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July 07, 2026
McCarter & English LLP and one of its Connecticut attorneys failed to uphold the applicable standard of care when advising insurers on $20 million worth of loan transactions that ultimately fell apart because the borrower stopped paying, an expert witness told a Connecticut state court on Tuesday.
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July 07, 2026
Attorneys representing investors in a derivative litigation over a sexual misconduct scandal involving former top real estate brokers at luxury residential firm Douglas Elliman were awarded $1.87 million in the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday for fees and expenses, about half their original request.
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July 07, 2026
A data annotation company accused of using private recordings collected by Meta's smart glasses to train artificial intelligence models is not entitled to insurance coverage, a Travelers unit told a California federal court, saying the company's policy bars coverage for the wrongful collection of protected personal information.
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July 07, 2026
Lawyers for the Trump administration and a Catholic religious order Tuesday asked the Third Circuit to restore broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage mandate, arguing federal agencies had discretion to pass rules that effectively enabled employers to "opt in" to the mandate rather than opt out.
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July 07, 2026
Chicagoland grocery chain owners were not entitled to microcaptive tax benefits because they failed to establish a bona fide in-house insurance arrangement, the government told the Seventh Circuit, saying the U.S. Tax Court correctly held that state law does not control the federal tax definition of insurance.
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July 07, 2026
An insurer for a home renovation company is bound by a nearly $78 million judgment in an underlying suit over an auto collision involving a worker who was on the way to perform plumbing services and cannot attack the judgment as fraudulent, a California federal judge has ruled.
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July 06, 2026
CVS has agreed to shell out $36.5 million to put to rest a handful of False Claims Act suits from states and the federal government, which allege the pharmacy chain submitted fraudulent Medicaid claims after giving patients more insulin than they were prescribed and lying about refill timelines.
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July 06, 2026
An annuity salesperson whose hostile work environment claim against Jackson National Life Insurance Co. was revived by the Tenth Circuit urged a Colorado federal judge Monday not to bar from trial a damages expert the company says the plaintiff denounced.
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July 06, 2026
3M Co. and Chubb unit Federal Insurance Co. reached a deal resolving a dispute over insurance coverage for thousands of product liability lawsuits claiming that a 3M post-surgery warming device caused patients to develop infections.
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July 06, 2026
Summer is heating up in North Carolina Business Court with a slew of recent rulings, including one greenlighting a data breach class action brought by current and former workers who allege Charlotte-based Bojangles failed to guard their personal information from hackers.
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July 06, 2026
A workers' compensation insurance company has been sued by a premium audit consultant who claims it failed to pay overtime wages to workers who regularly clocked far more than 40 hours a week, a North Carolina federal lawsuit alleges.
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July 06, 2026
A tile and slab distributor says it is entitled to coverage for more than 450 personal injury and wrongful death suits alleging exposure to toxins emitted during the fabrication process, telling a California federal court that a Travelers unit wrongfully refused to acknowledge the full extent of its obligations.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 06, 2026
A nonprofit hospital operator agreed to resolve a proposed class action alleging it unlawfully charged employees who used tobacco an additional fee to obtain health insurance, according to a Monday filing in Illinois federal court.
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July 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense and a Humana unit urged a D.C. federal court to toss allegations that they wrongfully denied Tricare coverage for a minor's inpatient mental health treatment, arguing the minor's parents lack standing because they weren't billed for the treatment at issue.
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July 06, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Monday affirmed a decision by the state's insurance commissioner to reject proposed workers' compensation insurance rates but ordered the commissioner to explain the basis for decreeing a steeper rate cut.
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July 06, 2026
Approximately 189 former NCR Corp. executives received a Georgia federal court's preliminary approval to their $47.7 million class action settlement resolving allegations the software company broke its commitment to periodically make annuity payments for life post-retirement, bringing the decade-long litigation closer to its end.
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July 06, 2026
A trailer manufacturer asked a Michigan federal court to force its insurer to participate in an appraisal to determine the amount and scope of loss stemming from a fire that destroyed its commercial property.
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July 06, 2026
The first half of 2026 brought long-awaited rulings providing clarity on the punitive damages pleading standard in Florida and the extent of a law allowing U.S. victims of Cuban property seizures to seek damages, as well as a high-profile guilty verdict in a rare foreign agent criminal trial. Here, Law360 looks at these and other notable developments from Florida so far this year.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
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July 02, 2026
If a onetime McCarter & English LLP partner had raised a single red flag about a Long Island town's legally flimsy agreement to repay $20 million worth of a businessman's loans, the ill-fated deals never would have gone forward, a Connecticut court heard.