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September 16, 2025
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A reinsurer and a management general agency gave notice to a New York federal court that they are voluntarily dismissing claims against a doctor in a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) lawsuit alleging fraudulent workers’ compensation claims and personal injury lawsuits.
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September 16, 2025
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A reinsurer filed a reply memorandum supporting its motion for summary judgment in litigation concerning mine subsidence claims, contending that a railroad company’s opposition raises no material factual disputes and that its arguments are immaterial to the claim and issue preclusion factors central to the case.
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September 16, 2025
BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge granted summary judgment in favor of a reinsurer, dismissing all claims against it for prematurely terminating rental car benefits, holding that the auto insurance policies in dispute were issued by a distinct, but affiliated, insurer, and that the reinsurer’s service and reinsurance agreements did not establish alter-ego control of the insurer.
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September 12, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing en banc filed by the owners of a microcaptive insurance company, leaving intact its decision that their microcaptive arrangements did not achieve risk distribution and therefore could not qualify as insurance for federal tax purposes.
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September 10, 2025
LOS ANGELES — A homeowner whose property is covered by the California Fair Plan Association (CFPA) sued the insurance pool in state court, alleging that the state’s “insurer of last resort” failed to adequately investigate and assess damage and issue payment after her home was damaged in the Palisades Fire.
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September 10, 2025
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge ordered the dismissal without costs and without prejudice of an insurer’s breach of contract suit against its reinsurer after the parties reached a settlement.
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September 09, 2025
NEW YORK — A New York justice on Sept. 8 granted the Archdiocese of New York’s motion for partial summary judgment against London Market Insurers (LMI) in the archdiocese’s coverage dispute arising from close to 1,700 underlying sexual abuse lawsuits, declaring that LMI must pay its solvent shares of its full policy limit of $200,000 per covered occurrence from May 1, 1975, to May 14, 1978, and $300,000 per covered occurrence from May 15, 1978, to Sept. 1, 1978, in excess of the policy’s $100,000-per-occurrence retention.
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September 09, 2025
TOLEDO, Ohio — Four reinsurers and an overhaul and repair company filed a proposed stipulation of dismissal with prejudice in an Ohio federal court in a case that the reinsurers filed over a fatal November 2019 aircraft crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo that resulted in multiple fatalities.
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September 05, 2025
SEATTLE — A Washington federal judge dismissed a case over reimbursement for the defense and settlement of underlying suits that alleged sexual abuse and struck a pending motion for summary judgment after a reinsurer and an interlocal cooperative notified the court that they had reached a settlement.
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September 03, 2025
NEW YORK — A reinsurer opposes a Florida businessman’s motion to dismiss its breach of contract suit in a New York federal court centered on a personal guaranty of a defaulted $34.4 million loan, contending that the guaranty is “absolute and unconditional” and that repayment cannot be evaded because the dismissal arguments for lack of consideration and a violation of the statute of frauds are foreclosed by the guaranty’s language.
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September 03, 2025
BOSTON — The tally on dismissal motions in a wave of putative class actions retirees have filed over pension risk transfers (PRTs) would stand at two granted, one denied if the recommendation of a Massachusetts federal magistrate judge were taken; among other things, the retirees allege that the use of offshore captive reinsurers makes annuity providers riskier.
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August 28, 2025
WILMINGTON, Del. — The defendants in three related cases concerning a disputed captive reinsurance pool seek a stay of discovery in the Delaware Chancery Court pending the resolution of motions to dismiss the complaints, arguing that the pool’s regulatory unwinding already provided the primary relief sought and thus rendered most of the plaintiffs’ claims and pending discovery requests moot.
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August 28, 2025
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a Texas federal court’s ruling in a reinsurer’s appeal of a $2,866,423.97 judgment that includes attorney fees, ruling that an insurer’s months-late notice of its involvement in underlying class action litigation constituted a material breach of its quota share treaty with the reinsurer and violated the contract’s notice provision, depriving the reinsurer of its right to participate in the defense and establishing prejudice as a matter of law.
