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November 04, 2026
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A farm general partnership seeks confirmation of an arbitration award in Kentucky federal court after a crop insurer and agent failed to pay more than $1.6 million in indemnity and accrued interest stemming from the mishandling of the partnership’s request for an actuarial change, which left it without coverage when its canola crop sustained weather-related damage.
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November 04, 2026
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Walmart Inc. challenged primary and excess insurers’ petitions seeking rehearing of an Arkansas appellate court’s ruling that affirmed partial summary judgment in its favor in its lawsuit seeking a declaration that the insurers have a duty to defend thousands of underlying actions alleging that it contributed to the opioid crisis by selling and dispensing opioid medications, arguing that the appeals court correctly held that the gravamen of the opioid litigation is not based on its intentional malfeasance but on its failure to put proper controls in place to find and report opioid orders that were suspicious.
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November 04, 2026
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A lawyers professional liability insurer filed a reply brief in support of its motion for voluntary dismissal without prejudice of its declaratory judgment lawsuit disputing coverage for an underlying legal malpractice claim brought against its attorney insured, asserting that none of the insured’s “wild or unsubstantiated theories” in his response in opposition justifies a denial of its motion.
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November 04, 2026
ATLANTA — An insurer filed a brief in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals consenting to a couple’s request that their appeal should be restored to active status after the 11th Circuit granted a limited motion to remand to amend a judgment in favor of the insurer in a suit alleging that the couple fraudulently received benefits under their long-term care (LTC) insurance policies.
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November 04, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Owners of a Dutch insurer in liquidation urged a North Carolina federal court to seal certain specified exhibits in a case on remand from the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, which reversed the confirmation of an arbitral award in favor of the insurer and remanded for further proceedings on a motion to enforce the Dutch judgment under North Carolina law.
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November 04, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in John R. Sand & Gravel Co. v. United States was “wrong when it issued and even more clearly wrong today,” group health plans whose claims challenging exactions under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Transitional Reinsurance Program (TRP) were dismissed as untimely by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (CFC) and whose dismissals were affirmed by the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals request the high court in a petition for a writ of certiorari to overrule the precedent holding that the Tucker Act’s six-year statute of limitations is jurisdictional and not subject to equitable tolling.
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November 03, 2026
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — A medical practice, its physician-owner and affiliated entities filed their answer and defenses to a third amended complaint in a False Claims Act (FCA) suit filed by the government against them, denying allegations that they engaged in Medicare fraud by billing for false claims related to visits with nursing home and assisted living facility residents.
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November 03, 2026
EL PASO, Texas — Following a Texas federal judge’s order striking a commercial general liability insurer’s amended motion for summary judgment in a carbon monoxide poisoning coverage suit, the insurer filed a motion for leave to file an amended motion for summary judgment, arguing that the court should allow the amended motion because it corrects only an attachment error and would not cause prejudice to the insureds or underlying plaintiff.
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November 03, 2026
LANSING, Mich. — Insurers involved in a coverage dispute stemming from lead-contaminated water supplied by an insured city in their reply in support of a motion for partial summary judgment continue to deny that they have a duty to defend or indemnify their insured for a $25 million consent settlement reached by the city and underlying plaintiffs, maintaining that the policies’ lead and pollution exclusions apply as a bar to coverage.
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November 03, 2026
SEATTLE — An insured maintains that its motion for partial summary judgment in an environmental contamination coverage dispute pending in Washington federal court should be granted because the insurer does not dispute that the underlying suit for which the insured seeks coverage is “conceivably covered” under the excess policy.
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November 02, 2026
SEATTLE — One day after an insurer filed a notice to dismiss its lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify its insured in an underlying negligence and wrongful death lawsuit arising from the implosion of the commercial submersible Titan on June 18, 2023, that killed five people, a Washington federal judge dismissed the action without prejudice.
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October 30, 2026
NEW YORK — Two pension funds filed a securities class action against a Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance company and four executives in New York federal court, alleging that they misled investors about the adequacy of the company’s casualty loss reserves, concealed risks associated with its underwriting practices and overstated earnings, resulting in investor and shareholder losses.
