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July 08, 2026
A California federal judge has declined to reopen an asbestos suit by an insurance exchange for the trucking industry against a group of reinsurers as the parties battle whether to remove a supposedly "side-switching" arbitrator, saying the arbitration is proceeding in New York.
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July 08, 2026
The Hartford judge presiding over a $22.5 million lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP and a former partner said Wednesday he had "serious doubts" about allowing testimony from a defense expert, but let him proceed as long as he did not claim to interpret New York law.
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July 08, 2026
A Maryland federal court has ruled that Under Armour Inc. doesn't need to pay eight excess insurers prejudgment interest over its return of $90 million in advanced coverage for defense costs, following a Fourth Circuit reversal in their directors and officers coverage fight.
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July 08, 2026
Insurers under Nationwide and Lloyd's of London are facing a suit in the North Carolina Business Court from a digital marketing company alleging the insurers owe it for costs it incurred defending itself from claims it invaded users' privacy.
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July 08, 2026
An Arizona federal court tossed a proposed class action accusing Tesla's auto insurance subsidiary of underpaying claims for uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, finding that the court's lack of subject matter jurisdiction cannot be cured by the addition of two new carrier defendants.
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July 08, 2026
A specialty auto policy limiting uninsured motorist coverage to accidents that occur in a covered classic car is enforceable under Alabama law because it operates in tandem with a standard auto policy that satisfies statutory coverage requirements, the Eleventh Circuit ruled on Wednesday.
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July 08, 2026
Crowell & Moring announced Wednesday that an attorney with more than 30 years of experience in insurance recovery has joined the firm's Washington, D.C., office as a partner.
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July 07, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pushed insurers to explain why they should be allowed to avoid covering the defense of Ericsson Inc. against claims the company funded foreign terrorist organizations, asking Tuesday if Ericsson knew the money it gave out "was going to kill Americans."
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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
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
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
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.