Elevance Can't Nix Suit Over GLP-1 Coverage For Sleep Apnea

By Grace Elletson

An Indiana federal judge declined to toss a proposed class action claiming Elevance Health Inc. illegally denied coverage for a GLP-1 weight loss medication that was prescribed to treat sleep apnea, ruling that the insurance company is the right party to answer to the allegations at play.

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Tax Deal Coverage Row Must Precede Tort Claims, Judge Says

By Chart Riggall

A Georgia federal judge won't allow a conservation easement entity to litigate tort claims against its insurer while they arbitrate a dispute over coverage for an IRS settlement, ruling that those claims could only be sorted out after an initial coverage determination.

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Allstate Says Texas Family Stole $7.9M In Medical Billing Scam

By Hope Patti

A Texas family and their collection of companies carried out a scheme to defraud Allstate out of $7.9 million by submitting false records and bills for unnecessary medical services purportedly provided to motor vehicle crash victims, the insurer alleged in a suit filed in Texas federal court Friday.

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'Pay Us Enough To Live': Worker Charged In $500M Depot Fire

By Bonnie Eslinger

A Southern California man who compared himself to Luigi Mangione has been charged in federal court with deliberately setting fires that destroyed the 1.2 million-square-foot Ontario warehouse where he worked.

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Logistics Co. Says Chubb Unit Owes $3.3M For Storm Damage

By Hope Patti

A Texas-based apparel logistics company sued a Chubb unit to recover $3.3 million for wind and hail damage stemming from a March 2023 storm, saying the insurer engaged in an outcome-oriented investigation and then wrongfully denied coverage.

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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 the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Barnes & Thornburg Adds 12 Lowenstein Insurance Attys

By Andrea Keckley

Barnes & Thornburg LLP announced on Friday that it has taken on 12 insurance recovery attorneys from Lowenstein Sandler LLP, touting their work for policyholders across the East Coast.

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Steps To Maintain War Insurance Amid Middle East Conflict

To ensure they are adequately protected from war-related risk, companies affected by the escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf should consider how their war insurance coverage interacts with financing structures, lease obligations and commercial risk allocation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Andrea Keckley

Two personal injury firms in Michigan lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions for their work to secure a more than $300 million verdict against a prison health services provider and one of its doctors for refusing to approve a 34-year-old man's surgery while he was detained at a local jail.

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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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