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October 30, 2026
MIAMI — A homeowner insured by a now-insolvent insurer filed a notice of appeal in a Florida state appellate court, appealing a lower court’s order transferring venue from the Miami-Dade County 11th Judicial Circuit Court to the Broward County 17th Judicial Circuit Court in a breach of contract dispute with the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA).
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October 29, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A tax consulting firm challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s final microcaptive insurance disclosure rule urged the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an Oct. 28 appellant’s brief to reverse a Texas federal judge’s ruling upholding the rule’s transaction-of-interest designation, arguing that the agency failed to support its determination that microcaptive arrangements have a potential for tax avoidance with sufficient facts or data and exceeded its statutory authority under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
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October 29, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The IRS and Treasury Department urged the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to uphold reporting requirements for certain microcaptive insurance arrangements and reinstate a stricter designation vacated by a Texas federal judge, arguing that the agency reasonably identified characteristics associated with tax avoidance and was not required to prove that most covered transactions were abusive.
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October 28, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. — After a Florida federal judge granted a motion to amend a $1,930,129 judgment as applied to one defendant in favor of Prudential Insurance Company of America to clarify that a couple is jointly and severally liable in a suit alleging that they fraudulently received benefits under their long-term care (LTC) insurance policies, the couple filed an amended notice appealing that judgment.
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October 28, 2026
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Primary and excess insurers petitioned for an Arkansas appellate court to rehear its ruling affirming partial summary judgment in favor of Walmart Inc. in its lawsuit seeking a declaration that the insurers have a duty to defend thousands of underlying actions alleging that it contributed to the opioid crisis by selling and dispensing opioid medications.
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October 27, 2026
NEW YORK — An insured on Oct. 26 filed a notice appealing a New York federal judge’s ruling that granted insurers’ motion for partial summary judgment in a declaratory judgment lawsuit disputing coverage for underlying claims that the insured violated federal, state and local laws when it deliberately sold and shipped ghost gun parts and kits to New York.
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October 27, 2026
SEATTLE — An insured’s motion for partial summary judgment in an environmental contamination coverage dispute should be denied because the insured is attempting to avoid the preclusive effect of a 2016 order issued by a state court in a similar suit involving many of the same parties and finding that the excess insurer does not have a duty to defend, the excess insurer tells a Washington federal court in its response to the insured’s motion.
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October 27, 2026
PITTSBURGH — An insured filed suit in Pennsylvania state court against a number of its excess insurers, seeking a declaration that the insurers owe more than $42 million for investigation and remediation costs incurred by the insured for releases of contaminants from one of its former steel facilities.
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October 23, 2026
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — An apartment owner insured and the apartment’s property manager filed notices indicating they are appealing a Florida federal judge’s summary judgment ruling that a commercial excess liability insurance policy’s fire exclusion relieves the insurer of its duty to defend against an underlying negligence lawsuit, as well as its duty to indemnify a $17 million jury verdict reached in the underlying action.
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October 22, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a petition for a writ of certiorari pertaining to the arbitrability under Louisiana law of a claim made by the owner of a hotel in Louisiana for hurricane damages and bad faith against its domestic insurer after the parties filed a joint stipulation informing the court that the matter was “resolved by the parties,” leaving two other petitions for certiorari on the same topic pending.
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October 22, 2026
SAN ANTONIO — A contractor is seeking panel rehearing and en banc reconsideration of a Texas appellate panel’s conditional grant of mandamus relief to its subcontractor’s insurer, arguing that the panel wrongly applied the no-direct-action rule because its allegations present a direct coverage dispute between the insurer and the contractor as an additional insured.
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October 22, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A builder filed a motion for leave to file supplemental briefing in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, arguing that a lower court judge’s supplemental memorandum providing further explanation regarding why he granted summary judgment in favor of the insurer in the builder’s suit seeking indemnification for an arbitration award for damages caused by defects in a home built by the builder brought up an issue not previously briefed — whether, as the judge put it, the arbitration proceeding was an “occurrence.”
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October 22, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Directors and officers liability insurers argue that the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should reverse a lower court’s denial of their request for prejudgment interest after it previously ruled in their favor in their lawsuit challenging coverage for underlying securities investigations, shareholder demand letters and a securities class action against Under Armour Inc., arguing that they are entitled to prejudgment interest as a matter of right pursuant to Maryland law.