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  1. June 13, 2024

    High Court Sticks To Status Quo In Insurance-Packed Term

    The U.S. Supreme Court embraced an insurance-packed docket in its current term, tackling thorny coverage issues head on or indirectly, hewing close to the status quo in decisions whose impact will be felt by insurers and policyholders across the industry. Here, Law360 reviews the top insurance-related decisions issued this term.

  2. February 21, 2024

    Justices Back Choice-Of-Law In Marine Insurance Suit

    An insurer can enforce choice-of-law provisions in a marine insurance policy it issued to the owner of a yacht that ran aground, the U.S. Supreme Court said Wednesday in a decision upholding long-standing maritime law principles of uniformity and certainty.

  3. January 01, 2024

    Top Specialty Lines Insurance Cases To Watch In 2024

    The new year promises to bring major decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court down to the district court level on issues affecting key questions in specialty lines of insurance coverage. Here, Law360 looks at specialty lines cases to watch in the first half of 2024.

  4. October 10, 2023

    Justices Probe Fed., State Law Interplay In Maritime Insurance

    The U.S. Supreme Court probed both a yacht owner and its insurer Tuesday on whether there is a federal maritime insurance law that would back the insurer's choice-of-law provision over coverage for a grounded yacht, with the justices seeming slightly more skeptical of the owner's position.

  5. October 06, 2023

    Up Next At High Court: Whistleblower Suit, SC Voting Map

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return from a three-day weekend to hear arguments over the constitutionality of South Carolina's new congressional map, the burden of proof whistleblowers carry in retaliation lawsuits, and whether federal or state law should govern certain maritime insurance disputes.

  6. September 01, 2023

    Fed. Law Must Govern Marine Insurance Row, Justices Told

    Federal law should determine the enforceability of a choice-of-law clause in a yacht owner's maritime insurance policy, Great Lakes Insurance SE told the U.S. Supreme Court in support of its bid to quash the Third Circuit's revival of its coverage dispute with the yacht owner.

  7. August 09, 2023

    States Back Yacht Owner In High Court Choice-Of-Law Row

    Louisiana, Mississippi and Pennsylvania urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Third Circuit decision ordering a lower court to determine whether a New York choice-of-law provision in a yacht owner's maritime insurance policy can be sidestepped in place of Pennsylvania state law.

  8. July 31, 2023

    State Law Should Guide Choice-Of-Law Row, Justices Told

    A yacht owner told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday that Pennsylvania law and public policy should override a choice-of-law clause in its marine insurance policy, asking it to affirm the Third Circuit's resurrection of its fight against its insurer.

  9. June 05, 2023

    Trade Groups Back Marine Insurer In High Court Fight

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association, among others, filed amicus briefs with the U.S Supreme Court on Friday supporting Great Lakes Insurance SE in its fight over a choice-of-law clause in a policyholder's insurance contract.