NASCAR's Kyle Busch Settles $8.5M Insurance Suit

By Ganesh Setty

NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his wife reached a settlement with their life insurer and its producer after accusing them in North Carolina federal court of causing them to lose over $8.5 million via complex life insurance products.

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Meta Must Face Worker's Transgender Health Coverage Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Meta can't escape a transgender employee's lawsuit claiming the company's health plan unlawfully denied her coverage of gender-affirming surgeries, an Oregon federal judge ruled, rejecting the company's assertion that she hadn't adequately alleged the plan covered her desired procedures.

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Court OKs Policy Rescission In Hotel Shooting Coverage Suit

By Hope Patti

An insurer for a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel was entitled to rescind its policy after the hotel was sued in connection with the fatal shooting of a guest by a security guard, a New York federal court ruled, saying the hotel misrepresented the presence of armed guards in its policy application.

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Life Insurer Sanctioned For Ignoring Orders To Transfer Policy

By Hope Patti

An Ohio federal court sanctioned a life insurer for failing to comply with orders dating to 2003 that required the carrier to transfer control of a dead policyholder's account to the court-appointed receiver for a viatical funding company.

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Brief

DOL Extends Comment Window On PBM Transparency Rule

By Grace Elletson

The U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that the public will be given more time to comment on a new proposed rule that would require pharmacy benefit managers to disclose how much money they've received while serving as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.

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Insurer Challenges Hail Damage Claim Timing

By Zach Dupont

An insurer said in Colorado federal court Friday that the Denver-area homeowners association accusing it of delaying and not properly covering losses following a hailstorm hasn't proved that the claimed damage occurred during the policy period.

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Recovery Provider Asks For Halt To Anthem's Claims Practices

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator and its patients asked a Colorado federal judge to stop Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's claims practices, alleging its process violates federal benefits and mental health parity laws and disrupts access to lifesaving care.

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NYC Health Center Sues HHS Over $31M Medicare Repayment

By Mark Payne

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unlawfully attempting to recoup more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments made during the COVID-19 pandemic, a New York City skilled nursing center told a federal court, saying it shouldn't have to repay the money.

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Insurer Sued For Denying Life Insurance Claim Over Kratom Use

By Mike Curley

An Ohio woman sued Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in federal court Friday, alleging that the insurer wrongly denied her life insurance claim because her late husband used kratom, even though kratom is not a controlled substance or otherwise contraband.

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Roundup

6 Arguments Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In March

By Kellie Mejdrich

An ex-Wells Fargo worker will ask the Eighth Circuit to revive a suit challenging 401(k) forfeiture spending, the Trump administration will push the Ninth Circuit to greenlight its transgender health coverage policies and the Fourth Circuit will hear a severance fight from manufacturing plant workers. Here, Law360 looks at six oral argument sessions to watch out for in the coming month.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Linklaters sue a shipping company, high-street clothing giant Urban Outfitters hit with an intellectual property claim, Ithaca Energy sue rival Chrysaor, and cabaret club magnate Alex Proud face legal action with his nightclubs in financial turmoil.

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Opinion

AI-Assisted Arbitration Needs Safeguards To Ensure Fairness

As tribunals and arbitral institutions increasingly use artificial intelligence tools in their decision-making processes, ​​​​​​​clear disclosure standards and procedural safeguards are necessary to ensure that efficiency gains do not erode the fairness principles on which arbitration depends, says Alexander Lima at Wesco International.

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Goldstein Testimony 'Solidified' Case, Juror Says

By Jared Foretek

One of the 12 jurors who convicted SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein on a slew of tax and mortgage charges on Feb. 25 told Law360 that the key moment in the 16-day trial was when the famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer took the stand, with the juror calling the testimony "a performance."

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Up Next At High Court: Drug User Gun Possession

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its February oral argument session by hearing its newest Second Amendment case over a federal law that prohibits drug users from possessing firearms, as well as a dispute over whether motor carrier brokers can be held liable for truck crashes under state law.

