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October 19, 2026
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A reinsurance broker has moved to dismiss claims brought against it by a health care system in a dispute over more than $7.6 million in denied excess-of-loss reinsurance claims, arguing that the parties’ claims service agreement precludes contractual liability and that the remaining claims are legally deficient or duplicative.
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October 19, 2026
PHOENIX — A commercial insurer filed a complaint in an Arizona federal court seeking rescission and a declaration that a commercial general liability policy issued to a purported carpentry remodeling company is void, asserting that the insurer would not have issued the policy had it known the true nature of its insured’s business.
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October 19, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — An automotive parts manufacturer insured on Oct. 16 appealed a North Carolina federal judge’s summary judgment ruling that dismissed with prejudice its breach of contract, bad faith and unfair and deceptive trade practices lawsuit seeking coverage for its losses caused by the “presence of COVID-19” at its facilities.
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October 19, 2026
BOSTON — Arguing in her opening brief that the trial court’s ruling presents “questions of first impression in this Circuit” concerning two amended regulatory requirements, a claimant asked the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reinstate her long-term disability (LTD) benefits or direct the insurer to reconsider her claim.
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October 16, 2026
SHERMAN, Texas — A commercial general liability insurer filed a complaint in Texas federal court, seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify insureds for the release of a toxic chemical from an insured facility because its policy’s pollution exclusion applies as a bar to coverage.
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October 14, 2026
SEATTLE — A senior care liability insurer seeks reconsideration of a Washington federal court’s denial of cross-motions for partial summary judgment on an assignee’s breach of contract counterclaim in its lawsuit seeking a declaration that it has no further duty to defend or indemnify its insured against an underlying negligence and abuse action that resulted in a $4.2 million settlement, asserting that the court erred by failing to consider evidence that it suffered actual prejudice when the insured settled the case and assigned policy rights without the insurer’s consent.
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October 14, 2026
RALEIGH, N.C. — An attorney told a North Carolina federal court that he did not properly verify his homeowners insurer client’s corporate status and citizenship before filing the insurer’s lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to defend and indemnify in an underlying action accusing an unemancipated minor of going on a shooting rampage that killed several people in a Raleigh neighborhood, asserting in a reply brief in support of a motion for voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit without prejudice that he did not intend to deceive the court.
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October 13, 2026
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Primary and umbrella insurers filed suit in a Virginia federal court seeking a declaration that they have no duty to defend or indemnify their insured, a stone product supplier, against underlying silica bodily injury suits because their policies’ exclusions for silica and pollution bar coverage.
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October 08, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Insureds sued their homeowners insurer for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL), alleging that the insurer, in concert with environmental consulting and testing companies, directed an investigation into their Palisades Wildfire claim “that repeatedly narrowed the scope of testing, ignored evidence of contamination in concealed and exterior areas, and proposed piecemeal remediation that could not restore the Property to its pre-loss condition.”
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October 08, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — Insurers and Baltimore County, Md., appealed to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a Maryland federal judge’s ruling that granted in part and denied in part a motion for judgment on the pleadings by the owner and technical manager of the ship that allided with and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in 2024, a ruling that significantly narrowed the scope of the purely economic loss claims that will proceed in the movants’ exoneration lawsuit.
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October 07, 2026
EL PASO, Texas — A commercial general liability insurer filed an amended motion for summary judgment, correcting its failure to attach the applicable policy to its original motion and reiterating its argument that its policy’s total pollution exclusion bars coverage for an underlying carbon monoxide poisoning suit.
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October 07, 2026
CLEVELAND — Two umbrella insurers on Oct. 6 filed a notice of cross-appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals following an Ohio federal judge’s determination that the insurers lack standing as no coverage dispute exists based on the finding that the primary insurer has no duty to defend or indemnify the insured in underlying lawsuits stemming from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
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October 07, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A captive insurance program operator and reinsurer sued a technology startup company in the Delaware Chancery Court, alleging that the company, which established a captive program to provide automobile insurance coverage for customers using its car rental and car-sharing platform, breached its contractual obligations by failing to pay more than $36 million in capital contributions and other amounts demanded to fund growing claims under the program.
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September 29, 2026
EL PASO, Texas — A commercial general liability insurer’s motion for summary judgment must be denied because the insurer failed to attach the correct insurance policy to its motion and because the insurer’s hostile fire exception to the pollution exclusion may operate to provide coverage for an underlying carbon monoxide poisoning suit filed against the insureds, the underlying plaintiff says in a Sept. 28 response to the insurer’s motion.
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September 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — An insurer filed a notice of appeal on Sept. 28 to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals following a California federal judge’s ruling that a pollution exclusion does not relieve the insurer of its duty to defend its insured against an underlying personal injury suit stemming from a claimant’s exposure to hydrogen sulfide gas.
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September 29, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — The secretary of Agriculture and the administrator of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) moved for summary judgment in a Minnesota federal court dispute brought by dry bean farmers challenging the Federal Crop Insurance Corp.’s (FCIC) 2023 reapproval of a revenue-protection policy’s contingency pricing methodology, arguing that the agency acted reasonably and not arbitrarily or capriciously because it obtained expert review and concluded that the coverage was actuarially sound and protective of producers’ interests.
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September 29, 2026
SEATTLE — Commercial and umbrella liability insurers filed a declaratory judgment complaint in a Washington federal court, alleging they have no duty to defend or indemnify their mutual insured against an underlying class action lawsuit alleging that it violated the Washington Commercial Electronic Mail Act (CEMA) by repeatedly sending emails to consumers with false or misleading end dates of promotional sales for its products in the subject line.
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September 29, 2026
LANSING, Mich. — Underlying plaintiffs who filed two class action lawsuits seeking damages caused by lead-contaminated water supplied by a city argue that the city’s insurers have a duty to defend and indemnify the city for a $25 million consent settlement reached in the underlying class action suits because the insurers cannot dispute that the settlement between the city and the underlying plaintiffs was “reasonable and in good faith,” the underlying plaintiffs say in support of a motion for summary judgment filed in Michigan federal court.
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September 29, 2026
SALEM, Ore. — Review of an Oregon appellate court’s allocation of coverage damages in a contribution coverage dispute between primary and excess insurers over environmental contamination costs incurred by the insureds is not warranted because the appellate court correctly applied the plain language of Oregon’s independent counsel statute and the primary insurer does not dispute the interpretation, a settling insurer says in response to the primary insurer’s petition for review filed in the Oregon Supreme Court.
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September 28, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The Internal Revenue Service asked the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to stay briefing in a tax firm’s Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenge to the agency’s final microcaptive insurance disclosure rule pending resolution of a related appeal involving the same regulations, arguing that the earlier-filed appeal could narrow or moot issues in the present case and avoid duplicative briefing and argument.
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September 25, 2026
CLEVELAND — Following an Ohio federal judge’s finding that an occupational disease exclusion relieves a primary insurer of its duty to defend or indemnify its insured in underlying lawsuits stemming from exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), the insured filed a notice of appeal to the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.
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September 25, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A trustee for a bankruptcy trust on Sept. 24 filed a notice of appeal of a Pennsylvania federal judge’s grant of excess insurers’ motion for summary judgment on bellwether insurance coverage issues as applied to a bankrupt pharmaceutical company insured’s liability for injury claims related to transvaginal surgical mesh products.
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September 25, 2026
ATLANTA — An Atlanta property owner and a commercial general liability insurer reported to a Georgia federal court that they participated in mediation but were unable to resolve the property owner’s breach of contract and declaratory relief lawsuit alleging the insurer has a duty to pay more than $250,000 in attorney fees the insured has incurred in defending against an underlying personal injury lawsuit arising from a shooting that occurred during the filming of a music video.
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September 25, 2026
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A health plan sued its former reinsurance broker and excess-of-loss reinsurer in a California federal court, alleging that the broker improperly characterized more than $7.6 million in long-term acute care (LTAC) claims as noncovered rehabilitation services and that the reinsurer relied on those representations to deny coverage under the 2024 policy.
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September 25, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A limited liability company has appealed to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a federal judge in California’s rulings that disposed of its bad faith and related claims against its insurer and limited its recovery of prejudgment interest in a dispute over coverage for water damage to an apartment building.