Insurance litigation in federal district courts has been trending downward over the past two years, following a period of record high filings because of COVID-19 and a series of extremely destructive storms, according to a report by Lex Machina.
Insurance litigation in federal district courts has been trending downward over the past two years, following a period of record high filings because of COVID-19 and a series of extremely destructive storms, according to a report by Lex Machina.
A Pennsylvania federal court erred in preliminarily halting a state court action challenging Erie Indemnity Co.'s collection of a management fee, the Third Circuit ruled Tuesday, rejecting Erie Indemnity's position that two similar, now-dismissed lawsuits precluded the state court action from proceeding.
Illinois' director of insurance accused State Farm of failing to turn over nationwide data at a zip-code level relating to its homeowners insurance business, telling a state court that the insurance giant has relied on two "legally baseless objections" to avoid its data-sharing obligations.
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Tuesday that eight car insurance companies will pay $14.2 million to end claims they failed to protect people's personal information in light of a widespread hack involving the companies' online quoting tools.
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday partially revived a data breach class action against an insurance company, finding a subset of the proposed class has standing to sue because they allege their stolen driver's license numbers have since shown up on the dark web.
A construction company sued its subcontractor and an insurance company in North Carolina state court, seeking more than $12 million in damages after the subcontractor allegedly failed to follow through on mechanical and plumbing work at a U.S. Marine Corps air station.
A hotel group's suit seeking $12.5 million for business interruption losses stemming from Hurricane Helene should be tossed, a Liberty Mutual unit told a North Carolina federal court, saying it already filed suit first in Georgia federal court.
A Colorado federal judge has dismissed a county's lawsuit alleging Aetna Life Insurance Co. withheld more than $1 million in pharmacy rebates under an unenforceable early termination clause, agreeing with the insurance company that the clause is valid and enforceable.
Three former White House ethics attorneys have filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Justice over what they call the "vindictive and meritless" criminal prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Former U.S. Department of Justice employees, including former special counsel Jack Smith, spoke out Wednesday in support of colleagues fired or forced to resign by the Trump administration, issuing a warning about the "existential crisis" born from efforts to use the agency to punish the president's political opponents.
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative supermajority seemed ready Wednesday to further limit the use of the Voting Rights Act in challenging alleged racial discrimination in legislative redistricting, but appeared divided over how to accomplish that.
White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he wants to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to succeed in the next few months, despite the Trump administration's claims in court that the agency is just being downsized.
The government is pushing back on a Massachusetts immigration attorney's allegations that his work phone was seized in retaliation for his criticism of the Trump administration and advocacy for noncitizens, saying it's looking into whether he violated federal employment verification laws.
A Maryland federal judge denied SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein's motion to dismiss four of the 22 federal tax charges brought against him in January, ruling that his defense that the counts stemming from the 2016 tax year should be time-barred will have to be raised at trial.
Cook County's top judge issued an order Wednesday prohibiting the warrantless civil arrest of individuals attending court proceedings in Chicago-area state courthouses, as the federal government has ramped up immigration enforcement and arrests in the area.
A New York state judge has dismissed most counterclaims a former attorney for Lil Wayne pursued in a fee dispute with his ex-client, but the lawyer may still attempt to collect some funds he claims to be owed by the rap star.
A California federal judge on Wednesday granted a request from two unions representing thousands of federal workers to immediately block the Trump administration from laying them off during the government shutdown, saying she believes the plaintiffs will show that "what's being done here is both illegal and is in excess of authority."
