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September 22, 2026
DENVER — In a unanimous ruling, the Colorado Supreme Court on Sept. 21 answered “no” to a question certified to the court from a federal court asking whether umbrella/excess policies are triggered because payment cannot be collected from the insolvent primary carrier despite an occurrence being otherwise covered, finding that the terms of the umbrella policies do not require that insurer to “step into the shoes of an insolvent, scheduled underlying insurer.”
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September 21, 2026
NEW YORK — Former insurance mogul Greg Lindberg, who is currently serving a 12-year prison term following his guilty plea to conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges related to his $2 billion insurance fraud scheme and his separate conviction on retrial in a case for bribing the North Carolina insurance commissioner, filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) suit in New York federal court against the commissioner, related parties and a law firm, alleging that the defendants participated in a scheme to extract over $165 million in fees from the insurance estates they administer “while methodically destroying billions of dollars in value that Lindberg lawfully built over decades.”
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September 18, 2026
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The director of the South Carolina Department of Insurance (DOI) filed a petition in state court seeking an order appointing him as receiver of Atlantic Coast Life Insurance Co. and its subsidiary and reinsurer, Southern Atlantic Re Inc. (collectively, insurers) for rehabilitation purposes and directing him to take possession of and to administer the insurers’ assets, asserting that the insurers’ “risky” and “improper” investments threaten their ability to make annuity payments for “mostly elderly policyholders.”
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September 17, 2026
MIAMI — The Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) on Sept. 16 filed a motion for a stay of discovery in Florida state court in a breach of contract suit filed against it by an insured whose now-insolvent insurer purportedly failed to cover a claim for wind damage, asserting that discovery should be stayed until the court rules on FIGA’s prior dismissal motion.
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September 16, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — On remand after the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ reversal of the confirmation of an arbitral award in favor of a Dutch insurer in liquidation while remanding the Dutch judgment confirming the award for enforcement under North Carolina law, a magistrate judge issued a docket-only order granting the practitioners’ motion to substitute a trustee.
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September 14, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — Parties involved in a Hurricane Ida coverage dispute on Sept. 11 filed a joint motion to dismiss in a Louisiana federal court, advising the court that they have resolved the dispute among the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), a flood insurer and its insured over the insured’s purported losses from the hurricane.
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September 14, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In Florida state court, the Florida Department of Financial Services as receiver for insolvent insurer American Capital Assurance Corp. (AmCap) filed a response in opposition to a roofing company’s objection to a notice of determination regarding its claim classification, asserting that the department did not make a recommendation as to the value of the claim at issue because there are insufficient funds to pay claims in the company’s classification.
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September 11, 2026
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A governmental risk management pool alleges in a complaint filed in Vermont federal court that for more than 15 years, a member-owned captive reinsurance company misused and misallocated tens of millions of dollars in capital contributions and premium payments by allegedly subsidizing other members’ losses and failing to properly credit the risk pool’s capital accounts, bringing claims for contractual, fiduciary and anticipatory breaches.
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September 11, 2026
MIAMI — A Florida appellate court reversed a lower court’s order enforcing the full settlement amount against the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) for a hurricane damage claim settlement agreed upon between a now-insolvent insurer and an insured, finding that the homeowner failed to meet her burden to show that the settlement did not include attorney fees; the court remanded for a hearing to determine whether a portion of payments to counsel were for attorney fees.
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September 08, 2026
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Florida appellate court reversed a lower court’s final judgment requiring the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) to pay $20,000 for attorney fees pursuant to a settlement between a now-insolvent insurer and an insured’s assignee, finding that the record does not indicate that the obligation to pay $20,000 under the settlement agreement constituted a covered claim under Florida law.
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September 04, 2026
DENVER — Saying there is a lack of “controlling authority to guide the Court’s analysis,” a Colorado federal judge found that retirees lacked standing to bring a putative class case that is part of a wave of pension risk transfer (PRT) challenges; he therefore granted dismissal without prejudice of all the claims in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act case.
