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  • April 22, 2025

    Insurer Says No Coverage For $668K Housing Funds Dispute

    An insurer says it owes no coverage to a low-income housing nonprofit in an underlying dispute involving a Washington county that seeks to claw back nearly $668,000 that was allegedly paid out to ineligible recipients.

  • April 22, 2025

    Hartford, Policyholders Agree To End Damage Payment Row

    Two Hartford units and their policyholders reached a settlement in a proposed class action claiming the insurers underpaid property losses by improperly withholding labor costs as depreciation when calculating the actual cash value of claims, the parties told a Connecticut federal court.

  • April 21, 2025

    Toyota Accused Of Illegally Selling Driver Data To Progressive

    Toyota has for years been using tracking devices to collect drivers' driving habits and other personal information and selling the driver data to third parties like auto insurer Progressive without consent, a putative class action filed Monday in Texas federal court alleges.

  • April 21, 2025

    Allstate CLO's Compensation Reached $5.17 Million In 2024

    Christine DeBiase, executive vice president, chief legal officer and general counsel of the Allstate Corp., earned $5.17 million in total compensation in 2024, according to a recent securities filing.

  • April 18, 2025

    SEC Wins $1M Real Estate Fraud Suit Over NC Development

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission scored a win in its fraud suit in North Carolina federal court against an insurance agent and his company, with a judge finding the agency has shown the defendants defrauded seven investors out of over $1 million.

  • April 18, 2025

    Murdaugh's Banker Pleads Guilty To Fraud Ahead Of Retrial

    A former bank CEO accused of helping ex-lawyer and convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh steal client money pled guilty Friday to fraud ahead of a retrial, months after his initial conviction was overturned based on jury irregularities.

  • April 18, 2025

    SC School District's Embezzlement Suit Sent To Arbitration

    A South Carolina school district must arbitrate the arbitrability of its claims that its insurer conspired with its former chief financial officer to steal tens of millions of dollars from the district by issuing unnecessary and expensive insurance policies, a federal court ordered.

  • April 16, 2025

    Texas Oil Cos. Seek Pass-Through Pollution Claims Coverage

    Oil and gas companies told a Texas federal court on Wednesday that their insurer must pay to defend them against pass-through claims in connection with underlying pollution lawsuits thanks to a purchase and sale agreement they entered into with another company.

  • April 16, 2025

    5th Circ. Says Late Settlement Notice Means No Coverage

    A healthcare company was rightfully denied coverage for a settlement over the erroneous approval of a Florida Medicaid recipient's out-of-state treatment, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, finding the company breached its policy when it failed to inform its insurer of the agreement in advance.

  • April 15, 2025

    Ex-Atty Pleads Guilty To ID Theft In Insurance Settlement Case

    A former attorney has pled guilty in Washington state court to theft and identity theft over a scheme to lift thousands of dollars from a client's insurance settlement, money that was supposed to pay medical expenses after a traffic accident.

  • April 15, 2025

    Insurer Denies Coverage For Short Seller Cohodes' Libel Case

    Short seller Marc Cohodes, who was accused by a financial advisory firm of causing $5 million in reputational damage via libelous posts on X, cannot have coverage for the litigation, an insurer told a Montana federal court, noting that his homeowners policy excluded intentional wrongdoing.

  • April 14, 2025

    Insurance Broker Accuses Rival Of Poaching Team Members

    One of the largest insurance brokerages in the United States has sued a former employee and her new employer in Georgia federal court, alleging they poached its employees in violation of the ex-worker's confidentiality, nonsolicitation and noninterference agreement.

  • April 09, 2025

    Insurer Settles Suit Blaming Bank Consultant For Data Breach

    National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh has settled a suit accusing a Washington-based consultant of security lapses after the personal data of over 10,000 bank customers ended up online, according to new filings in Evergreen State court.

  • April 09, 2025

    Mass. Justices Asked To Raise Bar For Pension, Benefit Loss

    Massachusetts' highest court was asked on Wednesday to adopt a more expansive interpretation of what constitutes cruel or unusual punishment or an excessive fine in the case of a former state trooper whose $1 million public pension and healthcare benefits were forfeited after his conviction in an overtime fraud case.

  • April 08, 2025

    4th Circ. Won't Revisit Ambiguous Endorsement Ruling

    The Fourth Circuit on Monday declined to review its ruling that a South Carolina district court erred by finding that an endorsement unambiguously applied to cap an aluminum supplier's insurance recovery for a fire loss at $10 million.

  • April 07, 2025

    Insurers Lose Subrogation Suits Over Blackbaud Data Breach

    Several insurers cannot recoup investigation and credit monitoring expenses they covered for their insureds following a 2020 ransomware attack against Blackbaud, a Delaware state court ruled, saying two suits by the carriers failed to allege insured-specific facts in order to adequately plead breach of contract claims against the software company.

