Liberty Mutual Gets $103M Age Bias Verdict Cut To $20M

By Patrick Hoff

A California judge slashed a $103 million jury verdict in favor of a former Liberty Mutual employee who said she was treated poorly and fired because of her age, concluding that the severity of the harassment she alleged did not warrant $83 million in punitive damages.

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Insurer Needn't Cover Pre-Policy Losses, 8th Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

A quadriplegic woman is not entitled to benefits under a long-term care policy, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, saying the policy expressly states that it does not cover the loss of ability to perform daily living activities that existed before it went into effect.

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Ga. Panel Revives Broker Negligence Suit Over $1M Deal

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia appellate panel revived a suit Tuesday brought by a shooting victim's widow against the insurance broker for the store where he was killed, reversing a trial court's ruling that the store couldn't assign its claims against the broker after a $1 million judgment.

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7th Circ. Urged To Revive Hartford $4M Wire Fraud Fight

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois agency that administers financially distressed insurers' estates Tuesday urged the Seventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for a cyberattack during which its financial chief provided confidential login information to hackers, who used his email account to instruct employees to wire them nearly $7 million.

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New Precedent Revives $6.6M IRS Penalty Fight, Broker Says

By Kat Lucero

An insurance broker asked a Pennsylvania federal court to consider new constitutionality arguments against the IRS penalty prepayment requirement to revive its challenge to $6.6 million in captive insurance tax penalties, arguing those claims rely on new legal precedent.

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Insurer Says No Coverage Above $1M For Injured Biker Row

By Danielle Ferguson

The insurer for an auto repossession company and one of its drivers told a Georgia federal court that it does not owe more than its $1 million limit in a case involving the driver hitting a child on a bike, saying the settlement demand from the child's family did not obligate the insurer to resolve the dispute.

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Under Armour Says Insurers Shouldn't Get Repayment Interest

By Hope Patti

Under Armour told a Maryland federal court that the insurers it reimbursed after the Fourth Circuit capped its coverage for a securities class action, government investigations and derivative matters at $100 million are not entitled to millions of dollars in prejudgment interest.

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Legal Risks Rise As Construction-Site Drone Use Soars

Construction companies using drones face mounting legal risks as Federal Aviation Administration compliance requirements tighten, remote identification capabilities expand and proposed rules move toward organizational accountability, making it crucial to update contracts, schedules, safety protocols and data-governance practices now to avoid future liability, say attorneys at Cozen.

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4 Emerging Approaches To AI Protective Order Language

Over the last year, at least five federal district courts have issued or analyzed specific protective order provisions restricting the use of generative artificial intelligence platforms with protected materials, establishing that proactive AI-specific provisions are now standard practice and demonstrating that no single model works for every case, says Joel Bush at Kilpatrick.

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How They Won It

Attys For Tufts Profs Didn't Blink In A Tenure Standoff

By Julie Manganis

When Jennifer Henricks and Kevin Peters first learned what was happening to tenured professors at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston a few years ago, they knew that what was at stake involved more than just a dispute over the terms of a contract.

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Palestinian Ex-Associate Slaps DLA Piper With Bias Claim

By Lynn LaRowe

DLA Piper has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit in Illinois from a former summer associate alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation based on her identity as a Palestinian, Gazan, Arab and Muslim woman.

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Fired Immigration Judge Says Trump Can't Skirt Bias Laws

By Grace Elletson

A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.

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Law Student Can't Get School To Nix Kirk Comment Discipline

By Mike Curley

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said the court cannot force Texas Tech University's leaders to rescind a reprimand against a law student who allegedly celebrated following the death of Charlie Kirk, as the university has sovereign immunity.

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Michigan Dems Noncommittal On Trump's Judicial Pick

By Courtney Bublé

Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.

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PayPal Settles Gov't DEI Probe With Small Biz Program

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with PayPal Inc. to end an investigation into what the department said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses.

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