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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.
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March 24, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge has released two insurance companies from having to defend a nitrous oxide seller in a personal injury suit after the court found that injuries stemming from the use of psychotropic substances were excluded from coverage.
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March 23, 2026
Insurance provider General Casualty Co. of Wisconsin on Friday challenged client Reed Hein & Associates LLC's $630 million settlement with a class of Reed Hein customers in Washington federal court, saying the figure was crafted by a plaintiffs' expert with no relevant background.
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March 23, 2026
A group of insurers sued by a Berkshire Hathaway-owned construction supplier have asked a Colorado federal judge for an early win in the suit, claiming they have no duty to indemnify the damages in an underlying antitrust suit.
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March 23, 2026
Echoing a recent Fifth Circuit ruling, a Maryland federal judge has held that written consent to receive telemarketing calls is not required under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, reversing a decision to certify a class of consumers against a dental plan marketer.
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March 23, 2026
Truck Insurance Exchange urged a New York federal court to remand its bid to disqualify an arbitrator, who previously served as the insurer's attorney, from an asbestos coverage fight with a group of reinsurers, saying the court lacks subject matter jurisdiction.
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March 23, 2026
Allegations that Progressive Corp. wrongly charged higher health premiums from workers who used tobacco or refused the COVID-19 vaccination failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law, an Ohio federal judge ruled as he tossed a proposed class action against the insurance giant.
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March 23, 2026
Elevance Inc. can't compel arbitration of a union health plan's allegations the insurer caused it to pay excessive administrative fees and medical costs, a Connecticut federal judge ruled, finding the insurer and its subsidiaries waived that right by seeking to dismiss the proposed class action.
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March 23, 2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court has thrown out a couple's suit against a contractor over water and mold damage to their home, finding that a one-year limitation on claims in their work contract applies over the four-year statute of limitations in the state's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act.