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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
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July 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.
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July 01, 2026
Insurance law took center stage in Colorado's appellate courts during the first half of 2026, but civil rights litigation produced its own notable mark on the landscape. Here, Law360 breaks down four major rulings in Colorado courts from the first half of 2026.
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July 01, 2026
A Hartford unit prevailed in its bid to force another insurer to split $6.5 million in settlement costs stemming from a gas line explosion at a Maryland apartment complex, after a federal court found the "other insurance" clauses in the excess policies to be mutually repugnant.
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June 29, 2026
Five of the largest health insurers in the Garden State have asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to designate 160 pending cases seeking the enforcement of alleged independent dispute resolution payment determinations issued under the federal No Surprises Act as multicounty litigation, according to a notice to the Bar Association.
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June 29, 2026
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners suspended its designated ratings for insurer investments after hackers suspected of belonging to the ShinyHunters group captured nonpublic information, including ratings determinations of insurer investments.
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June 29, 2026
A father-daughter attorney duo is asking the full Fourth Circuit to rethink their convictions in a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, arguing a U.S. Supreme Court decision that came down just two days after a panel affirmed their guilty verdicts supports their argument that prosecutors pursued charges in the wrong state.
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June 26, 2026
A former executive for the bankrupt cryptocurrency firm Celsius Network has told a New York federal court that he is entitled to directors and officers liability coverage for his costs defending a criminal case in which he pled guilty to manipulating the price of the firm's crypto token.
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June 26, 2026
Three Hispanic insurance agents in North Carolina said in a new complaint that they were singled out for investigation and ultimately fired after the Liberty Mutual unit that employed them stereotyped their predominantly Hispanic customer base.
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June 26, 2026
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding agency fines without a jury trial supports an insurance broker's challenge to a $6.6 million tax penalty imposed by the Internal Revenue Service, the broker told a Pennsylvania federal court.
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June 25, 2026
A recently sentenced insurance magnate is asking a North Carolina federal court to order the federal Bureau of Prisons to grant him daily access to computers and his attorneys as he continues to fight a $1.6 billion restitution order.
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June 24, 2026
A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday affirmed the award of $389,362 in attorney fees for a firm that represented a homeowner in a Hurricane Irma coverage dispute, but found that a lower court unjustifiably multiplied the award to bring it up to roughly $1 million.
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June 24, 2026
Drivers alleging their insurance carriers sold deceptive underinsured motorist benefits have secured approval of a $6.5 million settlement resolving a class action in New Mexico federal court that highlighted novel legal issues and led the state's top court to declare that underinsured motorist coverage with minimum limits in the state was misleading to the average consumer.
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June 24, 2026
Two brothers convicted in a $1.4 billion scheme to bill insurers inflated rates for drug tests told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence to support their convictions and that they should have been allowed an evidentiary hearing after potential juror misconduct emerged following the trial.
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court messed up when it ruled in an antitrust suit against Johnson & Johnson that the company bringing the suit needed to show specific intent in order to prop up a monopolization claim over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara.
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June 22, 2026
An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates was correctly denied coverage of its own insurance claim stemming from fraudulent emails that caused employees to wire nearly $7 million away from the agency purportedly at the financial chief's direction, the Seventh Circuit ruled.
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June 22, 2026
The representative of a child who was seriously injured after a tow truck struck her while she was riding a bicycle urged a Georgia federal court to toss an insurer's suit over the validity of a settlement demand, saying the suit is not ripe while the underlying injury suit is pending.
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June 18, 2026
An engineering and design company has asked a Colorado state judge to order a new trial after jurors found it liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver.
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June 18, 2026
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. told a North Carolina federal court that a construction company owes about $1.5 million for losses Liberty incurred in connection with the contractor's work on a school construction project for which Liberty executed bonds.
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June 18, 2026
A pharmaceutical company said its insurers improperly denied coverage to fix an eye dropper bottle filling machine, arguing the machine's breakdown caused extensive interruption to business activities that would trigger the policy, according to a complaint removed to California federal court Wednesday.