A Washington winemaker cannot recover more than $40,000 in coverage for its loss of nearly 18,000 bottles of wine due to a faulty air conditioner, a federal court ruled, saying the winemaker's commercial prope... (more story)

Courts weighed in on issues ranging from exhausting at-fault driver's coverage, insurer insolvency, and designation forms for California policies. Law360 has the past week's top insurance news.

An insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify an Illinois condominium association, its board or a unit owner against a suit brought by the former condo board president, a federal court ruled, finding that an i... (more story)

A New Jersey state appeals court panel on Tuesday appeared troubled by a trial judge's decision to toss a malpractice suit accusing Hill Wallack LLP of mishandling the defense of a family facing labor traffick... (more story)

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the state's intermediate appellate court wrongly found that a man injured in a car crash was required to exhaust the at-fault driver's liability coverage before s... (more story)

A commercial property owner and an insurance company told a Georgia federal judge Monday they had ended their legal battle over coverage for a storm-damaged roof.

A North Carolina federal court permanently tossed an auto parts manufacturer's suit seeking $50 million in coverage for COVID-19 losses, saying the manufacturer failed to show that access to any of its insured... (more story)

Insurers urged a Colorado state judge to toss a flour processor's claims over coverage for equipment destroyed in a Texas mill explosion, saying a roughly $6 million coverage fight does not support bad faith c... (more story)

An Illinois federal judge handed a complete win to an insurer on its counterclaim that an electronic cigarette product wholesaler isn't owed nearly $5 million in coverage for a warehouse fire because it misrep... (more story)

Property and casualty insurance profitability is seeing generational highs with mortgage insurance and certain Florida homeowners carriers seeing particular success, but a relatively benign risk environment co... (more story)

A recent Colorado Supreme Court ruling promises to complicate policyholders' path to long-tail claims recovery.

Great American Insurance sued YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties in Washington federal court Wednesday, arguing it has no duty to defend it in an underlying child sexual abuse lawsuit and that the defendant ex... (more story)

Employers Mutual Casualty Co. filed suit in Washington federal court Wednesday seeking an order declaring that the insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify policyholder American Northwest Distributors Inc. a... (more story)

A Delaware state judge has stayed a lawsuit by American International Group subsidiaries seeking a declaration that they're not liable for covering Google's defense costs tied to social-media addiction multidi... (more story)

An email stating "Yikes ... no" in response to outside counsel's inquiry regarding a commercial bakery's biometric data collection practices proves the business and a logistics company misrepresented material ... (more story)

A Zurich unit urged a Missouri federal court to toss a pipeline construction company's counterclaims that the insurer improperly disclosed information about a $19 million interim arbitral award against the com... (more story)

The estate of a man wrongly convicted of an arson that killed his mother-in-law cannot receive $1.8 million for a settlement with a polygraph agency accused of coercing him into a false confession, an Illinois... (more story)

A Hanover Insurance unit told a Pennsylvania federal court that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a memory care facility or its operators and staff members in a number of underlying state court suits alleg... (more story)

The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that an umbrella or excess policy issuer isn't liable to drop down and provide first-dollar coverage when a scheduled underlying insurer becomes insolvent, according to the jus... (more story)

A Florida state appellate court on Friday issued a split opinion upholding a $1.19 million noneconomic damages verdict for a woman injured by an uninsured motorist, but reversed a $230,000 award for future med... (more story)

Law360 Insurance Authority speaks with Daniel J. Healy of Brown Rudnick about coverage for an electric vehicle client and "retroactive date exclusions" in D&O policies.

Great American Insurance Co. has agreed to drop its lawsuit seeking a declaration that it does not have a duty to defend a Washington-based buoy installation company against claims over damages to an underwate... (more story)

A South Carolina federal judge said Thursday she is likely to ask the state supreme court to weigh in on whether certain language in a pharmaceutical company's insurance policies applies only to identified ind... (more story)

A New Mexico federal judge said a county violated a protective order by disclosing information from confidential documents in a state court malpractice suit, saying the county's defense of "we own the document... (more story)

Life insurers are not required to send designation forms to California policyholders whose policies were issued before 2013, when a state law requiring carriers to provide applicants with a form to designate a... (more story)

Nationwide Insurance told a Michigan federal judge that it has no obligation to defend or cover the Oxford Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center and its staff after a 5-year-old boy died there during hyperbaric oxy... (more story)

Insurance companies are using an increasing share of Floridians' homeowners premiums to pay for reinsurance meant to offset their liabilities following a major disaster, according to research from the Brookings Institution.

Insurers needn't defend a telecom company accused of funding terrorist attacks, a behavioral health organization isn't entitled to coverage for a wrongful death settlement, and a reality television exclusion b... (more story)

More than three years after announcing it would no longer sell new homeowners insurance policies in California, State Farm has filed plans to begin writing new policies for Golden State homeowners who have mad... (more story)

An Illinois state court refused to toss an auto repair company's suit seeking to recover $4.9 million in coverage from its cyber insurer for a ransomware attack, saying the policy doesn't establish that the in... (more story)