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The Go-To Firms For Insurance Litigation In 2026

By Hope Patti

A Florida-based law firm filed the most insurance coverage actions in the first half of 2026, primarily representing policyholders in property damage disputes, while BigLaw firm Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani was the most frequent choice among insurer defendants.

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Insurance CEO Asks Jurors To Uphold $8M Promise

By George Woolston

The CEO of Cure Auto Insurance asked a New Jersey federal jury Thursday to hold two businessmen to their promise that he would receive 15% of the proceeds if a venture the three men started ever sold.

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Zurich Says Revlon Coverage Fight Belongs In NY State Court

By Hope Patti

A Zurich unit urged a New York bankruptcy court to reject Revlon's bid to enforce its Chapter 11 reorganization plan, saying the company is attempting to repackage a dispute over coverage for thousands of bodily injury claims concerning the cosmetic company's hair straightening products into a dispute over plan provisions.

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Travelers Can't Move Senior Home Coverage Fight To Kansas

By Danielle Ferguson

A Colorado federal judge Thursday refused to transfer a senior living community's insurance coverage dispute to Kansas, finding that Colorado-based policy negotiations, claims communications and witness availability outweighed the less congested docket in Kansas.

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CNA Seeks To Nix Textile Co.'s PFAS Bad Faith Counterclaims

By Danielle Ferguson

CNA units have urged an Ohio federal court to toss counterclaims accusing the insurers of breaching their policies by agreeing to defend a textile company against allegations it released contaminated wastewater and then seeking a declaration that coverage is not owed, saying they have the right to do so under Buckeye State law.

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JB Hunt To Pay $3.2M To End Tobacco Fee Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Trucking company J.B. Hunt will shell out roughly $3.2 million to settle a proposed class action alleging workers who used tobacco were wrongly charged $15 per week more for healthcare, according to the terms of a deal filed in Arkansas federal court.

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Tyson & Mendes Expands To Carolinas With 2 Partner Hires

By Adrian Cruz

Tyson & Mendes LLP announced Thursday that the insurance defense firm will open new offices in North and South Carolina following the hiring of a pair of experienced attorneys as partners from Barnwell Whaley Patterson & Helms LLC.

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Ex-Cravath Staffer Charged With Insider Trading

By Stewart Bishop

A former employee at Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP on Thursday was arrested and charged with insider trading for allegedly exploiting nonpublic information about major deals involving the firm's clients, including Paramount Skydance Corp.'s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

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Posner Remembered For Wide Influence, Pragmatic Approach

By Ryan Boysen

The iconoclastic, prolific and hugely influential U.S. Circuit Court Judge Richard A. Posner is being remembered for a lifetime of relentless advocacy for a more pragmatic approach to the law and a legacy that will ripple through American jurisprudence for decades to come.

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Remembering Richard Posner: A Prolific Jurist

Judge Richard Posner died Tuesday at age 87, leaving a legacy as one of the most influential members of the judiciary who never served on the U.S. Supreme Court. Here, Law360 revisits its coverage over the years of the prolific retired Seventh Circuit judge, including interviews with him about his pragmatic approach to the law, his belief that the courts mistreat pro se litigants and his love of felines.

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Foley Revamps Associate Pay, Advancement Structure

By James Boyle

Foley & Lardner LLP is the latest law firm to alter the way it handles associate compensation and advancement to keep in line with Milbank LLP's update of its own associate pay scale in July.

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Weil's 1,000 Staff Face 'Absorption' Issue In Hunt For Roles

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

As the approximately 1,000 professional staff members at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP look for new roles, they're likely to encounter a more difficult job market than the firm's attorneys, recruiters told Law360 Pulse.

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DOJ Exodus Leaves Trump Facing Confirmation Crunch

By Courtney Bublé

Since the Democrats' sweeping victories on Election Day, there has been an exodus of top officials at the U.S. Department of Justice and prospects for confirming permanent replacement are slim.

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Senate Confirms First Judge Of Lame-Duck Period

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Senate confirmed Alabama Supreme Court Justice Gregory Cook to the Northern District of Alabama on Thursday, marking the first judicial confirmation of the lame-duck period.

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Proskauer Won't Rep Perplexity In Reddit Data-Scraping Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Perplexity AI Inc. has abandoned its effort to have Proskauer Rose LLP defend against a data-scraping lawsuit from Reddit Inc. after Reddit raised concerns about the law firm's past representation of the social media company.

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Arbitration Assoc. Wants Consumers' Monopoly Suit Tossed

By Rae Ann Varona

The American Arbitration Association urged an Arizona federal court Thursday to toss a proposed class action that accuses the organization of monopolizing the consumer arbitration services market, saying the plaintiff consumers are trying to hold it liable for contracts it never entered into.

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