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure may affect certifying classes for settlement purposes, say attorneys at Sidley.

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Series

Playing Baseball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Playing baseball in college, and now Wiffle ball in a local league, has taught me that teamwork, mental endurance and emotional intelligence are not only important to success in the sport, but also to success as a trial attorney, says Kevan Dorsey at Swift Currie.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Butler Snow Attys DQ'd For Fake AI Citations In Prisoner Case

By Emily Sawicki

Three Butler Snow LLP attorneys have been publicly reprimanded and removed from representing the former commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections in an incarcerated man's federal civil rights case, after a judge found they had filed motions including "hallucinations" generated by ChatGPT.

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Ky. Clerk Seeks To Overturn Marriage Equality Ruling

By Danielle Ferguson

A Kentucky clerk who made international headlines for refusing to issue marriage licenses in protest of the legalization of same-sex marriage asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn its 2015 marriage equality decision after she unsuccessfully tried to shake a civil judgment against her.

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Q&A

'Tiger King' Atty Talks Building A Firm Through Social Media

By Parker Quinlan

Hours after a federal jury in Manhattan returned a mixed verdict in a sex trafficking case against Sean "Diddy" Combs, Molly Parmer, a Georgia defense attorney and TikTok content creator with more than 94,200 followers, posted a video outlining what he could expect in terms of sentencing. Law360 spoke with Parmer about her practice and how she turned her solo firm, Parmer Law, into a space for online court observers.

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Analysis

AI Rollout At USPTO Has Attys Foreseeing Stronger Patents

By Ryan Davis

As the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office incorporates more use of artificial intelligence in patent examination, attorneys predict the technology could lead to stronger patents in the future, especially for designs, though it may make the process more challenging for applicants.

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Alina Habba Says She Is Now Acting US Atty In NJ

By Lauren Berg

Alina Habba posted on social media Thursday that she is now the acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, two days after the federal district court declined to extend her tenure in the interim position.

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Trump Admin Sues NYC To Block Sanctuary Policies

By Rae Ann Varona

The Trump administration on Thursday filed suit in New York federal court seeking to bar New York City from enforcing policies it alleges amount to "intentional sabotage" of federal immigration enforcement and thus violate the U.S. Constitution's supremacy clause.

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DOJ Sentence Ask In Breonna Taylor Case Shows Policy Shift

By Parker Quinlan

Although the request by top U.S. Department of Justice officials seeking a one-day sentence for a former Louisville police officer who participated in the raid that led to Breonna Taylor's death wasn't heeded, former federal prosecutors and defense attorneys say a government request to downgrade a sentence is unusual, but likely to recur in politically relevant matters.

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Jeanine Pirro's Nomination Advances To Full Senate

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted out seven U.S. attorney nominations Thursday, which include Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host and New York state judge, and four others who had to be revoted on after Democrats walked out of last week's meeting over objections to how the consideration of controversial Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove was being handled.

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Chamberlain Hrdlicka Wins Bid To Arbitrate Malpractice Claim

By Lynn LaRowe

Chamberlain Hrdlicka White Williams & Autry PC won a Texas state appellate decision Thursday forcing a former client to arbitrate his claims that the firm's alleged malpractice over a business restructuring ultimately cost him millions in a divorce.

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High Court Hits Pause On 8th Circ. Voting Rights Order

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday paused an Eighth Circuit order to vacate two North Dakota tribes' challenge to two of the state's voting laws that they allege will silence the state's Indigenous voters and disenfranchise millions across seven Midwestern states.

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Ex-Calif. Judge Says 'Trying To Do Too Much' Led To Backlog

By Emily Sawicki

A former California state appellate justice said health problems and a strong work ethic harmed his ability to handle his caseload quickly, leading to delays in hundreds of cases that precipitated ethics charges, telling a watchdog he "can only be faulted for trying to do too much under the circumstances."

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Brief

Senate Tees Up Vote On Emil Bove To 3rd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-48 on Thursday to tee up the confirmation of Emil Bove to the Third Circuit, which will likely happen next week.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

ArentFox Schiff

Bailey & Dixon

Bakke Grinolds

Blume Forte

Brown & Connery

Butler Snow LLP

Cahill Gordon

Carney Bates

Chamberlain Hrdlicka

Chiesa Shahinian

Cooper & Kirk

Cranfill Sumner

Critchley Kinum

Dagney Johnson Law Group

Davis Wright Tremaine

DelCotto Law Group

Dentons

Dhillon Law Group

Faegre Drinker

Finazzo Cossolini

Gibbons PC

Holland & Hart

Jacobson Phillips PLLC

Javerbaum Wurgaft

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Kassab Law Firm

King & Spalding

Krovatin Nau

Law Office of Bryan L. Sells

Lightfoot Franklin

Maples and Calder

Marino Tortorella

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Emery

Morgan Lewis

Norton Rose

Orrick Herrington

Parker McCay

Robbins Geller

Robins Kaplan

Ropes & Gray

Saxton & Stump

Sidley Austin

Smith Gambrell

Sterlington PLLC

Swift Currie

Willkie Farr

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accelerant

Accession Risk Management Group Inc.

American College of Trial Lawyers

American International Group Inc.

Apollo Global Management LLC

Brown & Brown Inc.

CBS Interactive Inc.

Campaign Legal Center

China Automotive Systems Inc.

Church Mutual Insurance Co.

Citizens Property Insurance Corp.

CoreLogic Inc.

Factory Mutual Insurance Co.

Fitch Ratings Ltd.

International Association of Insurance Supervisors

J.D. Power and Associates

Lincoln National Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Mitchell International Inc.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

Native American Rights Fund Inc.

Netflix Inc.

New Jersey State Bar Association

New York Immigration Coalition

Planned Parenthood Federation

Platinum Equity LLC

The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Michaels Organization

The Progressive Corp.

TikTok Inc.

Zurich Insurance Group AG

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision

California Air Resources Board

California Commission on Judicial Performance

California Supreme Court

City of New York

Colorado Supreme Court

European Central Bank

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Financial Stability Oversight Council

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

New Jersey Supreme Court

North Dakota Attorney General's Office

Spirit Lake Tribe

Texas Legislature

Texas State Senate

Texas Supreme Court

Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Government Ethics

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations

United States District Court for the District of Montana

United States District Court for the District of North Dakota

United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama