NY Judge Halts Excess Coverage Denial For 'Mutual Mistake'

By Abraham Gross

A New York federal judge undid an excess insurer's denial of coverage for a plumbing company facing lawsuits over a building fire, saying that both parties agreed to the policy under a "mutual mistake" over the scope of coverage.

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AmTrust Says Robbins Geller Is Causing Investor Suit Delays

By Sydney Price

Insurance company AmTrust accused Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP on Monday of being "asleep at the wheel" and causing discovery failures in an investor suit in New York federal court accusing the insurer of making financial misrepresentations related to its IPO, which AmTrust argues makes the firm inadequate for lead counsel appointment.

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Patients Say Pa. Med Mal Firm Left Data Vulnerable To Hackers

By Dan McKay

A Pittsburgh law firm that handles medical malpractice and insurance litigation faces a proposed class action complaint alleging that it failed to protect the private health and personal data of patients whose information was stolen in a data breach.

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Insurers Ask 5th Circ. To Revisit Hurricane Arbitration Case

By Caroline Simson

A group of insurers pressed the Fifth Circuit on Monday to reconsider its decision nixing an arbitration order for a southern Louisiana town in a dispute over hurricane damage coverage, saying the opinion wrongly analyzes whether nonsignatories can enforce an international arbitration agreement.

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Notable Pennsylvania Cases Of 2025

By P.J. D'Annunzio

Several closely watched cases in Pennsylvania came to a close in 2025, ending in sentencings for the founders of the $404 million Par Funding merchant cash-advance investment scheme, the final designation for the mysterious death of a Philadelphia teacher, and a U.S. Supreme Court rebuff in a battle over the state's $300 million medical malpractice insurance surplus.

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Top North Carolina Cases Of 2025

By Hayley Fowler

A sweep of settlements in major lawsuits punctuated the second half of the year in North Carolina, from a record-breaking wrongful death deal to an eleventh-hour resolution in a lending fight over a biogas development project. Here are some of the top North Carolina case outcomes in the second half of 2025.

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Blue Cross Seeks McDonald Hopkins' Fraud Warning Docs

By Jack Karp

Advice that McDonald Hopkins LLC gave a Florida hospital manager about potential exposure to criminal prosecution for healthcare fraud is neither privileged nor work product, and so should be handed over to a Blue Cross health insurer being sued for malicious prosecution in Georgia federal court, the insurer said.

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Insurer Says It Isn't Liable For $850K Repair At Denver Airport

By Eli Flesch

The insurer to a Colorado construction company told a federal court Monday that it shouldn't be liable for $850,000 in replacement electrical work at Denver International Airport because the insured construction company was aware of a design error.

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Funeral Home Says Insurer's Fire Coverage Suit Is Premature

By Hope Patti

An insurer's suit seeking to avoid covering a tree company accused of causing a fire that resulted in $2 million in damage to a funeral home's property is premature and should be tossed, the funeral home told a Florida federal court.

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Co. Owes $3M For Factory Blast, Insurers Say

By Jennifer Mandato

An explosion prevention system provider owes over $3 million in damages related to an explosion and subsequent fire at a Kentucky manufacturing facility, the facility's insurers alleged, maintaining that the provider was negligent in the design and maintenance of the facility's system.

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3 Key Trends For The Legal Industry In 2025

By Tracey Read

Executive orders, updated office attendance policies and private equity interests were three top issues that shaped the industry this year.

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ITC Atty's 1st Kids' Book Imagines A Santa-Less Christmas

By Dani Kass

Michelle Klancnik, assistant general counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, spends her days looking into when imports should be banned for violating intellectual property rights, but outside work, she​'s focused on one big question: What would happen if Santa took a year off?

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Ex-Oura CEO Pushes To DQ Quinn Emanuel In Firing Suit

By Emily Sawicki

The onetime CEO of fitness tracker company Oura Health is pushing to disqualify Quinn Emanuel from representing the smart ring maker in his compensation suit, telling a San Francisco federal judge that he shared confidential information when he consulted with the firm about his claims prior to filing suit.

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NYC Bar Issues Opinion On AI Use For Recording Client Calls

By Tracey Read

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Ethics Committee has issued an opinion addressing how the New York Rules of Professional Conduct impacts the use of artificial intelligence tools to record, transcribe and create summaries of conversations in audio and video calls between attorneys and their clients.

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Ex-DOJ Employees Fight Gov't Bid To Toss Their Firing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

An ex-assistant U.S. attorney and two other former Justice Department employees urged a Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday to deny the government's motion to dismiss their lawsuit claiming they were unlawfully fired, arguing an internal government employment board isn't appropriate for their cases and is controlled by President Donald Trump.

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Top Delaware Chancery Cases Of 2025: A Year-End Report

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court closed out 2025 amid a period of institutional uncertainty, as landmark cases addressing fiduciary duty, executive compensation, board oversight and the limits of equitable power unfolded against the backdrop of sweeping legislative changes to the Delaware General Corporation Law.

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Hub Hires: Cooley, Morgan Lewis, Nixon Peabody

By Chris Villani

The end of the year marked the beginning of new chapters for plenty of Boston attorneys, as Cooley added more than 30 professionals to its life sciences team, Morgan Lewis snagged an intellectual property partner, and Nixon Peabody beefed up its cybersecurity practice.

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