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July 21, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A professional liability insurer filed suit in a North Carolina federal court, seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a law firm insured and its attorney against underlying allegations that they misappropriated client funds.
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July 20, 2026
INDIANAPOLIS — An Indiana appeals panel reversed a lower court’s grant of a commercial general liability insurer and claims administrator’s motion for judgment on the pleadings in a coverage dispute arising from an alleged injury at the insured’s 4-H Fair, concluding that it cannot determine on the pleadings that the defendants have no duty to defend or indemnify.
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July 20, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Answering a certified question from an appeals court, the Florida Supreme Court determined that the appeals court erred in its interpretation of Florida Statutes Section 768.72(1) when it refused to allow petitioners to amend their counterclaims to seek punitive damages against a neighbor, his insurer and the insurer’s counsel in a lawsuit arising from “hate mail” letters.
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July 17, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A group of domestic insurers filed the third petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling affirming the denial of a motion to compel arbitration of a dispute over damage from a Louisiana hurricane under a state law barring arbitration of such disputes, asking the court to find that the Fifth Circuit applied the wrong law to their equitable estoppel argument under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention).
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July 17, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida denied a liquor liability insurer’s motion for summary judgment as to its duty to defend its insured against an underlying negligent security lawsuit arising from an altercation at the insured’s establishment, holding that a “fair reading” of the underlying complaint would lead to the conclusion that the alleged attack occurred because of the purported assailant’s intoxication and that alcohol was furnished to him at the insured’s bar.
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July 16, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appeals panel on July 15 affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a commercial building owner was an additional insured under an insurance policy that was issued to the lessee of the building and that the insurer had a duty to defend and indemnify the building owner against underlying claims arising from an elevator shaft injury, rejecting the insurer’s argument that the policy’s workers’ compensation and employers’ liability exclusions barred coverage.
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July 16, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York denied a motion by Justin Baldoni, a movie studio and its officers to dismiss or stay their management liability insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to provide coverage for a sexual harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation lawsuit that was brought by Blake Lively, rejecting the insureds’ argument that it is “sufficiently more efficient” for the insurer to join a related lawsuit they filed in a California state court against three of their other insurers.
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July 15, 2026
BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland closed directors and officers liability insurers’ lawsuit seeking a declaration that they owe no coverage to Under Armour Inc. for underlying investigations by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice, shareholder demand letters and a securities class action after the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals concluded that the insured’s public financial forecasts and accounting practices are a single claim not subject to the additional $90 million in coverage under the 2017–2018 insurance policies.
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July 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York granted motions by plaintiffs in a multidistrict litigation that arose out of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and spanned more than 20 years to enforce default judgments against Iran by pursuing execution and attachment of two digital wallets that contained approximately $344 million of Tether cryptocurrency tokens that were allegedly owned by the Central Bank of Iran.
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July 06, 2026
LAS VEGAS — A commercial crime insurer filed suit in a Nevada federal court seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to indemnify an insured for its alleged $106,184,673 loss arising from a commission scheme by two of its former directors and officers involving the sale of COVID-19 test kits, further asserting that it may rescind the insurance policy based on the insured’s misrepresentation of a material fact regarding its knowledge of the scheme in the policy application.
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July 02, 2026
CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 1 affirmed a lower federal court’s ruling in favor of The J.M. Smucker Co. in its breach of contract and declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking coverage for bodily injuries resulting from the alleged bacterial contamination of Smucker’s Jif-brand peanut butter, holding that the alleged salmonella outbreak is the lone occurrence and the policy’s Lot Endorsement does not convert one occurrence into many.
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July 01, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — One day after the parties announced that they have reached a settlement in principle, a federal judge in New Jersey administratively closed insureds’ breach of contract and declaratory judgment lawsuit seeking directors and officers liability coverage for an underlying action alleging they owe $435,378.93 under a credit card processing services agreement.
