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July 20, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge on July 17 dismissed an insured’s bad faith claim against an auto insurer without prejudice after determining that the insured failed to show that the insurer lacked a reasonable basis for its actions in attempting to settle the insured’s underinsured motorist (UIM) benefits claim.
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July 20, 2026
DALLAS — An insured’s common-law and statutory bad faith claims against a property insurer cannot proceed because the insurer’s denial of coverage for damage to the insured’s roof was not unreasonable, a Texas federal judge said in partially granting the insurer’s motion for summary judgment.
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July 20, 2026
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho federal judge dismissed a bad faith claim without prejudice and with leave to amend after determining that the insured’s amended complaint fails to plead harm not fully compensable by contract damages as required under Idaho law.
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July 16, 2026
NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York denied a motion by Justin Baldoni, a movie studio and its officers to dismiss or stay their management liability insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no duty to provide coverage for a sexual harassment, hostile work environment and retaliation lawsuit that was brought by Blake Lively, rejecting the insureds’ argument that it is “sufficiently more efficient” for the insurer to join a related lawsuit they filed in a California state court against three of their other insurers.
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July 16, 2026
ORLANDO, Fla. — An insured’s breach of contract and bad faith claims against an auto insurer fail because the insurer paid the full value of an appraisal award and, therefore, did not breach the contract, a Florida federal judge said in granting the insurer’s motion for summary judgment.
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July 16, 2026
PECOS, Texas — A Texas federal judge dismissed without prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction a school district’s action against a reinsurer seeking more than $19 million for alleged underpayment of hail-damage benefits, finding that an interlocal self-insurance alliance issued the policy and that the district had no direct contractual or extracontractual right of action against the reinsurer.
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July 14, 2026
TULSA, Okla. — After determining that homeowners incorrectly identified their homeowners insurer in their complaint, an Oklahoma federal judge dismissed an insurer as a defendant and granted the homeowners leave to amend their breach of contract and bad faith complaint to name the correct insurer as the defendant.
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July 14, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals panel on July 13 affirmed a jury’s verdict that an insurer breached its contract, acted in bad faith and owed an insured apartment complex owner punitive damages in a coverage dispute arising from the 2017 Tubbs fire but held that the jury’s $6.5 million punitive damages award is “constitutionally excessive.”
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July 14, 2026
LOS ANGELES — An insured distributor of stone products and countertops claims in a complaint filed in California federal court that its insurer breached its contract and acted in bad faith by relying on its policies’ silica exclusion to deny coverage for the majority of 450 underlying bodily injury suits filed against the insured by individuals who claim that they were injured as a result of exposure to silica and other toxins in the insured’s stone products.
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July 14, 2026
DENVER — Following in camera review of a “Good Faith” training presentation created by an auto insurer’s in-house legal department, a Colorado federal magistrate judge ruled that attorney-client privilege applies and the insurer had not waived that privilege by any unjustified delay or by putting the presentation’s contents at issue when asserting defenses in the suit for underinsured motorist coverage.
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July 13, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A California homeowner sued an insurer and its managing general agency in a California state court, alleging that they delayed and underpaid a covered plumbing loss claim, refused demolition and mitigation expenses that led to a $17,454.10 contractor suit and handled the claim under a reinsurance and profit-sharing structure that gave the agency a financial interest in reducing claim payments.
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July 09, 2026
MUSKOGEE, Okla. — A federal magistrate judge in Oklahoma granted an insurer’s motion for summary judgment in a contractor’s action alleging breach of good faith and fair dealing after the insurer denied coverage for an underlying water damage arising from the contractor’s roof work, finding that an open structure water damage exclusion precluded coverage.
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July 09, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A domestic insurer filed a petition for a writ of certiorari urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that it says “cemented” a circuit split over the law applicable to enforcement of arbitration agreements with nonsignatories based on equitable estoppel by holding that arbitration of its dispute with an insured over a claim for hurricane damages and bad faith was barred under Louisiana law.
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July 08, 2026
DALLAS — A Texas federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of a property insurer after determining that the insured failed to show that coverage is owed for water damage in his home and failed to show that the insurer’s denial of coverage was not reasonable.
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July 07, 2026
DALLAS — A federal judge in Texas denied a motion to alter or amend a judgment dismissing claims for promissory estoppel, bad faith and violations of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) filed by a third-party claimant against the insurer of another vehicle involved in a multivehicle collision.
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July 01, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A third-party bad faith claim against an auto insurer can proceed because each of the plaintiffs has standing to sue as they are standing in the shoes of the insured, who was exposed to an excess judgment following the insurer’s failure to settle the plaintiffs’ claims within the policy limits, a Florida federal judge said in denying the auto insurer’s motion for judgment on the pleadings.
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June 30, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — A federal judge in New Jersey granted an insurer’s motion to dismiss an insured’s action against it after the insurer denied coverage for an underlying suit related to the insured’s architectural work, finding that the policy covered claims arising from the insured’s prior work only if the insured had previously had continuous insurance coverage, and the insured had been without coverage for three months before purchasing the subject policy.
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June 30, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — Severing a bad faith claim from a breach of contract claim until the coverage issue is resolved in a dispute over fire damage to a residential property is not warranted because the breach of contract and bad faith claims are based on the insurer’s denial of coverage, a New Jersey federal magistrate judge said in denying the homeowners insurer’s motion to sever.
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June 30, 2026
PADUCAH, Ky. — A ferrosilicon producer in a pollution cleanup coverage dispute filed its third summary judgment motion, opposing a reinsurer’s bid for dismissal and arguing that the contractual record establishes that the reinsurer assumed an insurer’s liabilities under a pollution legal liability policy and cannot avoid the suit by relying on an affidavit addressing discovery-barred topics or on inapposite reinsurance authority.
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June 29, 2026
ATLANTA— An insured and its insurer told a federal court in Georgia that they have reached a settlement in principle of the insured’s breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit seeking cyber defense coverage for putative class actions brought as a result of a 2024 data breach.
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June 26, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge granted a reinsurer’s cross-motion to confirm a final arbitration award and denied an intergovernmental risk pool’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) vacatur petition in a dispute over a $9.2 million catastrophic injury settlement, holding that the arbitration panel did not manifestly disregard reinsurance, settlement or contract law in finding that the risk pool acted in bad faith and that its challenges largely sought impermissible review of the panel’s factual findings and contract interpretation.
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June 24, 2026
HOUSTON — A Texas appeals panel affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a lawsuit seeking coverage for missing wine bottles that were stored in wine lockers at the insured’s club, ruling that the policies do not provide coverage for third parties who secured a $1,110,411.70 judgment against the insured and the right to enforce coverage.
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June 23, 2026
CINCINNATI — A property owner is asking the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals not to grant its insurers’ petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc after a panel held that the insurers owed the property owner coverage for a fire that burned down a building during renovations, arguing that in Ohio, insurance provisions that result in forfeiture require a showing of prejudice.
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June 23, 2026
OWENSBORO, Ky. — A breach of contract claim will proceed against a homeowners insurer because questions of fact exist on whether damage to the foundation of an insured home was preexisting damage and, therefore, excluded under the policy, a Kentucky federal judge said in denying the insurer’s motion for summary judgment on the breach of contract claim.
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June 22, 2026
SCRANTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania federal judge dismissed an insured’s claims for statutory bad faith and fraud and misrepresentation alleged against an auto insurer for a second time after determining that the insured’s amended complaint fails to contain sufficient allegations to support the claims.