  • April 07, 2025

    Agriculture Insurer Says Agent Error Cost It Fed. Reinsurance

    A Texas insurance company has taken aim at its insurance agent, claiming that clerical errors cost the company over $1 million after applications for reinsurance were belatedly submitted to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Federal Crop Insurance Corp. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • April 04, 2025

    Maynard Nexsen Lands 8-Atty Insurance Team From Ogletree

    Maynard Nexsen PC has added an eight-attorney insurance team from Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC, including three shareholders, who will enhance its capabilities to handle Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims.

  • April 02, 2025

    GoodRx, PBM Price-Fixing MDL Set In Rhode Island

    The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Wednesday consolidated in Rhode Island litigation alleging that GoodRx conspired with pharmacy benefit managers, including CVS Caremark and Express Scripts, to suppress reimbursements to independent pharmacies for dispensing generic prescription medications.

  • April 02, 2025

    Potbelly Says Insurer Must Cover Wage Transparency Suit

    Sandwich chain owner Potbelly Inc. told a Washington state court that its insurer wrongly refused to cover it in a proposed underlying class action alleging the business violated Washington's wage transparency law by failing to disclose pay and benefit information to job applicants.

  • April 01, 2025

    Prudential Beats Life Insurance Applicant's GIPA Suit

    A Prudential life insurance applicant cannot pursue genetic information privacy claims after being required to undergo a physical exam and detail her family's medical history, as the state law she cites does not apply to life insurance underwriting, an Illinois federal judge said on Monday. 

  • March 31, 2025

    Alcoa Retirees, Unions Win Block On Health Benefits Cutoff

    Aluminum producer Alcoa USA Corp. must provide lifetime healthcare benefits to a group of retirees who were represented by unions, an Indiana federal judge ruled, greenlighting an injunction that allows class members to retroactively seek payments for costs.

  • March 31, 2025

    Del. Court Says Mattel Sleeper Claims Are One Occurrence

    Injury claims against toy-makers Mattel and subsidiary Fisher Price over their Rock n' Play Sleeper products constitute a single occurrence under Mattel's various commercial general liability policies, a Delaware state court ruled, though further finding that individual alleged injuries must still fall under different policy years.

  • March 28, 2025

    AIG Trade Secrets Row With Insurance Startup Gets Trimmed

    A New Jersey federal court narrowed a trade secrets theft suit brought by AIG units against a new insurer founded by former senior executives, calling claims of interference with contract, breach of fiduciary duty and unauthorized access of AIG's computers unsupported Friday.

  • March 28, 2025

    Microcaptive Case Doesn't Curb Tax Collection, 10th Circ. Told

    The IRS mischaracterized a lawsuit seeking to set aside guidance requiring additional reporting for microcaptive insurance arrangements, a plumbing supply company and its owners told the Tenth Circuit, saying their suit isn't barred because it doesn't restrain tax collection as the agency claimed.

Expert Analysis

  • Legal Ethics Considerations For Law Firm Pro Bono Deals

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    If a law firm enters into a pro bono deal with the Trump administration in exchange for avoiding or removing an executive order, it has an ethical obligation to create a written settlement agreement with specific terms, which would mitigate some potential conflict of interest problems, says Andrew Altschul at Buchanan Angeli.

  • The Benefits Of Aligning States On Legal Paraprofessionals

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    Texas' proposal to become the latest state to license paraprofessional providers of limited legal services could help firms expand their reach and improve access to justice, but consumers, attorneys and allied legal professionals would benefit even more if similar programs across the country become more uniform, says Michael Houlberg at the University of Denver.

  • 10 Soft Skills Every GC Should Master

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    As businesses face shifting regulatory and technological uncertainty, general counsel will need to strengthen certain soft skills to succeed, from admitting when they make a mistake to maintaining a healthy dose of dispassion, says Douglas Brown at Manatt.

  • An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

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    Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

  • Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance

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    Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • How Calif., NY Could Fill Consumer Finance Regulatory Void

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    California and New York have historically taken the lead in consumer financial protection, and both show signs of becoming even more active in this area during the second Trump administration amid an enforcement pullback at the federal level, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

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    Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

  • How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms

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    Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital

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    Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition

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    Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.

  • Law School's Missed Lessons: Be An Indispensable Associate

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    While law school teaches you to research, write and think critically, it often overlooks the professional skills you will need to make yourself an essential team player when transitioning from a summer to full-time associate, say attorneys at Stinson.

  • Adapting To Private Practice: From DOJ Leadership To BigLaw

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    The move from government service to private practice can feel like changing one’s identity, but as someone who has left the U.S. Department of Justice twice, I’ve learned that a successful transition requires patience, effort and the realization that the rewards of practicing law don’t come from one particular position, says Richard Donoghue at Pillsbury.