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March 27, 2026
The North Carolina Business Court saw an unexpected shakeup with one judge's retirement, rendered a pivotal decision in a first-of-its-kind climate change case against Duke Energy and oversaw a trial between the feuding owners of a commercial bed skirt company.
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March 27, 2026
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York, has agreed to pay $148 million as part of a settlement reached with a committee of sexual abuse claimants in its Chapter 11, it announced Friday.
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March 27, 2026
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit ruling that upheld a $168 million judgment in a trade secret case, arguing the decision allowed an unjust enrichment award without proof that an IT competitor suffered any monetary harm.
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March 27, 2026
A coalition of states told a federal judge that the Trump administration appears to have ignored an order limiting the types of Medicaid data that can be shared with immigration officials, potentially handing over reams of "off limits" data on citizens and green card holders.
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March 27, 2026
The past week in London has seen Apple hit back at a tech company's wireless charging patent claim, a flurry of businesses bring COVID-19 pandemic insurance claims as a key deadline draws closer and Ipulse Partners LLP file a claim against a luxury yacht company it represented in a trademark dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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March 27, 2026
A New Jersey appellate court on Friday ordered an attorney to pay $1,000 in sanctions for failing to rectify AI-hallucinated case citations pointed out to him in an appeal concerning reimbursement sought by a workers' compensation carrier.
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March 27, 2026
An insurer asked an Illinois federal court to reject a drug wholesaler's bid for sanctions in a dispute over coverage for underlying opioid litigation, saying the accusations that it intentionally destroyed pertinent evidence are, "at best, based on half-truths and misstatements of fact."
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March 27, 2026
Jack in the Box Inc. has sued the buyer of its Del Taco business in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the purchaser and its affiliates of breaching key post-sale obligations tied to insurance coverage and transition services.
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March 26, 2026
A provision of the Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Act governing notice of work-related injuries does not require sole proprietors of a business to notify their insurers of their injuries within 120 days in order to be eligible for benefits, the state's highest court ruled Thursday.
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March 26, 2026
Midwestern law firm McDonald Hopkins LLC must produce email communications in connection with litigation accusing Blue Cross units of a smear campaign against a clinical lab owner, an Ohio federal judge ruled, finding the documents were not protected by work product or attorney-client privilege.
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March 26, 2026
An insurer missed its chance to file negligence claims against a man it alleged illegally represented himself as an adjuster to demand nearly $48 million on behalf of a transportation agency for damage from Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rico federal court ruled Thursday.
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March 26, 2026
A California jury has found that actor Kevin Spacey's absence from the final season of "House of Cards" was not due to a sex addiction sickness he was being treated for, a verdict that denies claims by the production companies behind the show that its insurers owed them around $100 million when he failed to return for the hit Netflix series' swan song.
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March 26, 2026
Corebridge Financial Inc. and Equitable Holdings Inc. said Thursday they have agreed to merge in an all-stock transaction that values the combined company at about $22 billion, in a deal steered by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP and Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP.
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March 25, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday largely rejected a bid by insurers and brokers to toss claims that they colluded in a kickback scheme to steer Medicare Advantage customers to certain companies and to push away disabled individuals.
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March 25, 2026
A professional liability insurer for a law firm owes no coverage for a suit against the firm's named partner alleging he coordinated with his wife to steal trade secrets from a corporate client where his wife served as an executive, a Georgia federal judge ruled Wednesday.
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March 25, 2026
A Michigan appellate panel has affirmed a multi-million-dollar judgment won by the city of Detroit following a bench trial, holding that developers improperly kept millions in insurance proceeds after a fire destroyed a senior housing project.
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March 25, 2026
A Liberty Mutual unit must face most of a Connecticut woman's claims that the insurer mishandled a car crash suit she filed against its policyholder that ultimately resulted in a nearly $1.6 million judgment, a Connecticut federal court ruled.
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March 25, 2026
Federal regulators moved Wednesday to curb their authority to subject large asset managers, insurers and other nonbank firms to heightened, bank-like supervision, proposing guidelines that would reinstitute tougher standards for these too-big-to-fail designations.
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March 25, 2026
An AIG unit is entitled to $3.9 million of a contractor's attorney fee award in underlying arbitration over a bridge building project, an Indiana federal court ruled, rejecting a surety's contention that the insurer's right to the award is secondary to its perfected security interest or equitable subrogation rights.
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March 25, 2026
An insurer does not owe coverage in an antitrust suit accusing a pharmaceutical company of suppressing generic versions of the Parkinson's treatment Apokyn, a Maryland federal judge ruled, finding the dispute does not involve "securities claims" covered under the insurer's policy.
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March 24, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit appeared conflicted Tuesday over a former CEO's claims that he was wrongly hit with more than $800,000 in penalties after a civil securities complaint into an alleged Ponzi scheme, weighing whether he was properly dinged for three violations over one enterprise.
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March 24, 2026
Business services company Conduent unlawfully imposes health insurance surcharges on employees who use tobacco products, forcing them to pay more for coverage the company provides, a former employee and plan participant said in a proposed class action in New Jersey federal court.
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March 24, 2026
The ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sought more information about the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.'s plan to provide up to $20 billion in maritime reinsurance in the Persian Gulf region, expressing concern that China could be the proposal's "greatest direct beneficiary."
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March 24, 2026
A defective Stanley Black & Decker Inc. battery pack caused a fire that destroyed a Washington Ace Hardware store, the store owner and its insurer said Tuesday in a suit against the toolmaker in Washington federal court, seeking to recover more than $8.7 million in damages.
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March 24, 2026
The owner of a Manhattan property is an additional insured under its tenant's policy and entitled to a defense in an underlying slip-and-fall suit, a New York federal court ruled Tuesday, saying the tenant's failure to add its current landlord to the policy was clearly a mistake.