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April 02, 2026
The past week in London has seen data giant Sportrader face action from software company Altenar over alleged market abuse, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Pliego sue a man who allegedly defrauded him out of $415 million, and Warner Bros. bring a copyright claim against a YouTuber who leaked set footage of the upcoming Harry Potter series. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 02, 2026
An Atlanta-based risk management and insurance agency's carelessness with consumers' personal information allowed an August 2025 data breach that affected thousands, according to a proposed class action in Georgia federal court.
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April 01, 2026
An insurance company that is a unit of Berkshire Hathaway had an obligation to defend Trulieve Inc. against a Massachusetts wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of a cannabis worker, a Florida federal judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that the worker wasn't an employee.
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April 01, 2026
An insurance company has reached a deal with two Washington smoke shops to end a dispute in which the insurer argued its policies did not cover defending retailers in a suit by a father who claims they sold kratom products that killed his son.
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April 01, 2026
A Utah health provider's bad faith claim against its insurer over coverage of a lawsuit stemming from a woman's fatal liposuction surgery which resulted in a $60 million judgment at trial is back before the Tenth Circuit, with a three-judge panel hearing argument Wednesday regarding if the bad faith claim against the insurer can be heard by a jury.
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April 01, 2026
A Florida state appellate panel on Wednesday revived a condominium association's suit challenging an insurer's coverage denial for Hurricane Irma damage, finding that the trial court wrongly disregarded allegations that the insurer intentionally delayed its coverage determination to skirt the statute of limitations.
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April 01, 2026
The litigation trustee for defunct financial services firm GWG Holdings has sued Ankura Consulting Group in Texas bankruptcy court, accusing it of "knowing (or reckless) facilitation" of a billion-dollar accounting fraud that helped push the insolvent company into Chapter 11.
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April 01, 2026
A former Connecticut utility CEO and his onetime employer have agreed to the dismissal of his lawsuit alleging that he is owed defense costs tied to a pending criminal corruption case, which follows his conviction for misusing public funds on trips to the Kentucky Derby.
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April 01, 2026
A timber company and its independent fiduciary won dismissal of a proposed class action from pensioners who said the companies' choice of annuity provider for a $1.5 billion pension transfer put their retirements at unnecessary risk, after a Washington federal judge ruled that allegations failed to state a claim.
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April 01, 2026
Two cyber insurers don't owe coverage to a Mississippi law firm after a fraudster used a false identity to hoodwink the firm out of more than $158,000 by procuring legal services to secure an owed debt that turned out to be fake, a federal court has ruled.
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April 01, 2026
A Travelers unit recklessly disregarded its insured's interests in litigation that resulted in a $241 million verdict in favor of the family of a man who died while transporting dry ice for a Prairie Farms subsidiary, according to a complaint filed in Illinois federal court.
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April 01, 2026
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland, California, told a bankruptcy judge Wednesday it removed $42 million in settlements with insurance carriers from its proposed Chapter 11 plan to eliminate one source of conflict with the committee representing abuse claimants in the case.
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April 01, 2026
An Irish reinsurer has to pay only a $1.62 million arbitral award issued to Tyson Foods for a fire at a Tyson plant in Alabama, a New York federal court said, ruling against Tyson's request for a $22.5 million payout.
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April 01, 2026
A New York state court judge said Wednesday that Luigi Mangione's trial for the alleged murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson would begin Sept. 8, moving the date hours after a Manhattan federal judge said the federal trial against him would commence in late October.
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March 31, 2026
A D.C. federal judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction to a shareholder advocacy group suing Chubb for excluding its climate-related proposal from Chubb's yearly proxy materials, ruling Tuesday it hasn't shown the proposal falls outside U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations exempting proposals involving issues related to a company's ordinary business operations.
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March 31, 2026
A Texas federal judge has declined to let Berkley National Insurance Co. off the hook in a lawsuit accusing it of mishandling competing settlement demands, finding that a group of energy companies stated a viable claim in an amended petition that the insurer exposed them to out-of-pocket liability after exhausting most of a $22 million policy on a separate claim.
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March 31, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical that a TJX Cos. employee can recover up to the full $2 million limit in his employer's auto policy with Zurich American Insurance Co., rather than its $15,000 limit for underinsured motorists.
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March 31, 2026
An insurer doesn't owe additional coverage to the owner of a vacant church building beyond the $875,000 it already paid for a 2021 arson fire, a Missouri federal court ruled Tuesday, finding that the owner materially breached the policy's cooperation clause by failing to properly submit its damages.
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March 31, 2026
Major insurance companies including Aetna, Cigna, Humana and UnitedHealth must face claims they conspired to reduce reimbursements to healthcare providers, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Monday, finding that the doctors' allegations could constitute antitrust violations.
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March 31, 2026
An Illinois federal court refused to certify a class of State Farm policyholders who accused the insurer of systematically undervaluing claims for totaled vehicles by applying a so-called typical negotiation adjustment, saying individualized issues predominated.
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March 31, 2026
A Liberty Mutual unit accused Yale University's health system of making "serious and material misstatements" about a plan member's bone marrow transplant, the insurer said in its answer and counterclaim for a declaratory judgment that it can continue to deny the $4.1 million claim.
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March 30, 2026
Pennsylvania National Mutual Casualty Insurance Co. has no obligation to cover a $2.2 million judgment won by a man alleging he was exposed to lead-based paint at a Baltimore property where he resided when he was a child, a Maryland federal judge has ruled.
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March 30, 2026
The trade organization American Property Casualty Insurance Association is urging North Carolina's justices to reverse an order adverse to a pair of insurers in a $50 million COVID-19 coverage fight, arguing in an amicus brief that the order permits the "absurd" result of one of the state's statutes and its case law applying nationwide.
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March 30, 2026
A New York federal judge declined Monday to let Swiss Re's American unit escape a suit claiming it kept an underperforming investment fund in its retirement plan and failed to utilize forfeited cash, ruling the workers behind the case showed the company may have made shoddy management decisions.
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March 30, 2026
A waste management company is not entitled to coverage for a lawsuit over the death of an intoxicated man who climbed into a dumpster and was crushed by a truck's compactor, a Pennsylvania federal court ruled, citing an insurance policy exclusion for injuries related to the use of an auto.