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June 25, 2026
A recently sentenced insurance magnate is asking a North Carolina federal court to order the federal Bureau of Prisons to grant him daily access to computers and his attorneys as he continues to fight a $1.6 billion restitution order.
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June 25, 2026
A clinic manager who paid patients in gift cards is challenging her six-year prison sentence, telling the Fourth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge failed to consider other mitigating factors when sentencing her for healthcare fraud and failing to file a tax return.
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June 25, 2026
A proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court alleges the founders and directors of insurance brokerage startup Newfront Insurance Holdings Inc. breached fiduciary duties by forcing employee shareholders to accept inferior merger consideration and restrictive employment conditions in the company's $1.05 billion sale to Willis Towers Watson PLC.
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June 25, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel appeared skeptical of a property insurer's argument that an exclusion for a failure to maintain an apartment complex freed it from defending the owner in a wrongful death suit stemming from arson.
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June 25, 2026
Allstate Insurance Co. can't be held vicariously liable for a subcontractor's spam calls to a man on a do-not-call list because the insurer did not know the company had been hired and could not be directly linked to allowing that extra layer of marketing, the Seventh Circuit said Wednesday.
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June 25, 2026
A real estate management company has settled its suit accusing an AIG unit of failing to cover property damage at a retail complex in Calabasas, California, according to a federal court filing.
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June 25, 2026
New Jersey-based McCarter & English LLP expanded its Indianapolis office with a team of three partners from Ice Miller LLP specializing in complex environmental contamination issues, including brownfield redevelopment, the firm announced Thursday.
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June 25, 2026
A Louisiana law firm and lawyer found guilty of criminal conspiracy and wire fraud for staging vehicle crashes as part of a scheme to defraud insurance carriers and trucking companies are seeking acquittal or a new trial, arguing that federal prosecutors failed to support their claims with evidence.
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June 24, 2026
Delta Dental of Washington said Tuesday an Evergreen State dentist targeting the dental insurer in a proposed antitrust class action has excluded its national affiliates from the case to "escape from a federal court's rejection of identical arguments" that the companies conspired to stifle insurer competition and suppress reimbursement rates.
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June 24, 2026
A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday affirmed the award of $389,362 in attorney fees for a firm that represented a homeowner in a Hurricane Irma coverage dispute, but found that a lower court unjustifiably multiplied the award to bring it up to roughly $1 million.
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June 24, 2026
In a precedential opinion dealing with an issue of first impression, the Third Circuit on Wednesday held that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts a doctor's defamation claim against Cigna because the statements stemmed from the administration of his patients' health plans.
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June 24, 2026
Drivers alleging their insurance carriers sold deceptive underinsured motorist benefits have secured approval of a $6.5 million settlement resolving a class action in New Mexico federal court that highlighted novel legal issues and led the state's top court to declare that underinsured motorist coverage with minimum limits in the state was misleading to the average consumer.
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June 24, 2026
Two brothers convicted in a $1.4 billion scheme to bill insurers inflated rates for drug tests told the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday that there was insufficient evidence to support their convictions and that they should have been allowed an evidentiary hearing after potential juror misconduct emerged following the trial.
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June 24, 2026
Kennedys has added to its New York office a team of 12 trial attorneys led by a former managing partner of Tyson & Mendes LLP with expertise in high-stakes, complex litigation, the firm announced Wednesday.
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June 24, 2026
UnitedHealthcare said it plans to defend itself against accusations that it overcharged Massachusetts for senior care, claiming the state's Medicaid program was not properly administered as it moved the case to federal court.
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June 24, 2026
A Liberty Mutual unit told a Pennsylvania federal court that it owes no coverage to a home care service provider in litigation over the abuse and death of a patient by a caregiver who was convicted of neglect and financial exploitation.
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June 23, 2026
Kaiser Permanente's health coverage arm must pay more than $82 million to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to cover unreimbursed emergency medical services, a California state judge ordered Tuesday, after a state appeals court backed a jury's verdict concerning payment for roughly 4,000 disputed medical service claims.
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court messed up when it ruled in an antitrust suit against Johnson & Johnson that the company bringing the suit needed to show specific intent in order to prop up a monopolization claim over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara.
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June 23, 2026
The official overseeing the Boy Scouts of America's settlement trust urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to order four insurers to release $211 million in escrowed funds tied to a $1.66 billion deal the debtor reached more than four years ago.
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse in 2023, is the sole owner of the bank's claim for coverage of a $73 million fraudulent scheme and is entitled to recover proceeds for losses the bank suffered, a North Carolina federal court ruled.
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June 23, 2026
UnitedHealth Group won dismissal of some claims in a proposed class action alleging the company mismanaged its employee 401(k) and profit sharing plan by misallocating forfeitures, but couldn't escape allegations that the way the company spent the funds breached fiduciary duties and caused transactions prohibited by federal benefits law.
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June 23, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court has turned away an insurance company's appeal of a decision that said it can't rely on two policy exclusions to deny professional liability coverage to a fertility doctor accused of fathering two children by secretly impregnating patients with his own sperm.
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June 23, 2026
An insurer's bid to revoke policies issued to a defunct employee leasing agency due to misrepresentations in its insurance applications is time-barred under New York law, a federal court ruled, finding that the insurer discovered the alleged fraud more than two years before filing suit.
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June 23, 2026
An insurer for a New Jersey facility for people with disabilities told a federal court Monday that it does not owe coverage in an underlying wrongful death suit because the group home did not inform the insurer of the claim until two years after the suit was filed.
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June 22, 2026
A man who claims that he was paralyzed in an auto crash caused by alcohol provided to guests at a "Beer Olympics" party cannot recover from the host homeowners' insurance provider, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Monday, saying the policy's motor vehicle exclusion bars coverage.