An insurer said it shouldn't have to pay out an electronic cigarette product wholesaler's $5 million claim for a warehouse fire, telling an Illinois federal court that the company misrepresented important fact... (more story)

A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday largely kept intact three insurers' lawsuit seeking reimbursement for payouts to residents of homes damaged after 2021 flooding, finding the city of Detroit and the Great La... (more story)

The Eleventh Circuit revived a Florida railroad company's insurance dispute over coverage for $5.6 million in costs to avoid Hurricane Irma damage, ruling claimed expenses for preventative maintenance exceeded... (more story)

A Detroit property owner can't seek Sixth Circuit review of the Michigan attorney general's intervention in the property owner's constitutional challenge to the state's Fire Insurance Withholding Program, as a... (more story)

A Vermont insurer has not paid the full amount a Denver church says it is owed under the parish's policy for a May 2024 hailstorm and shortchanged the property's damage estimate by more than $650,000, the chur... (more story)

An Illinois couple cannot receive additional payments for medical expenses and uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage beyond the $1.1 million they already received for a car crash, the Seventh Circuit rul... (more story)

Samsung Electronics can't escape a Nationwide unit's suit seeking to recoup the more than $653,000 it said it paid after its policyholders' home was damaged in a fire caused by a defective electric range, a No... (more story)

An insurance broker will get a second chance at claims against a rival company. A Liberty Mutual unit was wrongfully denied coverage for an Ohio fire. And a CNA Financial unit does not owe coverage for a jewel... (more story)

Abe Scarr, state director for nonprofit public interest group Illinois PIRG, spoke to Law360 about what two advancing bills will do for property and casualty policyholders in Illinois.

The Sixth Circuit's recent decision in Schoening Investment v. Cincinnati Casualty throws into relief the fine lines of courts' varying interpretations of whether a commercial property insurer may justifiably ... (more story)

A Fifth Circuit panel on Tuesday affirmed a decision finding that ChampionX Corp. lacked the contractual standing to sue insurers for coverage of a $40 million oil spill lawsuit involving one of its subsidiari... (more story)

A North Carolina federal judge approved Tuesday a $10 million compromise settlement that ends a North Carolina man's civil rights lawsuit alleging he was coerced as a teen into falsely confessing to the rape a... (more story)

Publix has urged a Florida federal judge to find that insurers for salty snack food maker Snyder's-Lance Inc. should have covered the supermarket chain's defense in a $3 million slip-and-fall case under an agr... (more story)

A Missouri Christian ranch for at-risk boys has settled a lawsuit from its nonprofit insurer that claimed it did not owe coverage for a case alleging a former resident experienced physical and sexual abuse dur... (more story)

A Chubb insurer has a duty to defend a Roman Catholic diocese in California against more than 200 consolidated child sex abuse suits, a federal court ruled, saying the claims trigger an umbrella policy provisi... (more story)

An insurer for a seller of alfalfa and grass hay told a Texas federal court Monday that it does not owe coverage for a lawsuit alleging the business sold animal feed contaminated with toxic compounds from inva... (more story)

A Michigan law firm urged a federal court not to toss a counterclaim alleging that its professional liability insurer handled the firm's bid for coverage of an underlying malpractice suit in bad faith, saying ... (more story)

An insurer told a Florida federal court that it has no duty to defend or indemnify a nightclub and its manager against a suit claiming a woman was fatally struck by a car after she became disoriented by bear s... (more story)

An Oklahoma-based law firm is urging a federal court to toss a suit alleging its negligence in representing a Munich Re unit in a coverage dispute over an apartment fire is to blame for a $92 million judgment,... (more story)

An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify a gentleman's club against a suit claiming it contributed to the intoxication of a man whose drunken driving killed another patron, telling a Tennessee fed... (more story)

The frequency and severity of claims made under policies for mergers and acquisitions have risen in recent years, with Aon's North American clients recovering a record-breaking $1 billion across transactional ... (more story)

A Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday partially revived a Washington couple's claims accusing Integon Preferred Insurance Co. of flouting its duty to defend them from a lawsuit over a 2017 pedestrian collision, revers... (more story)

Emory University said its insurer must cover $1.2 million in defense costs and costs incurred to settle a proposed class action over the school's switch to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, telling... (more story)

An Argo Group unit told a Virginia federal court it isn't on the hook for two suits alleging a provider of therapeutic services for children and adolescents cheated Medicaid out of millions of dollars and tran... (more story)

The data center construction boom is making the risks insurance coverage gaps more acute. David Weiss of Reed Smith LLP talks about the benefits of special policies and other considerations for owners and other players.

A professional liability insurer breached its contract with an Illinois-based consulting firm when it exhausted policy limits by settling a suit against the firm's employee without the firm's consent, a federa... (more story)

More than 15,000 motorists asked a Washington federal judge Tuesday to give the initial approval to an $8.8 million deal to resolve a proposed class action alleging State Farm failed to adequately pay for the ... (more story)

A company and its insurer have accused China Construction Bank Corp. of issuing fraudulent letters of credit valued at nearly $10 million, claiming in Illinois federal court that the country's largest bank has... (more story)

A federal judge has sided with a Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. unit in a coverage dispute over a Washington Equal Pay and Opportunities Act class action, finding that an alleged failure to disclose salary ranges ... (more story)

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Googl... (more story)