A Liberty Mutual unit wrongfully denied an Ohio property owner's claim for coverage for a building that burned down during renovation, the Sixth Circuit ruled, finding the policy's requirement to erect a fence around a construction site unenforceable.
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6th Circ. Says Insurer Owes Coverage For Ohio Building Fire

By Hope Patti

A Liberty Mutual unit wrongfully denied an Ohio property owner's claim for coverage for a building that burned down during renovation, the Sixth Circuit ruled, finding the policy's requirement to erect a fence around a construction site unenforceable.

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Geico Settles Pa. Probe Into AI-Driven Policy Cancellations

By Hope Patti

Pennsylvania's attorney general announced Friday a deal with Geico aimed at strengthening consumer protections by preventing unfair or confusing auto policy cancellations due to the use of artificial intelligence.

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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says

By Emily Sawicki

Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Survey Finds Legal Malpractice Claim Frequency Grew In 2025

By Andrea Keckley

Insurers reported an increase in the frequency of legal malpractice claims for the first time in several years amid concerns over issues like the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey by EPIC Law Firm Group.

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Ex-CEO Imprisoned With Lindberg Urges Lenient Sentence

By Hayley Fowler

A former CEO who was previously incarcerated with embattled insurance mogul Greg Lindberg told a North Carolina federal judge of the billionaire's "humanity" and "generosity" in a character letter to the court ahead of his sentencing on federal wire fraud and bribery charges.

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LITIGATION

Corewell Health Faces Suit Over Alleged 'Fake' Medical Debt

By Melanie Dorsey

Corewell Health and debt collector DCM Services LLC tried to collect millions of dollars in medical bills that plaintiffs said were already paid through insurance and government programs, according to a proposed class action filed in Michigan federal court Friday. 

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Insurer Says It Need Not Defend Auto Dealers In Ill. BIPA Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of Illinois car dealerships are not eligible for insurance coverage in connection with a proposed class action alleging their use of an employee fingerprint scanner violated state privacy law, according to an insurer's complaint in Illinois federal court.

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Construction Co. Says Denver Zoo Owes $250K For Exhibit

By Zach Dupont

A Texas-based company which manufactures complex filtration systems told a Colorado state court that the Denver Zoological Foundation Inc., a contractor and an insurer owe just over $250,000, according to the complaint.

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Aon Hit With $120M Retirement Plan Underperformance Suit

By Lauraann Wood

Aon Corp. was hit Friday with retirement plan mismanagement claims by a group of current and former participants who say fiduciaries' failure to remove underperforming Vanguard funds as investment options has cost their plan more than $120 million in assets.

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USI Says Ex-Producer Took Clients To Rival Brokerage

By Brian Steele

A former producer at the insurance brokerage giant USI has breached his employment agreement by siphoning clients for his own competing company, according to a federal contract suit filed in Connecticut.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Wiley Hit With Proposed Class Action Over Data Breach

By Christine DeRosa

Wiley Rein LLP has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Washington, D.C., firm of negligence after the firm said a group that may be affiliated with the Chinese government accessed emails of firm personnel.

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Quinn Emanuel Sues To Collect $1.5M From Binance's Zhao

By Caroline Simson

Quinn Emanuel has filed suit in Washington, D.C., against former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump last fall, asking the court to enforce an arbitral award of nearly $1.5 million in unpaid attorney fees and other costs.

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Trump Admin Wants Federal Workers To Sign NDAs, Citing Leaks

By Bonnie Eslinger

President Donald Trump's administration ​on Tuesday announced that it wishes to require federal employees with access to sensitive government information to sign a nondisclosure agreement, citing recent leaks related to immigration enforcement operations and the release of personal information belonging to approximately 4,500 Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees.

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3rd Circ. Disapproves Of Judge's Quips In Fatal Crash Case

By Y. Peter Kang

The Third Circuit on Tuesday scolded a Pennsylvania federal judge for his "inappropriate attempted witticisms" while presiding over a lawsuit in which a parent blamed transportation companies for the deaths of his two children in a highway collision, saying the judge's "ill-conceived attempts at levity" in a fatal injury case could be misinterpreted by the public.

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Justices Order Redo In Immigration Judges' Free Speech Suit

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a Fourth Circuit order that had revived the immigration judges union's challenge to restrictions on their ability to speak publicly, finding the lower court abused its discretion by relying on arguments not raised by either party, and ordered further proceedings.

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Brief

Justices To Consider Taking Judge Newman Case On June 11

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether to take up U.S. Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's petition seeking to overturn her suspension from the Federal Circuit on June 11, according to a notice posted Tuesday.

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Comey Case Delayed Due To 'Gravity' Of Charges, Discovery

By Phillip Bantz

A North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday granted former FBI Director James Comey's unopposed request to postpone his arraignment and trial on charges he threatened President Donald Trump with a social media post of seashells, finding that ongoing discovery and the "gravity of the charges" favor an extension and "outweigh" any interests in having a speedy trial.

