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May 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A food-processing company filed a notice of appeal in a New York federal court, appealing to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals the New York court’s denial of its petition to vacate a confidential reinsurance arbitration award and grant of a reinsurer’s cross-motion to confirm the award in a dispute arising from a fire at a poultry rendering facility in Alabama.
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May 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York state justice granted three bank defendants only partial dismissal of a segregated accounts insurer’s amended complaint arising from the Vesttoo Ltd. letter of credit reinsurance scheme, dismissing a negligence claim as duplicative but allowing fraud, misrepresentation and negligent supervision claims to proceed based on allegations that the insurer had standing and sufficiently pleaded liability, reliance and notice tied to allegedly fraudulent letters of credit used in reinsurance transactions.
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May 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge issued letters rogatory allowing two vendors to seek overseas discovery in the United Kingdom from personnel of a dismissed insurance broker in connection with the vendors’ remaining negligence claims against another broker over political violence coverage and reinsurance allegedly procured for a 1.3 million-square-foot warehouse in Afghanistan that the Taliban seized in 2021.
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May 12, 2026
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut state judge ruled that no oral argument is needed on a motion to intervene filed in the rehabilitation proceedings for PHL Variable Insurance Co. by a group of policyholders seeking limited intervention to pursue, or obtain authority to pursue, potential claims against entities formerly affiliated with PHL through its pre-rehabilitation corporate structure on behalf of PHL’s estate, ordering that the motion and the rehabilitator’s objection will be decided “on the papers.”
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May 08, 2026
NEW YORK — A reinsurer filed a notice of supplemental authority urging a New York federal court to confirm two arbitration awards and reject an intergovernmental risk pool’s Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) vacatur challenge, arguing that recent reinsurance arbitration rulings involving comparable arbitration provisions held that arbitral reliance on insurance and reinsurance custom and practice, rather than rules of law, does not establish a basis for vacatur.
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May 08, 2026
DALLAS — A Texas federal judge dismissed without prejudice an amended putative class action complaint filed under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) challenging a retirement plan’s use of a Prudential Guaranteed Income Fund in its 401(k) plan, holding that the plaintiffs failed to plausibly allege fiduciary imprudence because they failed to connect the retirement plan’s offshore reinsurance arrangements, low surplus-to-liabilities ratios and allegedly underperforming crediting rates to deficiencies in the fiduciary decision-making process.
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May 06, 2026
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A North Carolina federal magistrate judge lifted a stay in a tobacco farmer’s suit against his crop insurer and ordered him to show cause why the case should not be dismissed after the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied his request for a Federal Crop Insurance Corp. (FCIC) noncompliance determination.
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May 06, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — Former executives and engineers of a group of insurance technology companies moved to dismiss a Delaware state court complaint, arguing that their former employers’ claims arising from allegations that they used confidential information to launch a competing reinsurance venture should be rejected for lack of personal jurisdiction, improper venue and failure to state a claim.
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May 05, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The United States of America filed a statement of interest in a lawsuit filed by California homeowners affected by the Los Angeles wildfires against their insurers for violations of the state’s Cartwright Act and unfair competition law (UCL), negligence and fraud, noting that although the action asserts only state competition law claims, the United States has a strong interest because the alleged conduct by the insurers “presents a serious concern under the federal antitrust laws.”
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May 05, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A plastics manufacturer, a captive insurer and a microcaptive manager on May 4 appealed to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a Texas federal judge’s partial summary judgment ruling in their challenge to an IRS microcaptive disclosure rule, contesting the lower court’s determination that the agency acted within its statutory authority to require disclosure of potentially tax-avoidant transactions.
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April 29, 2026
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A farming partnership filed suit in a South Dakota federal court seeking judicial review of a determination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) denying a requested noncompliance finding under federal crop insurance regulations, alleging that the agency’s decision improperly blocked its ability to pursue extra-contractual damages against its insurer and agents in connection with a disputed 2017 Whole Farm Revenue Protection (WFRP) claim.
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April 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — An insurer alleges in a California federal court that multiple companies breached guaranty agreements by failing to reimburse more than $5 million owed under a 2019 reinsurance agreement after a reinsurer defaulted and failed to indemnify the insurer.