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August 28, 2025
NEW YORK — A food processing company asked a New York federal judge to schedule oral argument on its petition to vacate portions of an arbitration award granted to a reinsurer, as well as the reinsurer’s cross-motion to confirm the award, related to a poultry rendering facility fire and subsequent reinsurance dispute.
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August 25, 2025
PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel vacated a lower court’s discovery and summary judgment rulings in investors’ suit against a reinsurer and three former executives over allegations that they violated federal securities laws by omitting historical loss ratios from loss reserves disclosures, finding those omitted historical loss ratios to be material and that discovery had not been completed.
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August 21, 2025
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a docket-only entry, a North Carolina federal court issued a notice advising of a hearing on a court-appointed special master’s motion seeking to approve compensation for him and his advisers in a case in which insurance magnate Greg Lindberg pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy regarding his $2 billion scheme to defraud insurers and policyholders by funneling money through his extensive global network of insurance companies and was convicted on retrial in a related criminal proceeding.
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August 20, 2025
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee federal judge partially granted farmers’ motion for reconsideration of a September 2024 ruling dismissing their claim for extracontractual damages against a crop insurer, amending the dismissal of the claim to be without prejudice, citing a related pending case against federal regulators that could potentially invalidate the rationale for the original dismissal.
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August 20, 2025
CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge granted a motion to stay proceedings for 30 days after the parties informed the court in their motion that they have “gained momentum” toward reaching a settlement in a case centered on allegations that an insurer withheld owed funds from a reinsurer.
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August 19, 2025
PADUCAH, Ky. — A Kentucky federal judge denied a ferrosilicon producer’s motion to reconsider a prior ruling that limited the scope of the producer’s issued deposition topics, holding that the producer’s objections were largely repetitions of prior arguments already considered and addressed by the court and that claims-handling discovery is inappropriate at the current stage of litigation, which is centered on a reinsurance contract in a dispute over pollution-related cleanup costs.
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August 19, 2025
NEW YORK — An insurer argues in a New York federal court that reconsideration of dismissal of its federal securities law claims is warranted because the court overlooked laws and facts and disregarded allegations that misrepresentations and transactional conduct tied to the insurer’s compelled April 2024 purchase of the equity of reinsurer JRG Reinsurance Co. Ltd. occurred domestically.
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August 18, 2025
DALLAS — A Texas federal judge denied a motion to stay discovery pending resolution of a former insurance CEO’s motions for partial summary judgment on advancement of incurred legal fees and dismissal of his former employer’s counterclaims, stating that “neither the breadth nor the burden of discovery warrants a stay” in the case, which is centered on allegations that the former CEO manipulated the insurer’s claims reserves, resulting in financial losses from a terminated loss portfolio transfer (LPT) reinsurance contract.
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August 13, 2025
FRESNO, Calif. — A federal judge in California preliminarily granted approval of a class action settlement and conditional class certification in a long-running Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA) case, authorizing class members to receive $875 in cash compensation per affected loan with an estimated gross settlement award totaling $30.5 million.
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August 13, 2025
NEW YORK — A collection of reinsurers disputing whether the 2020 seizure of crude oil at a Venezuelan port arose from an “insurrection” as defined in its marine cargo reinsurance contract with CITGO Petroleum Corp. filed a supplemental brief in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals citing a decision in an analogous case, arguing that it supports their claim that the recognition doctrine should not have been used to grant partial summary judgment to CITGO on the insurrection element; CITGO responded that the case is distinguishable because it was “limited by the New York Convention, which does not apply here” and maintains that the summary judgment should stand.
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August 12, 2025
RICHMOND, Va. — A petition for permission to file an interlocutory appeal to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals regarding a ruling that retirees had standing to file a putative class lawsuit that is part of a much-watched recent string of Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases challenging pension risk transfers (PRTs) is unopposed and has garnered two supporting briefs from amici curiae; among other things, the retirees allege that the use of offshore captive reinsurers makes annuity providers riskier.
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August 12, 2025
DALLAS — A tax consulting firm moved to compel the filing of the administrative record in its challenge to an Internal Revenue Service final rule on certain microcaptive insurance arrangements, arguing that he agency raised arguments in its dismissal motion that cannot be resolved without the record and has not provided satisfactory reason for withholding the record despite producing it in a related case involving the same rule.