A real estate company's insurer owes no coverage for a $3.4 million settlement resolving an employee's claim that it negligently failed to preserve video evidence of his fall into a sewer pit, an Illinois federal court ruled, rejecting the company's argument that the insurer prejudiced it while providing a defense.
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TOP NEWS

Insurer Freed From Covering $3.4M Lost Evidence Settlement

By Ganesh Setty

A real estate company's insurer owes no coverage for a $3.4 million settlement resolving an employee's claim that it negligently failed to preserve video evidence of his fall into a sewer pit, an Illinois federal court ruled, rejecting the company's argument that the insurer prejudiced it while providing a defense.

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Wash. Justices To Review Cafe Fire Insurance Dispute

By Ganesh Setty

The Washington Supreme Court will review a state appeals court's decision finding that a Liberty Mutual unit owes no coverage over a restaurant kitchen fire because of the building owners' failure to fully comply with protective safeguard requirements in their policy.

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Insurer Escapes Gas Station Row Over Shooting By Employee

By Abraham Gross

A gas company's insurer owed no coverage for a suit brought by a customer who was attacked and shot by an employee, an Indiana federal court ruled, saying the suit was not an occurrence under the policy.

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Insurer Aims To Recoup Costs In Amazon Battery Fire Case

By Eli Flesch

Penn National Insurance is aiming to recoup costs from Amazon over a North Carolina house fire blamed on a defective, rechargeable vacuum battery the retail giant sold, according to a complaint removed to federal court Thursday from state court.  

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LITIGATION

Bojangles Not Covered In NC Sex Abuse Suit, Insurer Says

By Hayley Fowler

Fried chicken fast-food chain Bojangles and one of its largest franchisees are not entitled to defense coverage in an underlying civil suit alleging a restaurant manager sexually groomed and abused two minor employees in North Carolina, their insurance company said Friday.

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Insurers Say La. Mall Owner Is Trying To Derail Arbitration

By Joyce Hanson

A group of insurers led by Lloyd's of London underwriters has urged a New York federal court to appoint an umpire in an arbitration proceeding over coverage for a Louisiana mall damaged in a 2021 hurricane, accusing the mall owner of trying to derail the arbitration.

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Roundup

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

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen Big Technologies file fresh claims against its ousted chief executive, West Ham United FC sue Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance for breach of duty, and RSM UK face a new claim over a company's administration. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Notable Q3 Updates In Insurance Class Actions

The third quarter of 2025 was another eventful quarter for total loss valuation class actions, with a new circuit split developing courtesy of the Sixth Circuit, while insurers continued to see negative results in cost-of-insurance class actions, says Kevin Zimmerman at BakerHostetler.

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Why Appellees Should Write Their Answering Brief First

Though counterintuitive, appellees should consider writing their answering briefs before they’ve ever seen their opponent’s opening brief, as this practice confers numerous benefits related to argument structure, time pressures and workflow, says Joshua Sohn at the U.S. Department of Justice.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 76 Firms

The attorneys chosen as Law360's 2025 MVPs have distinguished themselves from their peers by securing significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-breaking deals.

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Senate Committee To Investigate Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing next week to consider impeachment of "rogue" federal judges, according to an announcement on Monday.

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Ex-Mass. Judge Joins Todd & Weld After Fiery Resignation

By Emily Sawicki and Chris Villani

A Massachusetts federal judge said Tuesday he would join Boston boutique litigation firm Todd & Weld LLP after resigning from the bench and penning a public letter saying that he could no longer "bear to be restrained" from speaking out against the Trump administration.

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Shutdown Deal Funds Justices' Security, Public Defender Pay

By Courtney Bublé

The government funding agreement reached in the Senate on Sunday includes funding for public defenders, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

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Judge To Review Grand Jury Materials In Comey Indictment

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge said he would review grand jury materials in camera to see if any privileged information was used to secure the indictment of ex-FBI Director James Comey on charges of lying to Congress.

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Ex-Judges, US Attys Urge Axing 'Political' Indictment Of NY AG

By Lauren Berg

A bipartisan group of former federal judges and U.S. attorneys on Monday threw their weight behind New York Attorney General Letitia James' bid to dismiss the indictment accusing her of mortgage fraud, rebuking the appointment of interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and slamming the prosecution's apparent political motivations.

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Fitch Even, Ex-Client Settle $1.2M Fee Fight

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge suspended all briefing deadlines Monday in Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery LLP's $1.2 million fee dispute with a former client and a litigation funder's CEO, following the parties' signal that they've resolved their legal issues in principle.

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Trump Pardons Giuliani, Others Accused Of Election Crimes

By Emily Sawicki

President Donald Trump has reportedly pardoned scores of lawyers accused of attempting to interfere in the 2020 election, including Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman and Sidney Powell, according to a social media post created by the president's pardon attorney, Ed Martin.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's top court issued a flurry of rulings last week and heard arguments on recently passed legislation that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts while the Court of Chancery passed on another round of arguments over control of Caribbean broadcaster Caribevision.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Baker & Hostetler

Bass Berry

Baughman Kroup

Beins Axelrod

Bernstein Litowitz

Bivonas Law LLP

Blank Rome

Bradley Arant

Butler Snow LLP

CMS Cameron McKenna

Cadwalader Wickersham

Cahill Gordon

Carmichael Ellis

Clarion Solicitors

Clifford Chance

Clyde & Co

Cohen Milstein

Cohen Ziffer

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Cravath Swaine

Crowell & Moring

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Dechert LLP

Desmarais LLP

Drewry Simmons

Duane Morris

Edwin Coe

Esbrook PC

Eversheds Sutherland

Fitch Even

Foley & Abbott

Foley & Lardner

Forsberg & Umlauf

Freshfields

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Guenin Law Office

Gupta Wessler

HSF Kramer

Hagens Berman

Hill Dickinson

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hueston Hennigan

Hunton Andrews

Irell & Manella

Irwin Mitchell

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Joseph Saveri Law Firm

Keker Van Nest & Peters

Kelley Drye

Kellogg Hansen

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

King & Wood Mallesons

Kirkland & Ellis

Kreindler & Kreindler

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lowell & Associates

Mayer Brown

McGuireWoods

Milbank LLP

Mishcon de Reya

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Mound Cotton

Nabarro LLP

Nexa Law

Nichols Law LLP

Nossaman LLP

O'Melveny & Myers

Osborne Clarke

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pillsbury Winthrop

Pinsent Masons

Pope Aylward

Poyner Spruill

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Reese Marketos

Ropes & Gray

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Singleton Schreiber

Skadden Arps

Spencer West LLP

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

TLT LLP

Todd & Weld

Traub Lieberman

Wachtell Lipton

Wathen Leid

Watson LLP

Waymaker LLP

Weil Gotshal

Wigdor LLP

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

Winckworth Sherwood

Winston & Strawn

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AXA XL Ltd.

Allianz SE

Amazon.com Inc.

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Coinbase Global Inc.

Columbus Life Insurance Co.

Drummond

Federalist Society

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGAA

Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co.

HDI Global Specialty SE

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lexington Insurance Co.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

LinkedIn Corp.

Lloyd's America Inc.

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

MMG Ltd.

Novo Nordisk A S

Penn National Insurance

Pfizer Inc.

QBE Insurance Group Ltd.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Stanford University

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

The Carlyle Group Inc.

The Intergroup Corporation

Walmart Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Congressional Research Service

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Indiana Supreme Court

National Crime Agency

New York Attorney General's Office

Ofgem

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Supreme Court of the State of Washington

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Secret Service

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana

United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio