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April 30, 2026
As of April 29, at least two federal courts have dismissed suits filed by insurers alleging fraud in the arbitration process created by the No Surprises Act (NSA), rejecting the insurers’ bids to impose judicial review over the administrative arbitration process established by Congress when it enacted the NSA.
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April 29, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a docket-only entry, a North Carolina federal court issued a notice setting a sentencing date of May 26 in criminal cases against insurance magnate Greg Lindberg in which he pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy related to his $2 billion scheme to defraud insurers and policyholders and was convicted on retrial in a related criminal proceeding for bribing the North Carolina insurance commissioner.
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April 29, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge granted summary judgment to an insurer and denied partial summary judgment to a securities intermediary in a dispute over death benefits and insurance premium payments on a $10 million life insurance policy, finding that the stranger-oriented life insurance (STOLI) policy is void as lacking an insurable interest.
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April 28, 2026
DETROIT — A Michigan appellate court panel reversed and remanded a lower court ruling granting summary disposition for an insurer in its suit seeking a declaratory judgment that the rescission of an auto insurance policy for material misrepresentations was appropriate, finding that though there is no dispute that the misrepresentations regarding the ownership of a truck insured under the policy constituted fraud, the insurer failed to exercise due diligence and could have discovered the vehicle’s true ownership prior to a fatal drunken driving accident involving the truck.
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April 27, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge denied a motion to file an interlocutory appeal by the purported beneficiary of a life insurance policy after the court denied summary judgment to the beneficiary and granted partial summary judgment to the insurer, finding “that an interlocutory appeal is unwarranted” in part because questions of law regarding New Jersey’s incontestability doctrine and consumer fraud statute are not controlling for purposes of an interlocutory appeal.
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April 23, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey federal judge on April 22 dismissed without prejudice a qui tam suit alleging violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) related to a kickback scheme involving a transportation service and its owners who purportedly referred insured employees to a lab for COVID-19 testing that was billed to an uninsured government program, finding that the complaint lacks facts regarding the knowledge of the service and its owners about eligibility under the program.
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April 21, 2026
DETROIT — A Michigan appellate court for the second time reversed and remanded a trial court’s dismissal for failure to post a $5,000 security bond in a personal injury protection (PIP) auto insurance coverage dispute, finding that on remand, the trial court “failed to articulate any rationale supporting the amount of the security bond considering plaintiff’s uncontested indigence.”
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April 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on April 17 vacated and remanded a lower court order granting summary judgment to a health system and a supervisor in a qui tam suit filed by a physician and a manager who alleged violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) and related state law for fraudulent billing to Medicaid, finding that though the lower court determined that expressing concerns about purported fraudulent billing was a protected activity under the FCA, the court erred in holding that the physician did not establish a dispute regarding the retaliation against him because of the protected activity.
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April 17, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge denied a motion for attorney fees filed by a cardiology practice in a qui tam suit alleging that the practice and physicians violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and related North Carolina law by billing government insurers for unnecessary cardiac catheterizations, finding the assertion by the United States and North Carolina that the defendants submitted false claims for procedures that were not medically necessary and with disregard for the truth “substantially justified.”
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April 16, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. — In a breach of contract dispute between insurers in liquidation or rehabilitation and their former owner, insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, and related parties, a North Carolina appellate panel on April 15 dismissed an appeal by nonparties seeking review of a trial court’s interlocutory show cause order regarding why the nonparties should not be held in civil contempt for allegedly transferring assets in violation of a temporary restraining order (TRO), finding that the nonparties failed to show that the order was immediately appealable.
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April 15, 2026
CINCINNATI — An Ohio federal judge granted default judgment to Columbus Life Insurance Co. in its suit seeking a declaratory judgment that a $500,000 insurance policy it issued is void due to the insured’s purported misrepresentations in the policy application, finding that the insurer is entitled to default judgment due in part to the insured’s failure to abide by court-imposed conditions to file a brief out of time and that the policy is void because it lacked an insurable interest due to the alleged misrepresentations.
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April 14, 2026
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Pursuant to a North Carolina federal court order staying the case until sentencings in related criminal proceedings, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, his advisory services company and its former executive filed a joint status report in the SEC’s suit accusing Lindberg and related parties of defrauding clients out of more than $75 million.
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April 14, 2026
NEW YORK — Federal Express Corp. (FedEx) sued legal and medical providers in a New York federal court, alleging that they participated in a “swoop-and-squat” or “sideswipe” scheme, a scheme that specifically targets delivery trucks due to their higher insurance policy limits to deliberately sideswipe or rear-end them, “stage or exaggerate accidents, fabricate injuries” and use “falsified medical documentation to inflate claims.”