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July 01, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois appeals panel held that a lower court did not err in ruling that a commercial liability insurer has a duty to defend its bar insured against an underlying negligence lawsuit, concluding that the underlying claims potentially fall within coverage and the insurer did not establish that the policy’s designated-premises endorsement or employment related practices exclusion clearly precluded coverage.
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July 01, 2026
NEWNAN, Ga. — A professional liability insurer filed suit in a federal court in Georgia seeking a declaratory judgment that it owes no coverage for an underlying legal malpractice lawsuit brought against its law firm and attorney insureds.
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July 01, 2026
CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s dismissal of a breach of contract and declaratory judgment lawsuit brought by the assignee of health provider insured, agreeing with the lower court that two insurance policies’ plain language unambiguously bars coverage for an underlying legal malpractice lawsuit.
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July 01, 2026
KEY WEST, Fla. — After a two-day bench trial, a Florida federal judge dismissed a yacht owner’s breach of contract claim against his insurer and entered final judgment for the insurer in the owner’s suit over the insurer’s alleged failure to compensate him for the loss of his yacht after it struck a coral reef and later sank, finding in part that the owner’s false statements to his insurer about the operation of the vessel violated the policy’s false-statement warranty.
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July 01, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware judge granted primary and excess insurers’ motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit filed against them seeking directors and officers liability coverage for an underlying $48.5 million settlement with shareholders of Madison Square Garden Networks Inc. (MSGN) following a merger between MSGN and Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp. (MSGE), holding that the insurers satisfied the burden of demonstrating that the policies’ Bump-Up Clause bars coverage.
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June 30, 2026
PITTSBURGH — An insurer filed suit in a Pennsylvania federal court, seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend or indemnify Red Bull North America Inc. (RBNA) against an underlying lawsuit alleging damages caused by bodily injury during a promotional “media flight” for RBNA’s “Flugtag” event, disputing RBNA’s claim that it is owed coverage as an additional insured.
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June 30, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appellate court affirmed a lower court’s finding that a commercial general liability insurer has a duty to indemnify its insured for $1 million of a $2,452,860 default judgment entered in an underlying negligence lawsuit arising from a fatal injury, rejecting the insurer’s argument that coverage was barred because the decedent was acting as an employee of the insured at the time of the incident.
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June 29, 2026
ATLANTA— An insured and its insurer told a federal court in Georgia that they have reached a settlement in principle of the insured’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit seeking cyber defense coverage for putative class actions brought as a result of a 2024 data breach.
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June 29, 2026
CONCORD, N.H. — The owner and operator of a former minor league baseball team and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues Inc.’s insurer settled their directors and officers liability coverage dispute alleging that the insurer failed to pay a $5.55 million judgment awarded against its insured in an underlying breach of fiduciary lawsuit.
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June 26, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower federal court’s denial of a plaintiff’s request for class certification in his lawsuit seeking to hold an insurer liable under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act but reversed the court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the plaintiff, holding that he failed to demonstrate that the insurer is vicariously liable for a telemarketer’s calls under any theory of agency law.
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June 25, 2026
HARTFORD, Conn.— The Connecticut Supreme Court declined an invitation to review an appeals court’s reversal of a lower court ruling that intentional conduct and sexual misconduct exclusions in a professional liability insurance policy applied to every allegation in an underlying civil negligence lawsuit brought against a reproductive endocrinologist insured.
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June 25, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del.— A retired judge, in her capacity as trustee of the Boy Scouts of America Settlement Trust, moved for the federal bankruptcy court in Delaware to enforce its third modified, fifth amended Chapter 11 reorganization plan contemplating the creation of a settlement trust to “assume liability for all Abuse Claims” that includes $1.6 billion in insurance settlement payments, as well as its order confirming the reorganization plan.
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June 24, 2026
NEW YORK — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals determined that undisputed facts defeat a landlord insurer’s argument that a lessee’s insurance policy intended to name the landlord as an additional insured and named the insured’s manager only in error, affirming a lower federal court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the lessee’s insurer in the landlord insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that the lessee insurer has a duty to defend and indemnify the landlord in an underlying trip-and-fall lawsuit.