Avis Budget Group didn't waive its right to arbitrate a dispute over its supplemental liability insurance by deposing a pair of customers in discovery, the Third Circuit ruled Monday, saying the car rental company needed to develop a factual record before moving to compel arbitration.
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Avis Didn't Waive Arbitration In Insurance Fight, 3rd Circ. Says

By Hope Patti

Avis Budget Group didn't waive its right to arbitrate a dispute over its supplemental liability insurance by deposing a pair of customers in discovery, the Third Circuit ruled Monday, saying the car rental company needed to develop a factual record before moving to compel arbitration.

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AIG Owes Primary Coverage For $4.7M Ambulance Crash Deal

By Hope Patti

An AIG unit owes primary coverage for a $4.75 million settlement of an underlying suit over an ambulance crash, a New Jersey federal court ruled, finding that a borough's coverage through a county joint insurance fund does not trigger an "other insurance" provision.

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Church Not Covered For Pastor Abuse Claims, Insurer Says

By Danielle Ferguson

An insurer told a federal court it doesn't have to defend or indemnify an Arkansas church, its former head pastor and related entities against a lawsuit claiming they covered up a youth pastor's sexual abuse, saying church leadership knew about allegations of sexual misconduct before the policy period.

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LITIGATION

Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Liberty Mutual Says Insurers Owe For Leaky Pipe Suits

By Danielle Ferguson

Liberty Mutual told a California federal court that two other insurers haven't paid their fair share of a pipe manufacturer's defense costs in lawsuits alleging the company's defective products led to leaks in construction projects, saying Liberty has contributed beyond its $1 million limit.

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Insurance Broker Says Rival Poached 18 Employees

By Julie Manganis

Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson says rival Lockton Cos. orchestrated a "smash and grab" of 18 employees who all quit within a 45-minute span Wednesday to jump to Lockton, taking more than a dozen clients with them, according to a suit in Massachusetts state court.

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Brief

ATI Retirees To Appeal Toss Of Pension De-Risking Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Former ATI employees will ask the Third Circuit to reopen a proposed class action alleging the aerospace company put their retirement benefits at risk by converting $1.5 billion in pension obligations to insurance-backed annuities, according to a filing in Pennsylvania federal court.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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Paul Weiss

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Saul Ewing

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Wilkinson Stekloff

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

ATI Inc.

Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

American International Group Inc.

Apple Inc.

Avis Budget Group Inc.

Avis Rent A Car System LLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co.

Campaign Legal Center

Capital One Financial Corp.

Church Mutual Insurance Co.

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

Deer Finance LLC

Discover Financial Services Inc.

Enviva LP

Fort Point Capital

Gemspring Capital

Hiscox Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

Jefferies Financial Group Inc.

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lockton Companies Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

RWE AG

State Street Global Advisors Inc.

Trump Organization Inc.

Willis Towers Watson PLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Justice

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Internal Revenue Service

New Jersey Supreme Court

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Supreme Court