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April 09, 2026
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina federal judge granted the parties’ joint motion to bifurcate the sentencing hearing in criminal cases against insurance magnate Greg Lindberg in which he is awaiting sentence and restitution decisions after pleading guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy related to his $2 billion scheme to defraud insurers and policyholders and after being convicted on retrial in a related criminal proceeding for bribing the North Carolina insurance commissioner.
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April 08, 2026
TAMPA, Fla. — A Florida federal judge on April 7 dismissed without prejudice a negligent investigation claim against the Florida Department of Financial Services (DFS) in a suit filed against it and a DFS law enforcement officer by a roofing salesman alleging that the salesman was wrongfully prosecuted for insurance fraud in a case that was later nolle prossed, finding that the plaintiff failed to assert facts that DFS owed a special tort duty to him and that the allegation related to failure to conduct a diligent investigation “is conclusory.”
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April 08, 2026
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee federal judge affirmed a magistrate judge’s ruling denying a motion for protective order by medical staffing companies in a suit filed by UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. and related entities alleging that the staffing companies were “upcoding” claims, resulting in millions of dollars in overpayment, finding that the magistrate judge did not err in determining that the companies failed to show that the audit documents at issue should be protected under attorney-client privilege.
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April 07, 2026
SEATTLE — A manufacturer that, along with its insurance company, settled a personal injury lawsuit cannot assign its rights to an alleged legal malpractice claim to its insurer, a Washington appeals panel held April 6 in answering a certified question, finding that there is a potential conflict between the insured and the insurer after the insurer defended the insured pursuant to a reservation of rights to deny coverage.
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April 07, 2026
LAKE CHARLES, La. — A Louisiana federal judge granted a dismissal motion filed by opioid treatment clinics in a relator’s qui tam suit alleging that they violated the False Claims Act (FCA) and related state law in part by failing to provide adequate therapy services due to staffing inadequacies and submitting bills to government insurers for alleged fraudulent therapy sessions related to purported inaccurate billing, finding in part that the relator failed to plead violations of the FCA “with particularity” as required by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
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April 06, 2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee federal judge granted the U.S. government’s motion to amend its complaint in intervention in a suit accusing pain clinics and related parties of violating the False Claims Act (FCA) by billing government insurers for medically unnecessary testing, finding that the defendants failed to show that they would be prejudiced by the court granting the government’s motion or that the motion was made in bad faith.
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April 03, 2026
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A commercial general liability insurer filed a declaratory judgment suit in a New York federal court against its insured, seeking to rescind two commercial policies and asking the court to declare that it does not owe a duty to defend or indemnify the insured or anyone else involved in any underlying litigation related to the construction of sidewalk sheds due to the insured’s purported misrepresentations in insurance applications regarding the type of work it does.
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April 02, 2026
CHICAGO — An Illinois appellate court affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of an insurer’s suit seeking a declaration that it did not owe coverage beyond the $25,000 policy limits to its insured, who was involved in an auto accident, ruling that the lower court was correct in finding that the insurer’s alleged bad faith liability regarding past conduct, which relates to a separate bad faith suit, “was more properly considered in the bad faith action.”
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April 02, 2026
CHICAGO — Eli Lilly & Co. urges the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that affirmed a final judgment of $193 million for a qui tam relator who sued Lilly for reporting falsely deflated drug prices to the government in order to profit off of drug rebate programs, arguing in a petition for a writ of certiorari that the case “vividly illustrates the real-world problems with the . . . qui tam regime” under the False Claims Act (FCA).
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April 01, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A California federal judge granted an insurer’s motion for default judgment in its declaratory judgment suit against its insured related to underlying wrongful death litigation, finding that under the policy’s business description endorsement, the insurer has no duty to defend and indemnify in the underlying suit and that rescission is appropriate because of “the material misrepresentations” in the insured’s application for insurance.
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April 01, 2026
KEY WEST, Fla. — One day after a Florida federal judge issued an order regarding the procedure to file for default final judgment, a general liability insurer on March 31 filed a motion for default final judgment against a boat crew member in the insurer’s suit seeking a policy rescission for alleged material misrepresentations in a policy renewal application and a declaration that it does not have a duty to defend or indemnify in an underlying negligence action related to a parasailing accident.
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March 31, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge dismissed a suit filed by former insurance mogul Greg Lindberg seeking to compel arbitration to offset claims under an equity purchase agreement (EPA) between an investment company he once owned and sellers who sold their ownership interests in health care and pharmaceutical companies to his investment company, finding that the court lacks personal jurisdiction over any out-of-state defendants, that there is no valid claim for offset and that Lindberg lacks standing to assert claims on behalf of the investment company.