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Del. Supreme Court OKs Disputed Corporate Law Rework

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's Supreme Court upheld Friday hotly contested legislation approved by state lawmakers in 2025 that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts involving controlling stockholders or potentially conflicted officers or directors, and narrowed public access to some corporate books and records.

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When Murder Charges Reach People Who Didn't Kill

By Marco Poggio

Felony murder murder charges permit people to be convicted of murder, even when they neither killed nor intended to kill. Critics say the charges drive excessive sentences, and a wave of reconsideration in courts and legislatures have led states like California to narrow their reach, while others are weighing whether the long prison terms tied to them are constitutional.

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Optimum Says Apollo, BlackRock Bullied Kirkland Withdrawal

By Bryan Koenig

Optimum Communications is escalating its fight accusing Apollo, Ares, BlackRock and other financial giants of an illegal joint campaign constricting its ability to refinance debt, amending its New York federal court complaint to also accuse the companies of "bullying" Kirkland & Ellis LLP into withdrawing as its transaction counsel.

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Calif. Mass Tort Firm Drops Suit Against ABS Fee-Sharing Ban

By James Mills

A California mass torts firm seeking to overturn the state's law banning alternative business structure fee sharing with out-of-state law firms owned by nonattorneys dropped its suit Thursday, three months after filing it.

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Marshall Dennehey Can't Arbitrate Atty's Sex Harassment Suit

By Grace Elletson

An Ohio appeals court declined Thursday to send a former Marshall Dennehey PC attorney's sexual harassment suit to arbitration, ruling that mocking comments he faced from a senior lawyer triggered the protection of a law that shields sex misconduct disputes from being kicked out of court.

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Injury Defense Atty Scolded For 'Gotcha' Litigation Tactic

By Y. Peter Kang

A Florida appellate panel on Friday upheld the dismissal of a car crash suit after plaintiffs' counsel failed to appear at a pretrial hearing due to illness, but also chastised defense counsel for a "gotcha" litigation tactic in not informing the judge of opposing counsel's illness despite knowing about it.

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Katten Pushes For Atty Immunity To Non-Clients' Suit In Texas

By Lynn LaRowe

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP is asking the Texas Supreme Court to shut down a state court lawsuit brought by co-defendants of a client they successfully represented in a federal criminal investigation over alleged healthcare fraud, saying lower courts that refused to dismiss are seeking to limit the state's "hundred-year-old doctrine" of attorney immunity.

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Pro Bono Spotlight

NY Prisoner Gets Rare $600K Deal With Gibson Dunn's Help

By Parker Quinlan

A man incarcerated in a New York state prison who was placed in solitary confinement for over six years has obtained a $600,000 settlement after filing a pro se lawsuit that drew the aid of pro bono counsel from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

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Calif. Bar Charges Atty With Misconduct In LA Utility Case

By Dorothy Atkins

The California State Bar has lobbed disciplinary charges against veteran plaintiffs attorney Paul Kiesel, accusing him of helping divert class action litigation against the city of Los Angeles over a botched utility billing system, allegations which he vigorously denied and slammed as "unfounded, misguided and fundamentally wrong."

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Markey Pushes Bill To Bolster Immigrant Legal Access

By Ganesh Setty

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., announced on Friday that he will introduce legislation to help immigrants secure legal counsel in deportation and other immigration proceedings via a $100 million grant program.

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Hub Hires: Seyfarth, Greenberg Traurig, Outside GC

By Chris Villani

Massachusetts may be buried under a blanket of snow, but the Boston legal market was anything but frozen in February. Seyfarth bolstered its depth in mergers and acquisitions, Greenberg Traurig snagged a benefits attorney, and Outside General Counsel hired a new managing partner.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A proxy season preview report showed that nearly three-quarters of shareholder proposals for annual corporate meetings among Russell 3000 companies this year have gone to a vote. The U.S. Department of Labor unveiled the details of a long-awaited proposed rule to replace a previous administration's regulation outlining how to decide if a worker is an employee or independent contractor. These are among the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Milbank LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down tariffs imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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