Top LA Fire Issues Implicated In Trio Of New Insurance Bills
Three recent insurance bills in California could significantly change coverage outcomes for policyholders in the wake of disasters and help address some of the issues that have most vexed homeowners following last year's fires in Los Angeles, while adding to a raft of newly enacted insurance laws, pros say.
The Biggest Legal, Regulatory Developments From LA Fires
California's insurance landscape was permanently altered early last year after a series of deadly blazes broke out in the Los Angeles area that continues to challenge efforts to mitigate a statewide crisis associated with high insurance costs and low availability. Here, Law360 looks at a timeline of some of the most important insurance legal and regulatory events that followed the fires.
Litigation Costs, Mental Health Risks Strain Coverage For Jails
Liability policies for certain county jails aren't being renewed due to their failure to ensure statewide standards and excessive claims, prompting a review of county policies and available funding, experts say.
Top LA Fire Issues Implicated In Trio Of New Insurance Bills
Three recent insurance bills in California could significantly change coverage outcomes for policyholders in the wake of disasters and help address some of the issues that have most vexed homeowners following last year's fires in Los Angeles, while adding to a raft of newly enacted insurance laws, pros say.
The Biggest Legal, Regulatory Developments From LA Fires
California's insurance landscape was permanently altered early last year after a series of deadly blazes broke out in the Los Angeles area that continues to challenge efforts to mitigate a statewide crisis associated with high insurance costs and low availability. Here, Law360 looks at a timeline of some of the most important insurance legal and regulatory events that followed the fires.
Litigation Costs, Mental Health Risks Strain Coverage For Jails
Liability policies for certain county jails aren't being renewed due to their failure to ensure statewide standards and excessive claims, prompting a review of county policies and available funding, experts say.
Expert Analysis
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Property More
A subsidiary of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. on Thursday accused Underwriters at Lloyd's London and other insurers of wrongfully refusing to defend a general contractor from a construction defects suit invo... (more story)
An Allianz unit acted in bad faith when refusing to pay nearly $2.3 million in coverage for damages caused by Hurricane Helene, a private golf club alleged in a suit removed to North Carolina federal court.
Under Armour's coverage for claims over its public financial forecasts and accounting practices is capped at $100 million, an insurer lost its appeals in two cases stemming from a $40 million drunk driving ver... (more story)
A law firm urged a Louisiana federal court Wednesday to toss a proposed class action over an alleged scheme to collect exorbitant fees on hurricane-related property insurance claims, saying the complaint fails... (more story)
A Pennsylvania state judge Wednesday said an AIG unit won't have to pay FedEx $200 million in post-judgment interest following a fatal crash involving one of its drivers, but allowed bad faith and promissory e... (more story)
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The Michigan Supreme Court declined Friday to review a lower court's ruling that allowed Nationwide entities to file combined returns and share tax credits among their members, with one justice suggesting the ... (more story)
A grandmother's financial support doesn't trump other factors in determining whether her adult grandson is a member of her household for insurance purposes, Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court said... (more story)
General Liability More
Commercial general liability policyholders will soon see provisions limiting coverage for damage awards and requiring disclosures of third-party litigation funding as insurers combat what they see as drivers o... (more story)
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch and his wife failed to pay the premiums on hefty life insurance policies and let them lapse rather than hold on to them long enough for their value to grow, Pacific Life Insurance Co. ... (more story)
A construction policy insurer agency and its owner aren't owed coverage for an underlying personal injury lawsuit, its professional liability carrier told a New York federal court, alleging a third-party lawsu... (more story)
An excess insurer told a Kentucky federal court that a policy exclusion precludes it from covering the rest of a $2.2 million judgment against a hotel found liable for a man's fatal burns from a shower.
An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify a mining equipment parts supplier against claims that it sold counterfeit parts to a reseller, telling a Montana federal court that the underlying suit doe... (more story)
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday seemed to favor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's position that public comments were properly solicited before labeling two forever chemicals as hazardous substances, and e... (more story)
Under Armour's public financial forecasts and its accounting practices are a single claim under its insurers' excess policy language because they are "logically or causally related," the Fourth Circuit found T... (more story)
A property management company said an AIG unit shirked its duty to defend a lawsuit accusing the company of charging unlawful fees to tenants who receive Section 8 vouchers, telling a California federal court ... (more story)
An excess insurer for a crane company owes coverage under its $10 million policy for a settlement with a man crushed by a crane, an Indiana federal judge ruled, noting that while it was a "very close case," in... (more story)
A disbarred attorney was hit with new charges claiming that he induced a witness to commit perjury and obstructed justice in the federal investigation of an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in the New Orleans area.
Specialty Lines More
A Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. unit told a federal court that it doesn't owe coverage to a company and its officers for a shareholder derivative lawsuit alleging the officers schemed to dilute the stockhold... (more story)
A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected efforts by insurer Integon Indemnity Corp. to appeal decisions in a pair of cases stemming from a $40 million drunken driving verdict, saying the receivers ... (more story)
A property management company and an affiliated investment company have alleged in Pennsylvania federal court that subsidiaries of insurance giants Starr and Allianz wrongfully denied them coverage for suits f... (more story)
A trustee for the bankruptcy estate of a former medical spa owner alleged that Aspen Specialty Insurance Co. breached its duty to defend the woman in litigation over a client's burn injury, forcing her to face... (more story)
Several coherent patterns emerged from 2025's data breach litigation activity, suggesting that judges have grown skilled at distinguishing between companies that were genuinely victimized by sophisticated crim... (more story)
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to take up an appeal of the Sixth Circuit’s jurisdictional standard for mixed actions, the Sixth Circuit found no additional coverage for a religious organization’s code complian... (more story)
Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London is fighting a landlord's bid for an early win in its suit seeking coverage for multidistrict antitrust litigation against property management software company RealPage I... (more story)
An insurance company, an IT company and an investment firm have reached a settlement in the insurer's federal lawsuit in Colorado that alleged it owed no coverage to the IT company, which a jury found liable f... (more story)
An insurer had no duty to defend a telecommunications company sued by a former board member in connection with a 2014 merger, a Wyoming federal court ruled, saying the suit is a single claim under its director... (more story)
State bills legislating artificial intelligence that are expected to pass in 2026 will reshape the liability landscape for all companies incorporating AI solutions into their business operations, as any novel ... (more story)