Okla. Judge Keeps Malpractice Suit Over $92M Verdict Alive

By Emily Sawicki

An Oklahoma federal judge has refused to toss an insurer's malpractice suit against a law firm over a $92 million judgment in a dispute over apartment fire coverage.

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Canadian Insurer Escapes Subpoena In NJ Malpractice Row

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge nixed a subpoena served on a Canadian insurer, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to compel a foreign nonparty to produce documents or testimony in Canada in a legal malpractice suit stemming from an $18 million judgment against a trucking company.

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Insurer Gets $2 In Damages In Trade Secret, Contract Case

By Elliot Weld

A Chicago-based captive insurer was granted a favorable judgment on some claims of trade secret misappropriation and breach of contract but was awarded only $2 in nominal damages in a case alleging that an insurance seller and some agents lifted confidential client lists.

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6th Circ. Urged To Affirm Tobacco Fee Suit Toss

By Kellie Mejdrich

A trade group representing large employee benefit plan administrators wrote in support of insurance giant Progressive at the Sixth Circuit, asking the appellate court to back dismissal of a proposed class action alleging the insurer wrongfully charged workers more for healthcare who used tobacco and refused COVID-19 vaccination. 

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Geico Says NJ Top Court Upends 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

By Danielle Ferguson

Geico urged a New Jersey federal court to reject medical clinics' bid to dismiss remaining claims in a lawsuit alleging they fraudulently billed no-fault patients, saying that a recent state supreme court ruling bolsters the insurer's argument that complex insurance fraud claims do not belong in arbitration.

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Fitness Co. Not Covered In Email Ad Class Suit, Insurer Says

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it owes no coverage to a fitness equipment company accused of violating Washington state law by sending misleading email advertisements, telling a Tennessee federal court that the underlying action does not allege covered bodily injury, property damage or personal and advertising injury.

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Trucordia, Ex-Producers Fight Over Arbitration Clause

By Jarek Rutz

Counsel for former insurance producers Arthur and Kirk Maberry urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to send Trucordia's client-poaching lawsuit to arbitration, arguing that a broad arbitration clause in 2022 retention agreements still governs the dispute despite later employment and equity agreements.

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Truist Says Excess Insurers Owe For $240M Overdraft Deal

By Katryna Perera

Truist Bank has launched counterclaims against a group of insurers who claim they don't owe coverage to the bank for a $240 million settlement of a consumer class action stemming from alleged overdraft charges, arguing the relevant insurance policy expressly includes settlements, among other things, as covered damages.

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7-Eleven Reaches Deal To End Worker's Tobacco Fee Suit

By Grace Elletson

7-Eleven struck a deal to settle a proposed class action claiming it didn't give workers who used tobacco but agreed to quit an adequate chance to avoid paying a $720 annual health plan fee, according to a filing in Texas federal court.

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Steward Plan Trust Sues Insurers Over D&O Coverage Denial

By Emlyn Cameron

One of two trusts established under Steward Health Care's Chapter 11 plan has sued a gaggle of insurers in an offshoot lawsuit, saying the insurers were withholding half the coverage due to former directors and officers in another adversary case.

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Insurance Holding Co. Ch. 11 Plan OK'd With Equity Swap

By Ben Zigterman

Insurance holding firm Hallmark Financial Services on Tuesday received confirmation of its Chapter 11 plan, which calls for cutting about $116 million of the debtor's $135 million of funded debt through a debt-for-equity swap with its lender Hildene Capital Management.

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Vedder Adds Benefits And Exec Comp Pro From Winston Taylor

By Kellie Mejdrich

Vedder has added a seasoned employee benefits and executive compensation partner from Winston Taylor LLP to join its practice as a new shareholder in Chicago, where she will advise clients on a wide range of retirement, health and welfare benefits issues, the firm announced Tuesday.

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What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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Firm Revenue Climbs 12.4% In First Half Of 2026

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Record billing rate gains, strong demand and increased productivity fueled a successful start to the year for the legal industry, according to a report released Tuesday.

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Florida AG Slams Bar Complaint Against DHS Counsel

By Madison Arnold

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wrote to the executive director of the Florida Bar to criticize a recent complaint made to the bar against James Percival, general counsel of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, for attacking judges.

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Legal Watchdog Lodges Bar Complaint Against Jeanine Pirro

By Hailey Konnath

The Legal Accountability Center said Tuesday that it filed a bar complaint against U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, claiming that she abused her position to unjustifiably target Democratic lawmakers after they released a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that it's their duty to refuse unlawful orders.

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6th Circ. Says Judge Can't Escape Teen Mock Arrest Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Sixth Circuit panel on Monday allowed to proceed a Michigan federal lawsuit filed against a Detroit judge who handcuffed a 15-year-old student and subjected her to a mock trial after she fell asleep in his courtroom, ruling that judicial immunity does not protect him.

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Watchdog Wants NY Judge Ousted Over Retaliatory Suit

By Rose Krebs

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has determined a state judge should be removed from office for filing a retaliatory defamation suit against an eye-care worker who had lodged an ethics complaint over the judge refusing to wear a mask in an office in 2021.

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NY Times Says EEOC Dragging Feet On Anti-White Bias Info

By Grace Elletson

The New York Times Company has sued the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, claiming the anti-discrimination watchdog flouted federal law by failing to respond to requests for records of communications with conservative legal groups and agency efforts to investigate claims of bias against white workers.

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Colo. Judge Ships $8.3M Messner Reeves Fraud Suit To Utah

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado federal judge granted a motion Monday from law firm Messner Reeves LLP to move a lawsuit accusing the firm of stealing more than $8 million as part of a fraudulent loan scheme to Utah after finding the venue was the proper forum to litigate the claims.

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Tort Report: Mass. Jury Delivers Record Amazon Crash Verdict

By Y. Peter Kang

A record personal injury verdict against Amazon in a crash case and Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's upcoming sex abuse trial lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

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