Insurance Pros Size Up Top D&O Risks At NYC Conference
Law360 Insurance Authority has the top takeaways and coverage considerations from the annual conference hosted by Anderson Kill PC.
Insurance Industry Still On Alert After Tariff Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs was an overall positive for the insurance industry. Experts say elevated prices could still lead to higher claims costs and premiums.
Haynes Boone Atty Talks Rising Securities Settlements
Carrie DiCanio of Haynes Boone's insurance recovery practice spoke with Law360 Insurance Authority about the insurance considerations in securities class actions and a recent report showing settlements rose in 2025.
Property More
Westchester Surplus Lines Insurance Co. and multiple Florida homeowners associations have ended their dispute in Florida federal court over the associations' more than $230 million insurance claim for Pensacol... (more story)
An insurer said an auto parts manufacturer can't get $50 million in coverage for COVID-19 losses, telling a North Carolina federal court the company concealed that an employee's positive test result was false ... (more story)
An insurer said in Colorado federal court Friday that the Denver-area homeowners association accusing it of delaying and not properly covering losses following a hailstorm hasn't proved that the claimed damage... (more story)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan’s lawsuit seeking $95 million in coverage for a recently settled whistleblower action raises an important challenge to policy language that limits coverage for claims related to r... (more story)
A North Carolina church is entitled to $1.1 million in coverage for a roof damage claim, a semiconductor manufacturer was owed a defense against an employee's birth defect suit, and a CNA unit need not defend ... (more story)
An AIG unit can't escape a Florida condominium association's suit seeking $3.8 million for plumbing damage, a federal court ruled, saying there is a factual dispute regarding whether the insurer was prejudiced... (more story)
The Fourth Circuit affirmed a North Carolina federal jury's $1.1 million award to a church for a roof damage claim, rejecting arguments from the church's insurer that the court adopted the wrong causation stan... (more story)
An industrial services contractor and its insurer must defend a synthetic rubber manufacturer in an underlying personal injury suit accusing the company of negligently maintaining a pipe that broke and severel... (more story)
The Texas Supreme Court on “windstorms,” the Fourth Circuit on a construction company settlement, and a split Fifth Circuit backs State Farm in a sewage damage dispute. Law360 looks at the past week's top insurance news.
An Indiana federal court’s recent Cloudbusters v. Tinsley ruling underscores the often-misunderstood principle that Rule 408 of the Federal Rules of Evidence does not bar parties from referencing prior settlem... (more story)
General Liability More
An excess insurer must cover part of an $8 million judgment entered against Terminix in a pesticide exposure suit, the Ninth Circuit said Tuesday, affirming that the underlying injury arose out of Terminix's p... (more story)
A construction manager's suit seeking coverage for a $6 million construction defect dispute may proceed after a New York federal court found there were fact issues concerning the company's status as an additio... (more story)
A New Jersey cannabis dispensary depository can challenge an insurer's bid to deny coverage for a $9.5 million judgment against an armored car cash delivery service for an ex-employee's alleged embezzlement, a... (more story)
Eleven states pursuing a False Claims Act case against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals over what they say were inflated reimbursements for an eye drug can't block counterclaims by the drugmaker on sovereign immunity... (more story)
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions and 12-year prison sentence of a Michigan doctor accused of operating a cash-only "pill mill" that wrote thousands of opioid prescriptions, holding that the trial jud... (more story)
A group of insurers have no duty to defend Meta Platforms Inc. against thousands of lawsuits accusing the social media giant of designing its platforms to be addictive to adolescents, a Delaware state court ru... (more story)
An insurer for a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel was entitled to rescind its policy after the hotel was sued in connection with the fatal shooting of a guest by a security guard, a New York federal court ruled, saying ... (more story)
An Ohio woman sued Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in federal court Friday, alleging that the insurer wrongly denied her life insurance claim because her late husband used kratom, even though kratom is not... (more story)
A Tokio Marine unit has no duty to defend or indemnify a sporting goods store and its former chief executive officer from underlying litigation by high school students alleging that he sexually exploited them ... (more story)
A Louisiana federal court should not dismiss a suit by a Progressive unit asserting it has no duty to defend or indemnify a nail salon for claims stemming from a fatal shooting, a magistrate judge recommended,... (more story)
Specialty Lines More
A professional liability insurer does not have to defend the law firm that secured a $213 million award for the woman at the center of the documentary "Take Care of Maya" in a dispute over trial consultant fee... (more story)
A cyber insurer can't rely on a ransomware endorsement to limit Cicis Pizza's claim for coverage of a cyber extortion event to $250,000, a Texas federal court has ruled, saying the policy's $3 million limits a... (more story)
A North Carolina law firm has sued its insurers over coverage for nearly $130,000 it lost as a result of a forged cashier's check and related wire transfer, saying the carriers wrongfully denied coverage despi... (more story)
A commercial general liability insurer had a duty to defend a semiconductor manufacturer against an employee's suit claiming that his exposure to chemicals at work caused birth defects in his son, the Ninth Ci... (more story)
A recent Florida federal court decision highlights an often-overlooked risk for those negotiating directors and officers insurance coverage for mergers and acquisitions: the potential for so-called straddle cl... (more story)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan sued Chubb and other insurers in California federal court Friday seeking to tap $95 million in directors and officers liability coverage for a recently settled whistleblower actio... (more story)
Alcoa USA Corp. is looking to erase its retirees' win in a class action that claimed the aluminum manufacturer illegally cut off their life insurance benefits, telling the Seventh Circuit that the retirees owe... (more story)
The Fourth Circuit's recent decision in favor of the insurer in Navigators Insurance v. Under Armour highlights how plain-text policy interpretation protects party autonomy and improves predictability to the b... (more story)
The delayed disclosure of thousands of documents has created "a lot of prejudice" against McCarter & English as it fights a $22.5 million professional malpractice lawsuit, and the impending trial must be pushe... (more story)
A Delaware state judge has found that Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. must fund the defense of an agricultural chemical company in six suits alleging that a chemical made by its predecessors gave users Parki... (more story)