5th Circ. Hints Coverage Turns On Crash Suits, Not Policies

By José Luis Martínez

A Fifth Circuit judge on Tuesday zeroed in on the allegations in more than two dozen lawsuits stemming from a 130-vehicle pileup in Fort Worth as the court weighed whether an insurer has a duty to defend a trio of contractors who expanded the toll road where the fatal crashes occurred.

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Ex-Morgan Stanley Adviser Guilty Of Defrauding NBA Clients

By Stewart Bishop

A Manhattan federal jury on Tuesday convicted a former Morgan Stanley investment adviser on fraud charges, for allegedly defrauding NBA player clients by overcharging them for life insurance investments and misappropriating funds.

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Wash. Panel Reverses $11M Tax Award To Insurance Co.

By Maria Koklanaris

A Washington state appeals panel handed a win to Washington's Department of Revenue on Tuesday, reversing a lower court's order that the department owed a $10.9 million tax refund to a title insurance and settlement services company.

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Travelers Can't Exit $6M Construction Defect Coverage Suit

By Hope Patti

A construction manager's suit seeking coverage for a $6 million construction defect dispute may proceed after a New York federal court found there were fact issues concerning the company's status as an additional insured under a subcontractor's primary and excess policies with Travelers.

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False Positive Blocks $50M COVID Coverage Bid, Court Told

By Hope Patti

An insurer said an auto parts manufacturer can't get $50 million in coverage for COVID-19 losses, telling a North Carolina federal court the company concealed that an employee's positive test result was false since it was the only evidence that the virus was present at one of the manufacturer's facilities.

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Ex-FDA Leaders Rebut Contraception Rollbacks At 3rd Circ.

By Hannah Albarazi

Former FDA commissioners argued that Trump-era religious exemptions for birth control coverage jeopardize public health and distort medical science, in an animus brief filed Monday with the Third Circuit.

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Cannabis Depository Can Fight $9.5M Coverage Denial

By Mark Payne

A New Jersey cannabis dispensary depository can challenge an insurer's bid to deny coverage for a $9.5 million judgment against an armored car cash delivery service for an ex-employee's alleged embezzlement, a New York federal judge ruled, saying the depository is entitled to a potential insurance policy payout. 

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Insurer, Fla. Condo Owners Settle Hurricane Coverage Dispute

By Isaac Monterose

Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Co. and multiple Florida homeowners associations have ended their dispute in Florida federal court over the associations' more than $230 million insurance claim for Pensacola Beach condominiums damaged by Hurricane Sally.

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Terminix Wins Coverage For $8M Pesticide Exposure Award

By Hope Patti

An excess insurer must cover part of an $8 million judgment entered against Terminix in a pesticide exposure suit, the Ninth Circuit said Tuesday, affirming that the underlying injury arose out of Terminix's product for the purposes of the policy's "products-completed operations hazard" coverage.

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Aligning Microsoft Tools With NYC Bar AI Recording Guidance

The New York City Bar Association’s recently issued formal opinion, providing ethical guidance on artificial intelligence-assisted recording, transcription and summarization, raises immediate questions about data governance and e-discovery for companies that use Microsoft 365 and Copilot, say Staci Kaliner, Martin Tully and John Collins at Redgrave.

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DOJ Nixes Plan To Drop Law Firm EO Appeals In About-Face

By Emma Cueto

A day after informing the D.C. Circuit that it would no longer seek to defend the executive orders issued by President Donald Trump against four law firms, the U.S. Department of Justice reversed course Tuesday, requesting permission to withdraw its motion to voluntarily dismiss the appeals.

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Goldman's Departing CLO, Gates Asked To Testify On Epstein

By Lauren Berg

The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday asked outgoing Goldman Sachs Chief Legal Officer Kathryn Ruemmler, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Apollo Global Management co-founder Leon Black and others to testify about their connections to child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Early Publicity Could Poison DOJ's Criminal Cases, Attys Say

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice under President Donald Trump has shrugged off long-standing prosecutorial policies against publicizing criminal probes in their early stages and disparaging the targets, an "unusual" and "troubling" development that threatens the integrity of investigations, grand jury proceedings and the right to a fair trial, experts tell Law360.

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Skadden Hit With Sanctions Over 'Vexatious' Gaming Suit

By Ivan Moreno

A Manhattan federal judge has sanctioned Papaya Gaming and its attorneys from Skadden for what the court said was a "blatant" attempt to relitigate claims in Virginia that had already been dismissed in a false advertising dispute in New York with Skillz Platform, one of its competitors.

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NY Judicial Watchdog Says Complaints Break Record Again

By Andrea Keckley

New York's judicial watchdog has reported a record number of new complaints filed against judges for the fourth year in a row in 2025.

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Day Pitney Faces DQ Bid Over Ex-Justice's Role In $1.3M Case

By Aaron Keller

Day Pitney LLP should be sidelined from a $1.3 million private equity management company's windup lawsuit because former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Richard A. Robinson, now a partner at the firm, heard the case before it was earmarked for a new trial, three company owners have argued.

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New Whistleblower Program Adds 'Bit More Stick,' DOJ Says

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division's new whistleblower rewards program partnership with the U.S. Postal Service doesn't displace the leniency program by which companies disclose potential price-fixing and other antitrust violations, a DOJ official said Tuesday in Washington, D.C., but it is an important complement.

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DOJ Turns To 2nd Circ. In Bid To Revive James Subpoenas

By Emily Sawicki

The U.S. Department of Justice is urging the Second Circuit to revive an investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James launched by a federal prosecutor later found to have been serving unlawfully, arguing the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York had been rightfully appointed when he launched the probe.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice got its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster teed up for trial, as a court continues mulling the department's settlement last year in a case challenging a deal by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and lawmakers call for scrutiny of Paramount Skydance's blockbuster acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Meta Atty's Slip Reveals Social Media Trial Plaintiff's Identity

By Craig Clough

An attorney for Meta Platforms on Tuesday revealed the highly guarded full name of the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether trial accusing its Instagram platform and Google's YouTube of harming children's mental health, prompting the Los Angeles judge overseeing the case to strike it from the record and order everyone in the courtroom not to reveal it.

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