Lindberg Should Pay $1.6B To Insurers, Special Master Says

By Hayley Fowler

A special master recommended Friday that insurance mogul Greg Lindberg pay over $1.6 billion in restitution to the insurance companies he is accused of defrauding, marking the final hurdle before the convicted billionaire is expected to be sentenced for his financial crimes.

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Gulf Reinsurance Plan Doubles To $40B With Added Insurers

By Hope Patti

Six major American insurers will join Chubb in providing $20 billion for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.'s initiative to restore maritime trade in the Gulf region amid the Iran war, doubling the total amount of available reinsurance to $40 billion, according to an announcement Friday.

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Northwestern Can't Escape ERISA Fight Over Health Offerings

By Kellie Mejdrich

An Illinois federal court refused to toss a proposed class action against Northwestern University alleging excessive employee healthcare costs violated federal benefits law, concluding ex-workers had sufficiently backed up their allegations that an expensive plan option breached fiduciary duties.

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Feature

4 Argument Sessions Benefits Attys Should Watch In April

By Kellie Mejdrich

Cigna retirees will ask the Second Circuit to revive a 24-year-old pension dispute, and the Seventh Circuit will hear a company's withdrawal liability fight with the Teamsters. Here, Law360 looks at those and two other argument sessions that benefits attorneys should have on their radar.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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Aetna Escapes COVID Testing Payment Suit In Calif.

By Mark Payne

A Nebraska testing laboratory failed to prove that Aetna underpaid more than $53 million for COVID-19 testing services, a California federal judge has ruled, dismissing the lab's federal racketeering and state law claims against the insurer but leaving the door open to an amended suit. 

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Del. Court Won't Revive Defunct Gasket Co. In Asbestos Case

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has declined to unwind the dissolution of Reinz Wisconsin Gasket LLC, ruling that an asbestos claimant failed to prove the defunct company had any meaningful assets that should have been preserved for future liabilities.

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3rd Circ. Preview: Arbitration Limits, Power Plant Safety

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Third Circuit in April is set to examine the limits of an arbitrator's authority to change awards once they've been made, potentially defining the restraints of commercial arbitration rules and when rulings can be revisited.

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E-Cig Wholesaler Says Insurer Owes $5M For Warehouse Fire

By Hope Patti

A wholesaler of electronic cigarette products is owed nearly $5 million in coverage for a warehouse fire that destroyed its inventory, it told an Illinois federal court, saying its insurer has wrongfully refused to pay anything beyond the $1.3 million it already paid for the loss.

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Anthem, Wells Fargo Say Patients Received All Benefits Owed

By Rachel Konieczny

Insurers urged a Colorado federal judge to allow them to escape claims from a mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator's lawsuit, alleging the facility lacks standing to bring claims under federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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Broker Says Ex-Managers, Competitor Took $900K In Revenue

By Aaron Keller

Boston-based RSC Insurance Brokerage Inc. has sued two former managing directors for allegedly orchestrating a talent and client "raid" while jumping to rival Marshall & Sterling Enterprises Inc., purportedly causing more than 15 accounts worth close to $900,000 in revenue to leave with them.

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Brief

DoorDash Dropped From Allstate Road Rage Coverage Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

Allstate voluntarily dropped DoorDash from its Washington federal suit seeking a judgment that it has no duty to defend a delivery driver facing allegations he killed another man in a road rage incident, leaving Uber as the only corporate defendant in the coverage dispute.

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Analysis

AI Boom Lifts Q1 M&A Values, As Attys Eye Wider Rebound

By Al Barbarino

Artificial intelligence-driven megadeals fueled a jump in first-quarter global mergers and acquisitions value, but lagging middle-market and private equity activity weighed on deal volume, as attorneys cautiously anticipate a broader rebound.

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Series

Mich. Banking Brief: All The Notable Legal Updates In Q1

Michigan's financial services sector saw several significant developments in 2026's first quarter, including the state Department of Insurance and Financial Services' issuance of a bulletin on the use of artificial intelligence and the Michigan House's introduction of a bill based on the Model Money Transmission Modernization Act, say attorneys at Dykema.

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ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak

By Tracey Read

The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

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Brief

Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

By Courtney Buble

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

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6th Circ. Axes Atty For 'Inexcusable' AI 'Transgressions'

By Rae Ann Varona

An attorney committed "inexcusable transgressions" by relying on Westlaw's internal CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform for appellate filings and by failing to catch erroneous AI-generated content, the Sixth Circuit said Friday and removed the lawyer from further representing a man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges.

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Analysis

'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Florida Gov., AG Face Criticism For Judge Impeachment Push

By Rose Krebs

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier faced pushback this week from some in the state's legal community for calling for the impeachment of a judge for releasing a man who went on to allegedly kill his five-year-old stepdaughter, with critics blasting those calls as being politically motivated and "unethical."

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Analysis

DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Policy May Eclipse SDNY's

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has put to use for the first time its new corporate enforcement policy of declining prosecutions when companies self-report potential criminal violations, but experts say the new, department-wide initiative has rendered a more business-friendly approach by the Southern District of New York moot.

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Ex-DOJ Official Wants Epstein-Talk Suit Kept In District Court

By Emily Sawicki

A former U.S. Department of Justice acting deputy chief who was fired last year after a hidden-camera video of him discussing the Epstein files was posted online has told a D.C. federal judge his due process case must survive in district court because the Trump administration now controls federal oversight agencies.

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Trump Seeks 13% Boost In DOJ Funding

By Courtney Bublé

The White House budget request for fiscal 2027, released on Friday, seeks $40.8 billion in discretionary funds for the U.S. Department of Justice, a 13% increase from the current year level.

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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. These are some of 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

Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

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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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