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September 19, 2025
Two beneficiaries under separate Prudential life insurance policies issued for an aviation company's pilots told a Washington federal court that they were wrongly denied benefits after their partners died in a plane crash, arguing an "aviation exclusion" either doesn't apply or should be stricken altogether.
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September 19, 2025
A Berkshire Hathaway unit has no duty to defend a group of cannabis companies in an underlying suit over a worker's death, the insurer told a Florida federal court Friday, arguing that the suit does not allege that the companies were the employers of the worker as required to trigger coverage.
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September 19, 2025
The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower state appellate panel's decision in a dispute over whether no-fault reforms enacted in 2019 apply to policies that "straddled" the reform effective dates, pointing to the top court's earlier finding that such policies are subjected to post-reform increased limits for liability.
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September 12, 2025
A former salesman for auto warranty underwriter Assurant called on a federal judge Thursday to release him from the company's suit alleging he hatched a conspiracy to poach clients and steal records, arguing his old employer had blown up a "garden-variety business dispute" into a bogus racketeering claim.
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September 11, 2025
A human resources and employee benefits management company moved one step closer to resolving a consolidated, proposed class action over a data breach that affected roughly 580,000 individuals as a California federal court gave preliminary approval to an $8.7 million settlement.
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September 08, 2025
A dentist convicted of murdering his wife on a hunting trip in Zambia to collect nearly $5 million in life insurance who became the subject of a Hulu documentary must continue to serve a life prison sentence for murder and insurance fraud, the Tenth Circuit ruled on Monday.
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September 05, 2025
A Hartford unit told an Alabama federal court Friday that it should still be allowed to remove a Japanese restaurant's fire loss coverage action to federal court despite a one-year removal deadline, saying the restaurant acted in bad faith by trying to manipulate its pleadings to defeat removability.
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August 29, 2025
The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to step in and review a pretrial order in an insurance dispute in which Mattel Inc. and Fisher-Price Inc. seek coverage of settlements in suits over infant injuries, saying a review at this time would not terminate the case, and that there's no reason not to wait for it to be resolved at the trial court.
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August 29, 2025
A New Jersey town's board of education replaced its insurance broker with a different firm after certain officials defamed him, even while the new firm cost the board more in brokerage services costs and higher insurance premiums, the broker told a New Jersey state court.
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August 29, 2025
A Second Circuit panel affirmed a Long Island medical biller's conviction Friday for bilking about $600 million from insurance companies through fraudulent claims and impersonating an NBA player and the NFL's former top lawyer, but said a federal judge had wrongly enhanced the man's prison sentence to 12 years.
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August 28, 2025
The personal information of more than 1 million Farmers Insurance customers was accessed by hackers who breached cloud-based software company Salesforce's databases, according to a proposed class action in California federal court.
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August 28, 2025
A former State Farm executive has sued political activist James O'Keefe and a woman who lied about her intentions to date him, claiming they violated Illinois' eavesdropping statute by secretly recording his comments about State Farm's diversity efforts and rate hikes and later posting misleading videos of him, costing him his job.
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August 26, 2025
A Bermuda-based reinsurer told a Connecticut state court that Aspen Insurance entities have continually breached their contractual obligations under a 2022 reinsurance agreement resulting in over $400 million in damages.
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August 21, 2025
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP has requested $2.2 million in attorney fees plus reimbursement of nearly $900,000 in expenses for the firm's work representing convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, according to a motion filed Thursday in North Carolina federal court.
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August 20, 2025
Insurers accused of paying brokers to steer customers to their Medicare Advantage plans asked a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss a False Claims Act lawsuit, saying the government is mischaracterizing legal payments for marketing as kickbacks in an attempt to impose caps it has thus far been unable to obtain.
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August 18, 2025
Cognizant TriZetto Software Group Inc.'s trade secret and breach of contract claims against competitor Infosys Ltd. were filed in a timely fashion and are detailed enough to move forward, a Texas federal judge has found.
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August 15, 2025
Montana funeral home directors may proceed with their suit claiming they were led down a path of financial ruin when they were advised to place their savings into premium-financed life insurance policies, a federal court ruled.
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August 15, 2025
An excess insurer told a California federal court that the primary insurer of a construction company failed to reach a lesser settlement amount in a suit alleging the company's owner was responsible for a car collision.
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August 11, 2025
An insurer asked a Michigan federal judge to declare it has no obligation to cover a $50 million judgment against a township, arguing the damages that stem from the township's unconstitutional zoning restrictions that a group of wineries had challenged fall outside the policy.
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August 08, 2025
During the first half of 2025, New Jersey lawmakers addressed a long-standing judicial vacancy crisis, strengthened protections for utility customers and streamlined the asbestos remediation process for Jersey City's historic courthouse.
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August 08, 2025
A West Virginia federal judge on Friday handed a win to PPG Industries Inc. in a dispute over retiree life insurance, ruling after a bench trial that the paint and coatings company was allowed to use a merger to transfer benefit management to an entity that later terminated coverage.
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August 08, 2025
The Trump administration urged a Massachusetts federal court to reject a request by a group of states seeking to stay implementation of new rules that will reduce Affordable Care Act healthcare marketplace subsidies and enforce certain enrollment restrictions.
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August 06, 2025
Tennessee and 26 other states on Wednesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hold that state statutes requiring an expert affidavit in all medical malpractice suits may be applied in federal court, arguing that overriding these laws under federal procedure rules would undermine state authority.
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August 04, 2025
A Michigan federal judge on Monday remanded to state court a dispute over the allocation of commercial general liability coverage for nationwide asbestos injury suits, reasoning from the bench that defendants who are served after a case is removed to federal court should have the right to challenge that forum change.
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July 31, 2025
Lloyd's of London underwriters and loan service provider RockFence Baseball LLC have settled their dispute over coverage for the $3.16 million loan of a former Minnesota Twins pitcher, after a California federal judge ordered the parties into arbitration in January 2024.