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July 28, 2026
CHICAGO — An airline and its excess insurer filed two separate complaints in an Illinois federal court within one day of each other, arguing over excess cyber liability coverage for the July 2024 CrowdStrike outage that the insured argued forced it to cancel more than 1,600 flights and inflicted tens of millions of dollars in business interruption losses.
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July 24, 2026
BOSTON — Asking the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reverse a ruling that a former attorney is entitled to ongoing long-term disability (LTD) benefits, an insurer argues that its termination decision was not arbitrary and capricious and should have been upheld because the attorney “failed to provide any objective proof of limitations which would prevent her from performing the material duties of her Regular Occupation.”
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July 24, 2026
MIAMI — A design-build contractor filed objections to the report and recommendation of a a federal magistrate judge in Florida, agreeing that its excess insurers’ motion to dismiss the contractor’s breach of contract complaint over coverage for faulty bridge design calculations should be denied but arguing that the parties should not be compelled to participate in the alternative dispute resolution (ADR) process required by the lead excess insurance policy’s limitation of liability endorsement before proceeding with litigation.
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July 24, 2026
SCRANTON, Pa. — An insurer argued in a reply supporting its second motion for summary judgment that a federal court in Pennsylvania’s earlier ruling in a water damage coverage dispute did not address the policy’s suit requirement or the applicability of policy exclusions. The case was brought by a modular apartment unit manufacturer for water damage allegedly caused by its subcontractor’s work.
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July 24, 2026
RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A general contractor and an insurer filed a joint stipulation to dismiss the contractor’s complaint against the insurer for breach of contract over the insurer’s denial of the contractor’s claims for coverage and a defense in homeowners’ underlying suit against it alleging that their home incurred water intrusion.
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July 23, 2026
BATON ROUGE, La. — Insured homeowners filed a motion for partial summary judgment in a Louisiana federal court in a Hurricane Ida coverage dispute with the Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association (LIGA), asserting that “LIGA is subject to bad-faith penalties for its own post-insolvency claims-handling conduct.”
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July 22, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — In an insured’s dispute with his lender over its alleged failure to endorse settlement checks as an additional payee in a hurricane coverage dispute involving a now-insolvent insurer, the insured on July 21 filed a brief in Louisiana federal court opposing the lender’s renewed motion to dismiss and request for reconsideration of a previous ruling in a putative class suit, asserting that the lender incorrectly maintains that the insured did not incur an injury.
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July 21, 2026
LOS ANGELES — In support of its argument that an interlocutory appeal is not warranted in a silica exposure coverage dispute, an insured filed a notice of supplemental authority, asking a California federal judge to take notice of a recent decision in a similar silica exposure coverage suit in which a judge denied an insurer’s motion for certification of interlocutory appeal.
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July 21, 2026
HARRISBURG, Pa. — No coverage is owed for an underlying bodily injury suit arising out of toxic mold exposure in an insured apartment because a policy’s fungi and bacteria exclusion and pollution exclusion bar coverage for the suit filed against the insureds who operated an apartment complex where the underlying plaintiffs were allegedly exposed, an insurer says in a complaint filed in Pennsylvania federal court.
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July 21, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — A professional liability insurer filed suit in a North Carolina federal court, seeking a declaration that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a law firm insured and its attorney against underlying allegations that they misappropriated client funds.
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July 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Claiming that policies it issued to insurance intermediaries exclude claims involving the return of commissions or premiums, an insurer seeks judgment in a California federal court declaring that it has no obligation to defend or indemnify the intermediaries in litigation in which several reinsurers claim that the intermediaries improperly retained commissions and fees from premiums.
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July 17, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A group of domestic insurers filed the third petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling affirming the denial of a motion to compel arbitration of a dispute over damage from a Louisiana hurricane under a state law barring arbitration of such disputes, asking the court to find that the Fifth Circuit applied the wrong law to their equitable estoppel argument under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the New York Convention).
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July 17, 2026
NEWARK, N.J. — A nonparty who purchased life insurance policies from plaintiff Columbus Life Insurance Co. filed a motion in New Jersey federal court to quash subpoenas issued by the insurer for the nonparty’s bank records and personal records in a suit alleging violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), fraud, tortious interference and unjust enrichment, arguing that the subpoenas “are overbroad, impose undue burdens, and seek highly sensitive financial information.”
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July 16, 2026
MIAMI — A former accountant sued Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, the insurer and claims administrator of his long-term disability (LTD) insurance policy, in a Florida federal court, asserting that he is entitled to benefits under his LTD policy retroactive to the day the insurer ended benefits for his alleged disability related to long COVID, as well as other conditions, including headaches and brain fog, that have prevented him from working as an accountant since May 2023.
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July 16, 2026
BALTIMORE — Maryland’s comptroller removed to a Maryland federal court a whistleblower’s petition seeking mandamus and declaratory relief requiring the comptroller to treat premium receipts tax recoveries arising from captive insurance arrangements, including certain transactions involving reinsurance, as covered related actions, pay the whistleblower a 15% to 30% award and promulgate regulations governing the state’s Whistleblower Reward Program.
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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 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
WILMINGTON, Del. — The receiver for Scottish Re (U.S.) Inc. (SRUS), a life reinsurer in liquidation, cross-moved in the Delaware Chancery Court for declaratory relief concerning an insurer’s asserted right to $63.3 million in trust funds, arguing that a trust agreement between SRUS and the insurer terminated in 2023 and left the funds as unencumbered assets of the liquidation estate.
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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 07, 2026
PALM BEACH, Fla. — An insurer’s suit seeking a declaration that no coverage is owed for damages caused by the rupture of a sewage pipe should be dismissed or stayed until the underlying suit filed against the insureds arising from the pipe’s rupture is resolved, an additional insured argues in a motion to dismiss filed in Florida federal court.
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July 06, 2026
LAS VEGAS — A commercial crime insurer filed suit in a Nevada federal court seeking a declaratory judgment that it has no duty to indemnify an insured for its alleged $106,184,673 loss arising from a commission scheme by two of its former directors and officers involving the sale of COVID-19 test kits, further asserting that it may rescind the insurance policy based on the insured’s misrepresentation of a material fact regarding its knowledge of the scheme in the policy application.
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July 02, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — GEICO filed a complaint in Florida federal court against a chiropractor, his practices and related individuals and entities, seeking to recover more than $3 million it alleges the defendants “wrongfully obtained from GEICO by submitting thousands of fraudulent and unlawful no-fault (‘no-fault’, ‘personal injury protection’, or ‘PIP’) insurance charges.”
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July 01, 2026
NEWNAN, Ga. — A professional liability insurer filed suit in a federal court in Georgia seeking a declaratory judgment that it owes no coverage for an underlying legal malpractice lawsuit brought against its law firm and attorney insureds.
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July 01, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A life and health insurer moved in the Delaware Chancery Court for an order lifting portions of an injunction entered in the liquidation of Scottish Re (U.S.) Inc. (SRUS), seeking access to $63,381,936 held in a trust that the insurer says secures undisputed, unpaid claims owed by SRUS, which was placed into rehabilitation in March 2019.
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July 01, 2026
OKLAHOMA CITY — An insurer sued its program administrator in Oklahoma federal court, alleging that the administrator wrongfully retained more than $17 million in commissions and other funds collected through a commercial and non-commercial automobile liability insurance program despite contractual provisions requiring premium funds to be held in trust for the insurer and commissions to be adjusted under a mandatory sliding-scale formula.