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April 29, 2026
A Pennsylvania insurance company has said a Boston-area Mercedes dealership must reimburse the insurer for a claim it had to pay after the dealer allegedly gave a $100,000 luxury SUV to people who posed as transport workers and stole it.
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April 29, 2026
Kemper Corp. has been hit with more proposed class data privacy claims from customers who say the insurance giant's "egregiously inadequate" data security protocols allowed unauthorized hackers to obtain more than 13 million private records and post them for sale on the dark web.
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April 29, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel seemed dubious of a law firm's argument that a federal court lacked jurisdiction over a claim that it shuffled assets to avoid paying an arbitration award that totaled $70 million, saying Wednesday that the firm's argument was "a stretch."
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April 29, 2026
An insurer said it owes no coverage to a behavioral health facility in an underlying suit alleging that an employee carried out an inappropriate relationship with a patient, telling a Washington federal court Wednesday that the policy bars coverage for sexual misconduct.
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April 29, 2026
A Houston couple who accused a law firm and a since-dismissed Progressive unit of conspiring to share the private information of car crash victims has dropped federal claims against the firm after reportedly finding no evidence that it engaged in the conduct they alleged.
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April 29, 2026
A Texas-headquartered health insurance agency will pay $5 million to settle allegations that it engaged in deceptive and unfair marketing to sell plans and other types of health programs to thousands of Massachusetts consumers, the state's attorney general announced on Wednesday.
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April 29, 2026
Dollar General can't kibosh a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully charged employees who use tobacco nearly $500 more per year for health benefits, with a Tennessee federal judge ruling the company hadn't properly addressed how an exclusion in its arbitration agreement applied to the case.
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April 29, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit will reconsider insurance company Aetna's bid to force uniform and food services company Aramark to arbitrate its dispute over employee health benefit claims, staying a panel's ruling from December that had kept proceedings in court.
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April 29, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals court on Wednesday ruled that auto insurers are generally entitled to halt discovery on bad faith claims, including those brought under the state's Insurance Fair Conduct Act, until underlying uninsured or underinsured motorist disputes are resolved.
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April 29, 2026
The maker of Little Debbie snacks has filed a federal complaint arguing that Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. must make good on construction bonds and cover millions of dollars in damages and legal expenses stemming from a construction company's failure to finish work on a plant in Tennessee.
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April 28, 2026
An insurance company urged the Fourth Circuit not to review a panel's earlier decision unraveling certification for more than 4,000 of the insurance company's 401(k) plan participants on claims they lost millions from underperforming BlackRock Inc. target date funds, arguing against two ex-workers' bid for en banc review.
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April 28, 2026
The Trump administration's plans to promulgate new regulations governing mental health parity requirements for employee health plans are currently causing headaches for attorneys, but a rule that includes specific examples could ultimately ease compliance burdens for benefit plan sponsors.
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April 28, 2026
While the volume of malpractice lawsuits against U.S. physicians has dropped in recent years, that doesn't mean the threat of legal liability is dissipating, according to a report released Monday by the American Medical Association.
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April 28, 2026
An insurer told a North Carolina federal court that it owes no coverage to a small business loan nonprofit accused of harming the reputation of a disbarred attorney through its allegations that he defaulted on a COVID-19 rapid recovery loan.
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April 28, 2026
A Maryland couple can pursue a proposed class action against a health insurer that they say wrongfully denied coverage for embryo thawing in connection with an in vitro fertilization procedure, the Maryland Supreme Court has ruled, finding that the insurer's subsequent payment of the claim doesn't moot the suit.
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April 27, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a portion of Colorado law addressing procedural requirements for insurers asserting failure-to-cooperate defenses against policyholders applies only to a policyholder's general duty to cooperate, not their duty to satisfy specific contract requirements.
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April 27, 2026
A laborer injured while working on the Goethals Bridge replacement project attempted to persuade the New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday to broaden the duty of care for general contractors on commercial construction projects.
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April 27, 2026
Participants of an alleged scheme to defraud a veterans' contracting program must abide by a 2024 settlement reached on the eve of trial, a D.C. federal judge ruled Monday, rejecting an IT firm's claims that the deal has become "commercially impracticable."
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April 27, 2026
Emergency room doctors urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday not to disturb a Fifth Circuit decision reviving their insurance reimbursement dispute against Blue Cross Blue Shield involving out-of-network claims from employee benefit plans, arguing the appellate court correctly restarted proceedings in the case.
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April 27, 2026
Car rental companies that offer supplemental insurance through their own carriers cannot be deemed insurers of customers who purchase that coverage through rental agreements, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday in a case against Hertz Corp.
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April 27, 2026
The Minnesota Supreme Court should be the arbiter of whether Amazon can be held liable for a $3.8 million office fire caused by a defective phone battery sold by a Chinese manufacturer on its platform, an Eighth Circuit panel said Monday.
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April 27, 2026
A contractor hit with a $174.6 million judgment over construction delays and defects stemming from a Marriott construction project in Philadelphia has asked the court to toss the verdict and grant a new trial, arguing the judge handling the case held it to the wrong legal standard.
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April 27, 2026
A Pennsylvania dentist convicted along with his brother for using their dental practice to defraud Medicare, install unapproved dental implants in patients, and falsify visas to recruit foreign workers has asked a federal judge for acquittal or a new trial, arguing the government failed to show he committed any crimes.
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April 27, 2026
Insurance agents, their firms and an industry group agreed to drop a suit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor's 2020 interpretation on how fiduciary duties apply in rollover investment advice situations, which comes after the agency adjusted its regulations in March to reflect how litigation developments had changed policy.
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April 27, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.