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Copyright Suits Against Jan. 6 Attys Won't Be Tossed

By Jared Foretek

Attorneys who represented Jan. 6 defendants will have to face a consultant's claims that they copied her jury-attitude report without permission after a D.C. federal judge rejected their arguments that their conduct fell under fair use and the public's right to access court records.

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Pirro, Blanche Fight DQ Bid In Attempted Assassination Case

By Christine DeRosa

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche are fighting a bid from the California man accused of an attempted assassination of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner to disqualify them from handling the case.

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Beasley Allen Fails To Overturn J&J Talc Disqualification

By Adrian Cruz

A New Jersey federal judge affirmed the Beasley Allen Law Firm's disqualification from multidistrict litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder on Tuesday, determining that the firm has failed to provide a valid reason to back its attempt at a stay and temporary reinstatement into the matter.

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DHS Pauses ICE Home Entries Under Administrative Warrants

By Courtney Bublé

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told a Democratic senator earlier this month he's paused immigration agents' use of administrative warrants to enter private property, but has not officially revoked the controversial policy issued last year.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of cross-border corporate control disputes, merger settlements, startup equity fights, advancement claims and board oversight litigation, while also weighing fallout from high-profile deals involving Microsoft Corp., The Boeing Co. and Nikola Corp.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Cohen Milstein's Brent Johnson

By Matthew Perlman

Brent W. Johnson is helping to pioneer the use of antitrust law to tackle collusion in low-wage labor markets with work that includes representing workers from poultry- and meat-processing plants in a pair of cases that led to more than $600 million in settlements last year.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Addleshaw Goddard

Andrus Boudreaux

Arias Sanguinetti

Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Team, LLP

Arnold & Arnold LLP

Ashcraft & Gerel

Barings Law

Barnes & Thornburg

Baron & Budd

Beasley Allen

Bernstein Litowitz

Bevan Brittan

Birketts LLP

Boies Schiller

Brand Woodward

Bruns Connell

Buchanan Firm

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Charles Russell Speechlys

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Placitella

Dardarian Ho

Dentons

Duncan Firm

Eccleston & Wolf

Edmonds Marshall McMahon

Ellis Jones Solicitors

Eversheds Sutherland

FBT Gibbons

Faegre Drinker

Farrell & Fuller

Fieldfisher

First Law Strategy Group

Gupta Wessler

Hagens Berman

Handley Farah

Harrison LLP

Hay & Kilner

Heffner Hurst

Hughes Hubbard

Jason J. Joy & Associates

Jones Day

Kahn Swick

Kaiser PLLC

Katten Muchin

Keller Rohrback

Kellogg Hansen

Keoghs LLP

Kirkland & Ellis

Kutak Rock

Labaton Keller

Laytons LLP

Lieff Cabraser

McClenny Moseley

McKool Smith

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan & Morgan PA

Motley Rice

Nabarro LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Pinsent Masons

Pomerantz LLP

Powell Gilbert

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Geller

Sills Cummis

Spencer West LLP

Stephenson Harwood

Stewarts Law LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Underwood Solicitors LLP

White & Case

Wiggin & Dana

Wiggin LLP

Wiley Rein

Wilson Elser

Wyatt & Blake

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AXA SA

Activision Blizzard Inc.

Agri Stats Inc.

Aldi GmbH & Co. KG

Amazon.com Inc.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Federation of Government Employees

Ames & Gough Insurance Risk Management Inc.

Aon PLC

Balfour Beatty PLC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Cargill Inc.

Clear Blue Insurance Group

Coinbase Global Inc.

Core Specialty Insurance Holdings Inc.

Crum & Forster Holdings Corp.

DCM Services LLC

Diana Shipping Inc.

Fresh Express Inc.

Geico Corp.

Google LLC

Hammerson PLC

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.

Intas Pharmaceuticals Ltd.

Ironshore Inc.

John Lewis Partnership PLC

Johnson & Johnson

Labcorp Holdings Inc.

Latitude 36 Foods LLC

Levi Strauss & Co.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

Los Angeles Times

Lucasfilm Ltd.

Lux Research Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

MetLife Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Monsanto Co.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners

National Westminster Bank PLC

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Nikola Corp.

Ohio Casualty Corp.

PG&E Corp.

POSCO

Pilgrim's Pride Corp.

Pixar Inc.

Rhapsody International Inc.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Singapore Airlines Ltd.

Sinovac Biotech Ltd.

Solicitors Regulation Authority Ltd.

Swiss Reinsurance Co. Ltd.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.

Taylor Fresh Foods Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The New York Times Co.

Thomas H. Lee Partners LP

USI Insurance Services LLC

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Southern California

Vivo Capital

Wells Fargo & Co.

YIT Corp.

Zoox Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Conduct Authority

Pennsylvania Attorney General's Office

Pennsylvania Insurance Department

The Crown Prosecution Service

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of North Carolina

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado