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October 23, 2025
The theft of approximately $102 million worth of historic artifacts from the Louvre Museum in Paris provided a stunning example of the risks that major cultural institutions can face and the often limited insurance options available to cover financial losses.
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October 23, 2025
In suing State Farm for homeowners insurance data, the state of Illinois is taking an approach to regulating carriers with transparency in mind that could be replicated elsewhere, but lowering climate-influenced costs will be a challenge, experts said.
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October 23, 2025
Deposit insurance coverage could increase for the first time since 2010 due to a bipartisan proposal to expand the limit to $10 million per depositor for certain transaction accounts, but banking and insurance experts say legislators should conduct further cost-benefit analyses to ensure safeguards are in place for high-insured deposits.
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October 23, 2025
New Jersey's top court agreed to consider the Third Circuit's underinsured motorist coverage questions, the Fifth Circuit revived an oil company's suit seeking coverage for a faulty cement settlement and the Eighth Circuit affirmed that a cleaning equipment manufacturer didn't obtain adequate coverage under its lease with a warehouse owner. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.
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October 22, 2025
The Fourth Circuit didn't seem convinced Wednesday that it should affirm a lower court's finding that government investigations into Under Armour are unrelated to a securities class action against the sportswear company and thus trigger an additional $100 million in directors and officers coverage from Under Armour's excess insurers.
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October 22, 2025
New Jersey's justices will help the Third Circuit consider whether a resident can recover up to the full $2 million limit in his employer's auto policy with Zurich rather than its $15,000 limit for underinsured motorists, the New Jersey Supreme Court announced Wednesday, taking up two certified questions.
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October 21, 2025
The Fifth Circuit revived an oil and gas producer's suit seeking coverage for a settlement it reached with a bankrupt oilfield services firm over faulty cement, saying a Texas federal court incorrectly tossed the company's duty to defend and indemnify claims against certain underwriters at Lloyd's of London.
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October 21, 2025
Financial services company Robert W. Baird & Co. told a Wisconsin federal court that a Chubb unit has wrongly refused to cover any of the company's more than $5 million loss stemming from fraudulent wire instructions, noting that AIG, its primary insurer, already paid a $2.5 million sublimit.
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October 20, 2025
A decorative surface manufacturer told a Delaware state court that an AIG unit must cover losses incurred after the chemical company it acquired allegedly misrepresented the state of its relationship with the company's top customer.
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October 20, 2025
An insurer's claims that a policyholder owes nearly $2.5 million in unpaid premiums across three separate policies must go to trial, a West Virginia federal court ruled, noting that the policyholder already disputed the existence of one of them.
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October 20, 2025
This past week, the Delaware Chancery Court and Supreme Court handled a crowded corporate docket, weighing blockbuster merger appeals, shareholder settlement objections, fights over control involving an NBA franchise and a high-profile appeal from Elon Musk involving a massive payday from Tesla.
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October 17, 2025
A Louisiana federal court officially dismissed a $4.6 million dispute involving Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Michelin North America Inc. and the companies' insurers over water damage to bales of rubber, saying the parties have fully settled their claims against CEVA Logistics companies and a New Orleans port operator.
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October 17, 2025
An insurance broker accused of mishandling a furniture retailer's insurance procurement, which left the retailer without coverage for a fire, is not entitled to defense or indemnity under its professional liability policy, the broker's insurer told a California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
The LEG-3 exclusion, a defect exclusion developed by the London Engineering Group, stood largely untested for nearly three decades, but just two years after a Washington, D.C., federal court found the exclusion to be ambiguous, policyholder attorney Angelia Wesch tells Law360 that whether the underwriting group tightens the exclusion's language remains to be seen.
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October 16, 2025
Two youth treatment centers accused an insurer Thursday of refusing to provide full coverage for hundreds of suits claiming that the centers mistreated children in their care, telling a New Hampshire federal court that the insurer wrongfully limited coverage to $1 million.
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October 16, 2025
Travelers is seeking to recoup around $1 million in costs from a shipping logistics company that it says failed to verify to whom it was providing a shipment of cameras, resulting in their theft, according to a complaint filed in California federal court.
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October 16, 2025
A trustee for Rite Aid Corp.'s bankruptcy estate has sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and a subsidiary, Walgreen Co., in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the pharmacy giant of failing to cover tens of millions of dollars in opioid epidemic-related litigation costs that it had agreed to cover.
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October 16, 2025
Illinois' insurance regulator demanded that State Farm turn over data over its homeowners insurance business, the Sixth Circuit affirmed class certification in a dispute over State Farm's payments for totaled vehicles, and the Eleventh Circuit ruled that a policyholder's untimely notice doomed coverage for a gas station's underground fuel tank leak. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.
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October 16, 2025
Northeast Insurance Co., a captive insurer for several hospitals and a Jewish nonprofit, asked a New York bankruptcy judge for Chapter 15 recognition of its Bermuda liquidation filing, saying it was rendered insolvent by claims stemming from the state's Child Victims Act.
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October 15, 2025
An insurer for an owner and operator of Florida gas stations owes no coverage for pollution costs stemming from an underground fuel tank leak, the Eleventh Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding the owner failed to properly notify its insurer of a "pollution condition" that could result in an insurance claim.
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October 15, 2025
A group of Geico auto insurers told a New York federal court that they are entitled to recoup $415,000 from companies that they allege submitted hundreds of fraudulent no-fault insurance claims, totaling over $1.25 million, for unnecessary durable medical equipment.
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October 14, 2025
Insurance litigation in federal district courts has been trending downward over the past two years, following a period of record high filings because of COVID-19 and a series of extremely destructive storms, according to a report by Lex Machina.
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October 09, 2025
An AIG unit urged a Florida federal court Thursday to reject a contractor's claims it can't be held liable for more than $1.8 million in coverage payments over a yacht fire caused by dock wiring that lacked ground fault protection, arguing the state building code required such protection.
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October 09, 2025
Private flood insurance executives see a market opportunity for a growing sector of the property and casualty industry as the National Flood Insurance Program remains restricted in its ability to renew or sell flood coverage amid the government shutdown.
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October 09, 2025
The New Jersey Supreme Court zeroed in Thursday on how far insurers can go in reserving their rights without taking a definitive position on coverage, as Mist Pharmaceuticals LLC accused Berkley Insurance Co. of stonewalling a $12 million settlement by hiding behind ambiguity in its "capacity exclusion" clause.