Full 6th Circ. Nixes Class Cert. In State Farm Vehicle Value Suit

By Eli Flesch

The full Sixth Circuit on Friday reversed the certification of a class of 90,000 State Farm policyholders in a suit claiming the insurer systematically undervalues totaled vehicles, finding the insurer has a right to present unique evidence for specific class members.

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Jury To Weigh Coverage Suit Over Ex-Chemoil CEO's Fee Deal

By Hope Patti

It is up to a jury to decide whether the ex-CEO of an oil company breached provisions of the company's directors and officers policy when he entered into a $1.2 million deal with his former employer without the insurers' approval, a New Jersey federal court ruled Friday.

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Chinese Bank Must Face Aon Unit's Reinsurance Fraud Suit

By Hope Patti

China's largest bank can't avoid an Aon PLC subsidiary's suit seeking to hold the bank liable for its alleged role in a multibillion-dollar reinsurance fraud scheme, a New York state court ruled, allowing all but one negligence claim to move forward.

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2nd Circ. Nixes Cigna Retirees' Bid For Added Discovery

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit refused to restart proceedings in a class action from Cigna retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, ruling Friday that a lower court was correct to hold that the ex-workers hadn't shown the insurer was disregarding orders to reform their retirement plan. 

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Blue Cross Licensee Seeks Exit From Claims Practices Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Blue Cross licensee told a Colorado federal judge that it has "no control" over Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's provider network and therefore shouldn't have to face a treatment facilities operator's suit alleging it violated federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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Cigna Plan Members Say HIPAA Notice Backs Privacy Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A group of Cigna health plan participants who claimed the company failed to protect their private health information when it tracked their website activities told a Pennsylvania federal judge that the insurance giant should not be allowed to dodge new allegations that their HIPAA rights were violated.

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Barnes & Thornburg Lands 6 Bradley Arant Attys In Southeast

By Adrian Cruz

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced Thursday that the firm has hired six attorneys from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP for its Atlanta and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, offices, increasing its capabilities in the tax and insurance recovery practice groups.

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5 Trial Lessons You Learn By Losing

Exploring insights that are usually gained only after trial loss can expose the gaps between what we intend to communicate and what lands with the fact-finder, including why being right isn't always a win and how winning a cross‑examination can help you lose your case, says Allison Rocker at Baker & McKenzie.

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DLA Piper Clears Vote To End Verein, Unify Leadership

By Tracey Read

DLA Piper announced Friday that firm partners on both sides of the Atlantic have "overwhelmingly approved" a plan to dissolve its Swiss verein structure effective May 1.

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Judge Albright Reflects On 8 Years Shaping Patent Law

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright will be walking away from the Western District of Texas at the end of the summer, ready to head back into patent litigation work. He talked with Law360 on Friday about the rockier elements of his judgeship and lessons he'll take into private practice.

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Wigdor Sanctioned For Lying In Leon Black Rape Case

By Ryan Boysen

Prominent victims rights law firm Wigdor LLP has been sanctioned for lying to a New York federal judge while pursuing a lawsuit that claims ex-Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black raped a teenager provided to him by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Consovoy McCarthy PLLC, Butler Prather LLP, Bowen Painter LLC and Cannella Snyder LLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan.

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Oregon Lawyer Ordered To Pay Attorney Fees For Use Of AI

By Matt Perez

An Oregon attorney was sanctioned by a state appellate court for filing a brief containing a fabricated list of authorities because she used generative artificial intelligence, marking the first case in the jurisdiction to present the option of awarding attorney fees as a sanction as opposed to fines payable to the court.

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Akin Can't 'Recast' Appeal As Good-Faith Effort, 9th Circ. Told

By Lauren Berg

A European winemaker slammed attempts by a U.S. importer and its Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to "recast a frivolous appeal as a good-faith effort," saying they should have to pay monetary sanctions for pursuing what the Ninth Circuit called a "self-indulgent" appeal of a valid arbitration award.

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Analysis

One Certainty As Tariff Refunds Start: 'There Will Be Litigation'

By Chris Villani

The launch of the refund process for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court marks the start of lengthy and multifaceted court battles as companies fight with consumers — and amongst themselves — about who gets a slice of the $166 billion pie, experts told Law360.

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Up Last At High Court: TPS, Geofence, Skinny Labels

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its oral argument portion of the 2025 October term by hearing a panoply of disputes over the constitutionality of geofence warrants, the existence of aiding and abetting torture claims, and the rescission of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

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Roundup

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

In what may be a first, a federal judge has ordered BJ's Wholesale Club to put an investor's climate-related proxy proposal up for a vote of the shareholders at the company's annual meeting. And a new study shows that more in-house counsel are staying in place despite pay increases slowing amid less competition for talent.

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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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