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October 17, 2025
An insurance broker accused of mishandling a furniture retailer's insurance procurement, which left the retailer without coverage for a fire, is not entitled to defense or indemnity under its professional liability policy, the broker's insurer told a California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
The LEG-3 exclusion, a defect exclusion developed by the London Engineering Group, stood largely untested for nearly three decades, but just two years after a Washington, D.C., federal court found the exclusion to be ambiguous, policyholder attorney Angelia Wesch tells Law360 that whether the underwriting group tightens the exclusion's language remains to be seen.
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October 16, 2025
A group of domestic and foreign insurers including underwriters at Lloyd's of London have asked a Louisiana federal judge to dismiss their lawsuit seeking an order to arbitrate a $7 million Hurricane Ida damage claim, saying they have settled the dispute.
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October 16, 2025
Travelers is seeking to recoup around $1 million in costs from a shipping logistics company that it says failed to verify to whom it was providing a shipment of cameras, resulting in their theft, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
A Chubb unit urged a California federal court to rule that it needn't pay a software company CEO and his wife millions of dollars for living expenses related to a 2017 water damage claim, saying the couple made misrepresentations regarding the habitability of their Beverly Hills estate.
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October 16, 2025
Illinois' insurance regulator demanded that State Farm turn over data over its homeowners insurance business, the Sixth Circuit affirmed class certification in a dispute over State Farm's payments for totaled vehicles, and the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a policyholder's untimely notice doomed coverage for a gas station's underground fuel tank leak. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.
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October 16, 2025
An AIG unit and three manufacturing companies have agreed to end a $7 million suit in which the insurer sought to recoup costs connected to a fire at an iron processing plant in Corpus Christi, Texas, according to a motion filed in federal court.
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October 16, 2025
Northeast Insurance Co., a captive insurer for several hospitals and a Jewish nonprofit, asked a New York bankruptcy judge for Chapter 15 recognition of its Bermuda liquidation filing, saying it was rendered insolvent by claims stemming from the state's Child Victims Act.
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October 15, 2025
A group of 22 states and the District of Columbia urged a Massachusetts federal court Wednesday to block the Trump administration's termination of a disaster mitigation program under the Federal Emergency Management Agency, arguing such authority lies with Congress.
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October 14, 2025
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.
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October 14, 2025
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.
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October 14, 2025
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.
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October 10, 2025
The property owner of a dry cleaner isn't owed coverage for an investigation and remediation demand conducted by a state environmental protection agency, a New Mexico federal judge ruled, finding that an absolute pollution exclusion barred indemnification and defense obligations.
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October 10, 2025
A panel of Sixth Circuit judges upheld the class certification of a suit alleging State Farm systematically undervalues totaled vehicles, saying that a class of Tennessee insureds were linked by a common alleged harm of breach of contract.
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October 09, 2025
An AIG unit urged a Florida federal court Thursday to reject a contractor's claims it can't be held liable for more than $1.8 million in coverage payments over a yacht fire caused by dock wiring that lacked ground fault protection, arguing the state building code required such protection.
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October 09, 2025
Private flood insurance executives see a market opportunity for a growing sector of the property and casualty industry as the National Flood Insurance Program remains restricted in its ability to renew or sell flood coverage amid the government shutdown.
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October 09, 2025
As insurance carriers evaluate ways to utilize new technologies in their claims and underwriting processes, the use of drones and aerial imagery has emerged as an opportunity to improve response times and efficiency, specifically in connection with natural disasters, insurer-side experts say.
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October 09, 2025
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network announced Oct. 9 that it has renewed directives requiring title insurance companies to identify the people behind shell companies in non-financed, residential property deals in over a dozen states.
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October 09, 2025
A Georgia federal court has rejected a Chubb unit's sanctions bid in a fire loss coverage dispute, finding that although its insureds failed to adequately join two individual defendants in a broader attempt to defeat the court's diversity jurisdiction, such conduct wasn't frivolous nor amounted to bad faith.
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October 09, 2025
A South Carolina school district can't get review of its insurance arbitration dispute, an insurer had a duty to defend a home renovation company in an underlying car crash suit and a State Farm unit needn't pay a $2.5 million assault judgment. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.
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October 08, 2025
A condominium association said its insurer must provide coverage for more than $8.1 million in hidden water damage, telling a Washington federal court the insurer failed to acknowledge that weather conditions such as rain and wind-driven rain contributed to the damage and are covered under its policies.
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October 07, 2025
A smoke shop's insurer told a North Carolina state appeals court the shop shouldn't receive coverage for a lawsuit alleging it's liable for a fatal auto collision because it sold nitrous oxide products to the at-fault driver, arguing its policy covered bodily injury only on the shop's premises.
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October 07, 2025
A condominium association told the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday that an insurer can't sue for damages to an owner's unit, arguing a 2021 state law that went into effect provided immunity from a negligence lawsuit stemming from a policy claim brought afterward.
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October 07, 2025
A title insurer has no duty to pay a mortgage lender's claim over a $510,000 loan a borrower alleged was fraudulent, it told a North Carolina federal court, saying its closing protection letter explicitly excludes coverage for third-party fraud and that no policy was ever issued.
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October 02, 2025
Ongoing efforts in Canada to develop a national flood insurance program should prioritize coverage for high-risk properties and accompany endeavors to lower flood risk in a country that is experiencing more destruction from natural catastrophes, experts say.