6th Circuit Affirms Collateral Estoppel Ruling In Dispute Over Defense Costs

( November 11, 2025, 7:37 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — The Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that an insurer was collaterally estopped from relitigating whether defense costs were payable outside defined policy limits, holding that the issue was fully adjudicated in prior arbitration and that the absence of mutuality did not preclude application of collateral estoppel....