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August 15, 2025
Prime Property and Casualty Insurance Inc. is suing a towing company in Florida federal court, saying it has no obligation to continue defending it in an injury suit stemming from injuries to a woman after one of the company's drivers helped jumpstart her car.
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August 14, 2025
A Texas federal judge's ruling that a chemical manufacturer can continue to pursue litigation against a reinsurer in connection with the manufacturer's roughly $100 million business interruption claim offered a well-reasoned analysis as to when a policyholder has standing to bring a direct action against a reinsurer, experts said.
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August 14, 2025
A recent Florida appellate court ruling affirming that the state's last-resort insurer properly denied a late-filed claim for hurricane damage wasn't surprising given legislative changes in recent years, but highlighted the import of filing timely claims, experts say.
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August 14, 2025
A mortgage lender said it is owed $540,000 from a title insurer after a borrower filed a complaint with the North Carolina Department of Justice about fraudulent activity related to his loan, telling a federal court the insurer shirked its obligations under the policy and related coverage documents.
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August 14, 2025
The increase of flooding in areas outside mandatory flood insurance purchase zones is contributing to mortgage risks for underinsured homeowners following disasters, underscoring a need to find ways to ensure more people have flood coverage, experts say.
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August 14, 2025
An insurer and a Florida condominium association have settled a dispute over coverage for property damage caused by a September 2020 hurricane, according to a New York federal court filing.
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August 14, 2025
A California state court dismissed a property owner's claims that its insurer refused in bad faith to cover nearly $2 million in vandalism losses after its tenant, a cannabis cultivator, ended its lease, but found the owner's breach of contract claim can still proceed to trial.
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August 14, 2025
Defense cost payments by 3M can't satisfy the self-insured retention of its subsidiary's insurance policies, a subcontractor's insurer must indemnify a property owner in a pending injury suit, an excess insurer owes $2 million for a car crash, and a gym chain may have coverage for losses stemming from COVID-19 shutdown orders. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.
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August 14, 2025
Wallace Stevens was an acclaimed modernist poet, but his parallel career as an insurance attorney isn't as widely discussed, according to attorney Daniel J. Kornstein, who has studied Stevens' life. To mark the 70th anniversary of Stevens' death, Law360 spoke with Kornstein about what insurance law may have meant to the poet.
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August 11, 2025
Governmental COVID-19 shutdown orders, and not the pandemic itself, are what constitute an "occurrence" under Life Time Fitness' commercial property policy with Zurich American Insurance Co., a Minnesota state appeals panel ruled Monday, specifically analyzing an "interruption by communicable disease" endorsement providing up to $1 million per occurrence.
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August 08, 2025
A Georgia federal judge refused to let Bank of America escape a proposed class action accusing it of overcharging residential trusts for insurance, ruling in part that the named plaintiff can seek damages for his breach of trust claim against the bank.
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August 08, 2025
A Georgia federal judge refused to grant AMCO Insurance Co. an early win on most claims in its suit asserting it has no duty to defend an Atlanta apartment complex sued by a resident who was struck by bullets while sleeping.
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August 07, 2025
California regulators gave fire victims a boost last week when the state's insurance department launched a legal action seeking penalties against the state's last-resort insurer for its handling of smoke damage claims, but the market effects of the move are still not fully clear.
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August 07, 2025
The Tenth Circuit recently affirmed that a water damage exclusion applied to a Kansas office building's $1.75 million repair claim from a broken water pipe, providing insurance experts an unusual case for weighing two seemingly related exclusions against one another.
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August 07, 2025
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias launched a new campaign aimed at reducing auto insurers' use of nondriving factors when setting rates on the grounds that these elements contribute to discriminatory rate-setting, but insurer and consumer advocates are split over the initiative's efficacy and potential cost increases.
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August 07, 2025
A jewelry store's property insurer owes no coverage over claims for rainstorm damage, a Michigan federal court ruled Thursday, finding an exclusion barring coverage from water overflow due to floods was applicable.
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August 07, 2025
The Archdiocese of New York demanded disclosure of reinsurance policies in a discovery-related appeal amid underlying sex abuse litigation, Zurich was accused of putting both its interests ahead of another insured's, a Georgia poultry producer sued for data breach coverage and an insurer sought to avoid covering racketeering claims.
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August 07, 2025
Recent widespread fires in and around California's wine-producing regions, which produce a vast majority of the nation's wine, have spurred concern from policyholders and public officials over how wineries can seek coverage for smoke tainting their products. Victor Jacobellis, an insurance recovery attorney at Merlin Law Group, spoke to Law360 about the implications of smoke taint as well as a Senate bill that could provide a baseline standard for measuring it.
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August 07, 2025
A recent cyberattack against St. Paul, Minnesota, highlights the importance of cyber coverage for cities and counties, with the caveat that financial vitality, state and federal laws, and third parties retained for incident response can impact a municipality’s amount of coverage and the ways in which it can respond, Reed Smith LLP partner J. Andrew Moss told Law360.
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August 07, 2025
An insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify a man facing a civil claim of negligently blinding a Los Angeles police officer with a laser, it told a California federal court, saying the man's criminal conviction for assault means his conduct was intentional and therefore not covered.
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August 06, 2025
An insurer can't escape a Louisiana church's suit seeking nearly $5 million in coverage for claimed Hurricane Ida damage, a federal court ruled Wednesday, rejecting the insurer's contention that the church breached the policy's cooperation requirement and failed to provide timely proof of loss.
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August 06, 2025
The Council on State Taxation backed entities of Nationwide in the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday, saying the justices should affirm an appellate court's decision that said the insurance company's affiliates are entitled to file their taxes as a combined group of businesses.
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August 06, 2025
A ceramics and home goods retailer accused a Travelers unit of violating North Carolina's unfair claims settlement practices and deceptive trade practices laws, telling a federal court the insurer deliberately misrepresented statements from its chief financial officer to support its denial of the retailer's Hurricane Helene claim.
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August 05, 2025
State Farm has no duty to defend or indemnify a man facing wrongful death claims after he unintentionally shot and killed a woman in a domestic dispute, the Sixth Circuit affirmed Tuesday, finding that his intentional gunshots still created a foreseeable risk of harm and thus weren't an insurable accident.
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August 05, 2025
A hotel owner's insurer must turn over certain documents relating to the disciplinary history, compensation and qualifications of certain claims adjusters, an Idaho federal court ruled after the owner accused the insurer of intentionally delaying the resolution of its fire loss claim.