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May 06, 2026
Connecticut Healthcare Insurance Company, a Cayman Islands insurance company indirectly owned by Prospect Medical Holdings, has filed a Chapter 15 petition in Texas bankruptcy court seeking recognition of its Cayman winding-up proceedings that involve a $26 million payment to Prospect.
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May 06, 2026
Threats of future harm and "generalized anxiety" about possible identity theft are not enough to support a proposed class action against a Connecticut credit union hit with a data breach, and there's no reason to believe cybercriminals accessed member accounts, the defense has told a federal court in seeking dismissal.
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May 06, 2026
Two Chubb insurers must defend an upstate New York town against a state environmental department's claim concerning a regional airport's contamination by so-called forever chemicals unless and until they can establish the claim falls outside an exception to a pollution exclusion, the Second Circuit affirmed.
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May 06, 2026
A Connecticut lawyer who pled guilty to moving $3 million in pump-and-dump stock scheme proceeds through his trust account is again seeking readmission to the state bar, about two months after a judge allowed him to work as a paralegal under the supervision of another attorney.
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May 05, 2026
Recreational cannabis users hit some of the industry's largest companies — Cresco Labs, Green Thumb Industries, Verano Holdings and Curaleaf — with two sprawling lawsuits alleging the businesses overcharged for products deceptively marketed as safe and effective treatments for mental health disorders.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court should revive claims that the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund was mismanaged, a Teamsters-represented worker argued, asking the justices to breathe new life into his twice-dismissed Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a bakery company's bid for review of a union multiemployer pension withdrawal bill, the Fourth Circuit held a bonus plan was exempt from federal benefits law, and the Sixth Circuit ruled federal law preempted Arkansas pharmacy benefit manager laws and regulations. Here's more on those and two other major decisions from April that benefits attorneys may want to know.
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May 05, 2026
The state of Connecticut is liable for the wrongful death of a 7-month-old boy thrown by his father from a Middletown bridge into the Connecticut River, the infant's estate and mother argued at a bench trial on Tuesday in Waterbury Superior Court after seeking at least $5 million in damages last year.
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May 05, 2026
The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that national banks are exempt from a New York law that requires interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, handing a key victory to Bank of America NA in closely watched litigation testing the limits of states' banking regulatory authority.
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May 05, 2026
Connecticut-based fertility products manufacturer CooperSurgical Inc. has reached a settlement with a proposed class of in vitro fertilization patients and their partners, who claimed the company's defective product caused the loss of their embryos.
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May 05, 2026
Hartford Insurance members should not be granted summary judgment in a $1.7 million premium suit, a government contractor has said, arguing in Connecticut federal court the contractor has successfully pled its breach of contract claims.
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May 05, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has held the wife of a fugitive Oak Management Corp. trader in contempt for trying to use her divorce case to take control of assets under the management of a receiver, who was appointed as part of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil suit.
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May 04, 2026
Nexstar is not pleased with the Second Circuit's decision to revive DirecTV's antitrust suit accusing the broadcasting giant of trying to fix the price of retransmission fees, and it's hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will step in and overturn the ruling.
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May 04, 2026
A Second Circuit panel refused Monday to let a group of gas stations separately sue Visa and Mastercard over their swipe fees, holding the would-be plaintiffs cannot get out of a $5.6 billion antitrust settlement the credit card giants inked with merchants.
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May 04, 2026
Trade law and contract claims by Cormidi USA Inc., the American arm of an Italian construction and landscaping machinery-maker, have been rendered moot by Wesco Inc.'s debt payments amid a lawsuit accusing two shared executives of self-dealing, Wesco and its owner Robert Testa told a Connecticut state judge Monday.
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May 04, 2026
A former Google Cloud salesman who claims the company fired him during cancer treatment to avoid a nearly $4 million life insurance payout told a Connecticut federal court that Google's latest bid to dismiss his suit should be denied.
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May 04, 2026
Streaming video service subscribers accusing World Wrestling Entertainment LLC of luring them into switching providers have asked a Connecticut federal judge to reject attempts by ESPN LLC and its subsidiary BAMTech LLC to enter the fight, arguing the court should respect their choice of who not to sue.
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May 04, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday upheld the murder conviction of a man who claimed prosecutors failed to disprove that he acted in self-defense, and declined the defendant's request to adopt what the justices called a "more flexible standard" for instructing a jury on lesser included offenses.
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May 04, 2026
A former manager at an Ohio labeling and packaging facility and his ex-employer have settled a federal lawsuit alleging he took a job with a competitor and then poached another employee, in violation of his noncompetition and nonsolicitation agreements.
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May 04, 2026
Out-of-state delivery drivers can't pursue their wage claims against Bimbo Bakeries in a Vermont federal court, the Second Circuit ruled Monday, finding their claims aren't tied closely enough to the company's activities in the state.
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May 04, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a wide-ranging docket of deal disputes, advancement fights, stockholder suits and contract claims, with several matters turning on timing, forum limits and the remedies available when transactions or governance agreements break down.
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May 01, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a breakdown of federal and state efforts to expand affordable housing and how real estate attorneys are responding.
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May 01, 2026
Major banking industry groups have urged the Second Circuit to remand to the Federal Reserve Board its order blocking a New York bank's proposed cash guarantee program for homebuyers, arguing the decision relied on a flawed legal interpretation that would effectively erase a key pathway for banks to pursue "complementary" nonbank activities.
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May 01, 2026
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has failed to pay tens of millions in reimbursements to hospitals serving low-income populations by incorrectly factoring service days for patients enrolled in Medicare Part C, a coalition of 91 medical centers claimed in a D.C. federal lawsuit.
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May 01, 2026
A federal judge in Boston heard elite universities argue Friday that the "early decision" admissions process is not a scheme to raise tuition but an option for students who want a better shot at admission to their first-choice school.