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February 19, 2026
Alcoa USA Corp. is looking to erase its retirees' win in a class action that claimed the aluminum manufacturer illegally cut off their life insurance benefits, telling the Seventh Circuit that the retirees owe their victory to an Indiana federal judge misreading their union contract.
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February 19, 2026
An industrial services contractor and its insurer must defend a synthetic rubber manufacturer in an underlying personal injury suit accusing the company of negligently maintaining a pipe that broke and severely burned the contractor's employee, a Texas federal court ruled.
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February 19, 2026
Law360 Insurance Authority talks to Paul Primavera, U.S. Construction Practice Leader at insurance brokerage Lockton, about new carriers and financial pressures in the insurance market.
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February 19, 2026
The delayed disclosure of thousands of documents has created "a lot of prejudice" against McCarter & English as it fights a $22.5 million professional malpractice lawsuit, and the impending trial must be pushed back again, a Connecticut state judge said Thursday.
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February 19, 2026
A Delaware state judge has found that Travelers Casualty and Surety Co. must fund the defense of an agricultural chemical company in six suits alleging that a chemical made by its predecessors gave users Parkinson's and kidney failure but that its defense can be limited under some of the policies at issue.
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February 19, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court on “windstorms,” the Fourth Circuit on a construction company settlement, and a split Fifth Circuit backs State Farm in a sewage damage dispute. Law360 looks at the past week's top insurance news.
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February 18, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday rejected Under Armour's request to reconsider a recent ruling that capped its coverage for a securities class action, government investigations and derivative matters at $100 million.
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February 18, 2026
McCarter & English LLP doubled down on its bid to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two insurance companies, arguing document production delays warrant nonsuit and that the court should, at the very least, push back a March trial date approaching in the case.
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February 18, 2026
An insurer claimed it has no duty to defend or indemnify a city government or one of its police detectives against a civil suit brought by a man who was wrongfully convicted of the 2008 murder of a University of North Carolina student, the insurer told a North Carolina federal court.
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February 17, 2026
Delaware's highest court has revived a bid by a group of insurers to recover expenses incurred for clients of Blackbaud Inc. following a major ransomware attack on the software developer's systems, saying the insurers adequately alleged that Blackbaud breached agreements to protect the clients' sensitive data.
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February 12, 2026
A new set of California consumer protection regulations governing automated decision-making is raising concerns among insurance and privacy professionals, who see an increasingly fragmented enforcement landscape even as insurers and policyholders grow more savvy with artificial intelligence.
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February 12, 2026
A California bill seeking to expand the coverage available through the state's money-challenged FAIR Plan is fueling debate over the role of the last-resort insurer following deadly fires last year in Los Angeles.
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February 12, 2026
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced his support Wednesday for a bill that would establish the nation's first public health and insurance claims standard for homes damaged by smoke contamination.
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February 12, 2026
Two insurance companies have urged a Connecticut Superior Court judge to maintain a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP, saying document production delays don't warrant killing the case less than a month before trial.
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February 12, 2026
A California court expands policy disclosure requirements for auto insurers, an opioid insurer decision in Pennsylvania, and a New York decision on litigation coverage for an herb supplier. Law360 looks at the past week's top insurance news.
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February 11, 2026
An insurer must defend a real estate company against claims that it infringed an architect's copyright in marketing materials for a newly-built home, a Massachusetts federal court ruled, finding that an exclusion for misappropriated property does not apply to bar coverage.
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February 09, 2026
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. must face a trimmed class action pursued by employee 401(k) plan participants alleging mismanagement, an Ohio federal judge ruled in an opinion unsealed Monday, telling the parties to prepare for a bench trial on the surviving claims.
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February 09, 2026
A Florida luxury vehicle company locked in a lawsuit with a competitor alleging deceptive trade practices was wrongfully denied insurance coverage under a directors and officers policy, forcing the auto company to fork out more than $4 million in defense costs, it told a Florida federal court.
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February 06, 2026
A New York state court rejected a law firm's request to pause arbitration related to a buyer-side representations and warranties policy that the firm's client issued to a bank, saying the firm lacked standing to seek a stay because it is a stranger to the arbitration proceedings.
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February 06, 2026
A Maryland federal judge has dismissed counterclaims against Knight Specialty Insurance Co. in a suit over coverage of a fire that destroyed an insured's cannabis crop, while striking the cannabis grower's answer to the initial complaint.
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February 05, 2026
The Delaware Supreme Court delivered policyholders a crucial victory when it rejected arguments by insurers that a $28 million settlement paid by Harman International Industries Inc. to resolve stockholder litigation constituted an excluded post-deal "bump-up" in merger consideration.
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February 05, 2026
An accusation by the Archdiocese of New York that Chubb waged a "shadow campaign" against the church while also defending a slew of sex abuse suits against the church has the potential to disrupt trust in the insurance market.
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February 05, 2026
A California bill that would mandate safety standards for the testing and clearance of homes after wildfires could make toxicity concerns more central to a claims process in which living expenses are at stake for people wary of returning to contaminated homes.
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February 05, 2026
McCarter & English LLP on Thursday asked a Connecticut Superior Court judge to sink a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit by two struggling insurers, saying failures to provide documents or knowledgeable people to testify during pretrial depositions warrant a "harsh" end to the nearly decade-old case.
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February 05, 2026
A Liberty Mutual unit breached a stop-loss insurance policy by denying Yale University's health system $4.1 million in coverage for a plan member's bone marrow transplant, the system told a Connecticut federal court.