Meta Coverage Ruling Hinged On Intentional Conduct Claims
With a landmark social media addiction trial underway in Los Angeles, a Delaware court issued a key ruling that Meta cannot get coverage for underlying suits because plaintiffs do not allege accidental conduct.
Is It War? How Iran Conflict Designation May Affect Coverage
The question of whether the United States is "at war" with Iran could be key to whether potential insurance claims related to the conflict are ultimately covered.
Del. Justices Clear Key Hurdle For Cyber Incident Recovery
A Delaware Supreme Court ruling allowed insurers to seek a collective recovery of their policyholders' losses from a ransomware attack, clearing a key procedural hurdle for policyholders and insurers to be made whole after a cyber incident.
Meta Coverage Ruling Hinged On Intentional Conduct Claims
With a landmark social media addiction trial underway in Los Angeles, a Delaware court issued a key ruling that Meta cannot get coverage for underlying suits because plaintiffs do not allege accidental conduct.
Is It War? How Iran Conflict Designation May Affect Coverage
The question of whether the United States is "at war" with Iran could be key to whether potential insurance claims related to the conflict are ultimately covered.
Del. Justices Clear Key Hurdle For Cyber Incident Recovery
A Delaware Supreme Court ruling allowed insurers to seek a collective recovery of their policyholders' losses from a ransomware attack, clearing a key procedural hurdle for policyholders and insurers to be made whole after a cyber incident.
Expert Analysis
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A municipal self-insurance pool has filed suit in Colorado state court seeking a finding that it owes no additional coverage beyond the nearly $1 million it already paid for hail damage claimed by a Yuma Count... (more story)
Chubb European Group SE can move forward with a counterclaim against an aircraft leasing company that alleges the insurer can claim 23 Boeing and Airbus aircraft stolen by Russia at the start of the Ukraine wa... (more story)
Law360 Insurance Authority looks at the past week's top insurance news.
Chubb Ltd. and BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings Inc. have been hit with shareholder suits over their moves to exclude certain proposals from their proxy ballots this year after other corporations facing similar li... (more story)
Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Co. and multiple Florida homeowners associations have ended their dispute in Florida federal court over the associations' more than $230 million insurance claim for Pensacol... (more story)
An insurer said an auto parts manufacturer can't get $50 million in coverage for COVID-19 losses, telling a North Carolina federal court the company concealed that an employee's positive test result was false ... (more story)
An insurer said in Colorado federal court Friday that the Denver-area homeowners association accusing it of delaying and not properly covering losses following a hailstorm hasn't proved that the claimed damage... (more story)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s lawsuit seeking $95 million in coverage for a recently settled whistleblower action raises an important challenge to policy language that limits coverage for claims related to r... (more story)
A North Carolina church is entitled to $1.1 million in coverage for a roof damage claim, a semiconductor manufacturer was owed a defense against an employee's birth defect suit, and a CNA unit need not defend ... (more story)
Evolving in different contexts, property and maritime insurance take almost opposite views on the foundational concepts of good faith and bad faith, but, as evidenced by two recent decisions, they dovetail on ... (more story)
General Liability More
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday overturned an order barring Illinois Union Insurance Co. from seeking to arbitrate in London a dispute within multidistrict litigation over alleged contamination from firefighti... (more story)
Revamped rules requiring taxpayers to disclose certain microcaptive insurance arrangements to the Internal Revenue Service do not violate the Administrative Procedure Act, a Tennessee federal judge found Thurs... (more story)
An excess insurer must cover part of an $8 million judgment entered against Terminix in a pesticide exposure suit, the Ninth Circuit said Tuesday, affirming that the underlying injury arose out of Terminix's p... (more story)
A construction manager's suit seeking coverage for a $6 million construction defect dispute may proceed after a New York federal court found there were fact issues concerning the company's status as an additio... (more story)
A New Jersey cannabis dispensary depository can challenge an insurer's bid to deny coverage for a $9.5 million judgment against an armored car cash delivery service for an ex-employee's alleged embezzlement, a... (more story)
Eleven states pursuing a False Claims Act case against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals over what they say were inflated reimbursements for an eye drug can't block counterclaims by the drugmaker on sovereign immunity... (more story)
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions and 12-year prison sentence of a Michigan doctor accused of operating a cash-only "pill mill" that wrote thousands of opioid prescriptions, holding that the trial jud... (more story)
A group of insurers have no duty to defend Meta Platforms Inc. against thousands of lawsuits accusing the social media giant of designing its platforms to be addictive to adolescents, a Delaware state court ru... (more story)
An insurer for a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel was entitled to rescind its policy after the hotel was sued in connection with the fatal shooting of a guest by a security guard, a New York federal court ruled, saying ... (more story)
An Ohio woman sued Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in federal court Friday, alleging that the insurer wrongly denied her life insurance claim because her late husband used kratom, even though kratom is not... (more story)
Specialty Lines More
James River Insurance Co. is asking a Mississippi federal court to grant it a win in its suit to deny coverage of a $6.3 million default judgment against a cannabis testing company, saying the company breached... (more story)
A North Carolina state court has trimmed a company's suit claiming that its insurer obstructed its recovery of more than $116 million in coverage for an investment that didn't pay out on time, tossing a breach... (more story)
Berkley Assurance Co. doesn't owe any coverage duties to insurance executives who were sued over allegations they sabotaged their former company on their way out the door to start a rival firm, a Georgia feder... (more story)
A professional liability insurer does not have to defend the law firm that secured a $213 million award for the woman at the center of the documentary "Take Care of Maya" in a dispute over trial consultant fee... (more story)
A cyber insurer can't rely on a ransomware endorsement to limit Cicis Pizza's claim for coverage of a cyber extortion event to $250,000, a Texas federal court has ruled, saying the policy's $3 million limits a... (more story)
A North Carolina law firm has sued its insurers over coverage for nearly $130,000 it lost as a result of a forged cashier's check and related wire transfer, saying the carriers wrongfully denied coverage despi... (more story)
A commercial general liability insurer had a duty to defend a semiconductor manufacturer against an employee's suit claiming that his exposure to chemicals at work caused birth defects in his son, the Ninth Ci... (more story)
"Sentimental Value" reminds us that anxiety can interfere with performance, but unlike actors, witnesses cannot rehearse their lines or control the script, so a lawyer's role is not to eliminate stress, but to... (more story)
A recent Florida federal court decision highlights an often-overlooked risk for those negotiating directors and officers insurance coverage for mergers and acquisitions: the potential for so-called straddle cl... (more story)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan sued Chubb and other insurers in California federal court Friday seeking to tap $95 million in directors and officers liability coverage for a recently settled whistleblower actio... (more story)