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September 01, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on Aug. 31 denied dismissal to a reinsurer and other parties that an insurer accused of improperly depleting a reinsurance trust account by more than $100 million, finding that the insurer has standing to sue because the trust agreement provided it with the right to withdraw trust assets at any time.
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September 01, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A consumer research and advocacy organization appealed a California state court ruling denying its petition for a writ of mandate challenging Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara’s FAIR Plan assessment pass-through bulletins, which the court held did not violate a statute governing the allocation of writings, expenses, profits and losses among FAIR Plan member insurers because the statute does not regulate insurers’ subsequent financial dealings with policyholders.
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August 28, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — The most advanced of the appeals springing from a wave of pension risk transfer (PRT) cases filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is in the Fourth Circuit, where oral argument with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) participating as amicus curiae is scheduled for Sept. 16.
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August 27, 2026
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court’s ruling granting insureds’ motion to enforce a settlement agreement against the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association Inc. (FIGA) in a breach of contract dispute over alleged loss related to hail and wind damage.
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August 25, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — On remand after the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ reversal of the confirmation of an arbitral award in favor of insolvency practitioners for a Dutch insurer in liquidation while leaving open the enforcement of the Dutch judgment confirming the award, the parties filed a joint status report in North Carolina federal court disagreeing on the necessity of additional briefing.
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August 24, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), which was substituted as a defendant after a homeowners insurer’s insolvency, filed its answer and defenses in a Hurricane Zeta coverage dispute, asserting in part that LIGA is responsible only for covered claims pursuant to the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association Law.
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August 21, 2026
SARASOTA, Fla. — After entering into a confidential settlement with the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA), homeowners filed a notice of voluntary dismissal with prejudice in a Florida state court, stating that they were voluntarily dismissing with prejudice their breach of contract action against FIGA.
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August 20, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court reversed and remanded a lower court order denying insureds’ request for attorney fees in their dispute with the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) over coverage for water damage to their condominium, finding that Florida law did not preclude an attorney fee award in the case because FIGA, through its affirmative action, denied part of the insureds’ claim.
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August 17, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — The receiver for Scottish Re (U.S.) Inc. (SRUS), a life insurer in liquidation, recommended that the Delaware Chancery Court approve approximately $171.1 million in 40 positively valued cedent reinsurance claims, along with one claim valued at $0 and another valued at negative $118,981.23.
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August 14, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court panel reversed and remanded a lower court’s order denying a motion by the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA) to enforce a settlement agreement and granting the insureds’ motion to enforce a settlement agreement in a dispute over coverage for purported water damage, finding that the lower court erred in requiring that FIGA “pay the entire settlement amount,” which included the attorney fee portion.
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August 11, 2026
BATON ROUGE, La. — In response to insured homeowners’ motion for partial summary judgment seeking a declaration that the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA) is subject to bad faith penalties for its post-insolvency claims handling in a Hurricane Ida coverage dispute in Louisiana federal court, LIGA urged the court to deny the motion, arguing that LIGA, as a “statutory guaranty association” rather than an insurer, is limited in its obligations “to the payment of covered claims.”
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August 06, 2026
CINCINNATI — In a docket-only entry, an Ohio federal judge vacated an upcoming status conference in a liquidating trustee’s breach of contract suit against an insurer for its alleged failure to pay the full amount owed on a life insurance policy.
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August 03, 2026
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — In a dispute over insurance coverage for water damage, a Florida appellate court affirmed a lower court order granting a motion to enforce a $20,000 settlement against the Florida Insurance Guaranty Association (FIGA), which was substituted as the defendant after the plaintiffs’ homeowners insurer became insolvent.
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July 31, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — In what it called a case of first impression, a New Jersey appellate court affirmed a lower court’s ruling that a liability insurance policy issued to a transportation network company (TNC) is required to provide personal injury protection (PIP) coverage for an uninsured pedestrian injured by a TNC vehicle.