Affordable Housing Pros See Promise In NYC-Backed Insurer
A New York City-backed program to offer property and liability insurance to affordable housing operators is a promising approach to reducing a key operating cost for landlords that don't have the flexibility of market-rate operators to increase rents, affordable housing experts said, but details of the plan remain scant.
Pa. Risk Pool Clarifies Coverage Hole For ICE Deals
An insurance risk pool in Pennsylvania is tightening policy exclusions for claims related to local law enforcement supporting federal immigration officials.
Climate-Insurance Bills Gain Steam In California, Hawaii
Lawmakers in California and Hawaii are advancing insurance bills that would create new causes of actions against oil companies and expand last-resort coverage. Here, Law360 Insurance Authority breaks down the developments.
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The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday that a portion of Colorado law addressing procedural requirements for insurers asserting failure-to-cooperate defenses against policyholders applies only to a policyhold... (more story)
The full Sixth Circuit on Friday reversed the certification of a class of 90,000 State Farm policyholders in a suit claiming the insurer systematically undervalues totaled vehicles, finding the insurer has a r... (more story)
China's largest bank can't avoid an Aon PLC subsidiary's suit seeking to hold the bank liable for its alleged role in a multibillion-dollar reinsurance fraud scheme, a New York state court ruled, allowing all ... (more story)
A group of property owners and their insurer agreed Thursday to end their lawsuit over allegedly defective dehumidifiers manufactured by Chinese company Gree Electric Appliances Inc. ahead of a planned jury trial in August.
Two State Farm units don't belong in a Florida couple's suit over reimbursement for unearned premiums following a total loss, the Eleventh Circuit found, while reviving the couple's breach of contract claim ag... (more story)
Law360 Insurance Authority talks to Rema Matevosyan, CEO of aerial imagery company Near Space, about the limitations of conventional imaging and how newer methods can assist insurers and policyholders.
State Farm doesn't owe uninsured motorist coverage, an Ameritas policy is an illegal life wager, and a Georgia attorney accused of fraud isn't entitled to professional liability coverage. Law360 has the past w... (more story)
Private equity firms are looking to invest in joint ventures with real estate investment trusts in order to put some of their vast sum of insurance capital to work.
State Farm doesn't owe uninsured motorist coverage to two women who were hurt in a rollover crash after one swerved to avoid a pedestrian on an interstate, the Tenth Circuit ruled, finding their injuries weren... (more story)
Two contractors acted negligently while performing work at a neighboring property to the Ritz-Carlton Denver that resulted in an uncontrolled release of water entering the hotel, the hotel's owner and insurers... (more story)
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Car rental companies that offer supplemental insurance through their own carriers cannot be deemed insurers of customers who purchase that coverage through rental agreements, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled M... (more story)
The Minnesota Supreme Court should be the arbiter of whether Amazon can be held liable for a $3.8 million office fire caused by a defective phone battery sold by a Chinese manufacturer on its platform, an Eigh... (more story)
A contractor hit with a $174.6 million judgment over construction delays and defects stemming from a Marriott construction project in Philadelphia has asked the court to toss the verdict and grant a new trial,... (more story)
An insurer told a Florida federal court it owes no coverage to a drilling subcontractor or a telecommunications construction company in a $7.5 million suit over the discharge of millions of gallons of raw sewa... (more story)
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a California county's suit seeking coverage of up to $162 million for environmental remediation efforts at an airport, reversing a lower court ruling that the policies wer... (more story)
An insurance broker submitted forged documents while obtaining an adjustment on a transportation company's insurance policy, causing it to lose coverage it needed to do business with a Washington, D.C., region... (more story)
An AIG unit told a California federal court that it owes no coverage for a $5.4 million award against a subcontractor for the cost of repairing and replacing an allegedly defective sprinkler system in a Las Ve... (more story)
An insurer for a roofing company owes no coverage for a wrongful death suit brought by the estate of a contractor who suffered a fatal fall on the job, a Kentucky federal court ruled, saying that the contracto... (more story)
Kemper Corp. was hit with at least three proposed class actions Monday in Illinois federal court by former employees who alleged that the insurance giant failed to stop a preventable cyberattack led by the hac... (more story)
A Wisconsin-based insurer has sued the law firm it hired to defend an auto policyholder in a crash suit, telling a California federal court that the firm's inadequate representation has cost it more than $2.2 million.
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It is up to a jury to decide whether the ex-CEO of an oil company breached provisions of the company's directors and officers policy when he entered into a $1.2 million deal with his former employer without th... (more story)
A Georgia attorney's professional liability insurer owes no coverage for an underlying suit alleging the lawyer conspired with a client to enrich themselves from a litigation funding company by claiming a fict... (more story)
A Travelers unit urged a Texas federal court to find it owed no coverage for a $2.3 million judgment entered against a real estate broker over claims it negligently permitted a contractor to enter a property a... (more story)
A Delaware federal court voided a life insurance policy as an unlawful wager on a now-deceased Florida woman's life, finding that Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. is entitled to retain the policy's $10 million de... (more story)
Effective July 1, 2026, amendments to the Connecticut Data Privacy Act narrow the safe harbor for data used by banks, insurance companies and other financial services businesses, highlighting how state regulat... (more story)
A litigation funding firm has accused its insurer of wrongfully refusing to pay out its policy's guaranteed $200 million in coverage for an unpaid loan, saying the insurer buried it in duplicative and burdenso... (more story)
A private equity-backed hospital management company can't tap into its $25 million excess professional liability insurance for several underlying lawsuits until it forks over its $5 million self-insured retent... (more story)
Financial institutions should reassess and, if necessary, strengthen existing policies, procedures and other frameworks related to whistleblowers and internal reporting in light of the Financial Crimes Enforce... (more story)
When a trademark lawsuit lands on a general counsel's desk, the instinct is to tender it to the insurer, but that model often breaks down in intellectual property litigation, where the stakes extend far beyond... (more story)
A Washington federal judge held she made a "mistake" when she rejected arguments that an insurer acted in bad faith by declining to defend a now-defunct timeshare exit company from a consumer protection class ... (more story)