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April 28, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 denied an insurer’s petition for a writ of certiorari seeking review of a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision holding that late notice of underlying class litigation relieved a reinsurer of indemnity obligations under a quota share reinsurance treaty; the insurer had argued in its petition that the appellate court imposed an objective notice standard not recognized under Texas law.
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April 28, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Arguing that two regulatory bulletins unlawfully authorize insurers to shift California FAIR Plan assessment costs onto policyholders, a consumer research and advocacy organization contends in a California state court that the pass-through structure effectuated by the bulletins conflicts with the governing proportional-sharing mandate and cannot be sustained under the state’s insurance ratemaking framework.
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April 27, 2026
DETROIT — A reinsurer and a claims handler argue in a supplemental brief filed in Michigan federal court that a captive insurer’s claims against the nonparty claims handler in a dispute over coverage for Legionnaires’ disease claims under a reinsurance agreement fail because the complaint alleges no duty, breach or concrete injury sufficient to establish a justiciable controversy and, in any event, concern issues arising out of the agreement that must be resolved in a pending arbitration.
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April 24, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — After a District of Columbia federal court denied its request for an emergency stay, a provider of crop insurance software moved in the same court for summary judgment seeking to vacate a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) directive that reclassifies certain software payments as capped agent compensation under the federal crop insurance program, arguing that the agency unlawfully reversed longstanding policy without explanation in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act (APA).
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April 24, 2026
LOS ANGELES — The California Fair Plan Association (CFP) said it is appealing a California court’s grant of summary adjudication in favor of an insured as to his sole remaining claim for declaratory relief in his lawsuit alleging that CFP issued property insurance policies with fire coverage that is unlawfully restrictive as to smoke damage claims.
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April 24, 2026
HOUSTON — A Texas federal judge partially granted cross-motions for summary judgment filed by a group of plaintiffs that includes a plastics manufacturer, a captive insurer and a microcaptive manager, and the federal government in a challenge to an IRS rule targeting microcaptive insurance arrangements, upholding the agency’s authority to require disclosure of transactions deemed potentially tax-avoidant while vacating its classification of some arrangements as abusive for failing to make the required finding that such transactions are presumptively tax-avoidant.
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April 23, 2026
WATERBURY, Conn. — A Connecticut state judge granted limited intervention but denied emergency relief sought by universal life policyholders in PHL Variable Insurance Co.’s rehabilitation, holding that despite the rehabilitator’s Dec. 31 shift to a liquidation strategy, his decisions to reject a proposed premium suspension or escrow mechanism remained lawful, rational and in good faith under the deferential standards governing rehabilitation proceedings.
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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 16, 2026
DETROIT — A captive insurer filed a supplemental brief in Michigan federal court arguing that its dispute with a reinsurer and a claims handler over coverage for Legionnaires’ disease claims under a reinsurance agreement to which the claims handler is not a party presents a justiciable controversy that is not subject to a pending arbitration with its reinsurer after a judge ordered briefing on whether its declaratory claim against a nonparty is subject to arbitration or may proceed in court.
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April 14, 2026
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Three weeks after a reinsurer moved for dismissal on subject matter jurisdiction grounds, a municipal risk pool operator voluntarily dismissed with prejudice its declaratory judgment actionin which it sought reinsurance coverage for claims arising from an underlying lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a school employee and negligent supervision by a board of education.
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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 13, 2026
SHERMAN, Texas — A tax firm filed an amended complaint in a Texas federal court, seeking to recover refunds and invalidate the Internal Revenue Service’s assessment and collection of promoter penalties based on its captive insurance advisory work, including divisible amounts it paid and additional sums the agency allegedly offset and misapplied to those penalties.
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April 13, 2026
NEW YORK — A New York County Supreme Court justice granted a claims management company’s motion to dismiss a reciprocal insurer’s complaint without prejudice because the insurer has not yet sustained damages as the insurer is required to provide a defense to an insured school district for underlying toxic exposure lawsuits until a determination on the applicability of the pollution exclusion is made.