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Exceptionally large jury verdicts decreased in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic due to court closures. Although the number and size of the judgments have rapidly rebounded, this type [...]

Insurance defense attorney members of Best's Insurance Professional Resources who responded to an exclusive Best's Review survey say they remain committed to the insurance industry but warn that counsel-insurer relationships [...]

Byline: MaryBeth Matzek, Special to the Wisconsin Law Journal The Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a circuit court decision saying an insurer is required to pay a business policyholder's claim. [...]

Byline: David Eggert Michigan insurers have sued the state after a ruling on 2019 changes to auto insurance, saying it means other parts of the law also cannot be retroactively [...]

Byline: MaryBeth Matzek, Special to the Wisconsin Law Journal The Court of Appeals has reversed a decision on an Outagamie County man's punitive damages, saying the amount awarded is greater [...]

In what some legal observers see as a major change in Louisiana tort law, the state has repealed the ability for plaintiffs to directly sue insurers unless specific conditions are [...]

A year out of law school, Scot Strems left his job as a public defender in 2008 to hang out his shingle. His days had been spent in county court [...]

THEY SAID IT: 'Then suddenly and unexpectedly, Stillwater ceased its involvement and support for 7 Brew.'--That's the contention of a counterclaim filed by the owners of 7 Brew Coffee Co. [...]

The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday issued a decision in favor of seven insurers in a lawsuit brought by 23 hotels seeking business interruption coverage for losses related to [...]

NetJets, the luxury plane unit of billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, has been sued by its 3,000-member pilots union for allegedly interfering with its communications with aircraft owners and [...]

Byline: Kirk Pinho It's been close to two years since Emma Davidson died. The 3-year-old had been playing one early April evening in 2021 at a Cape May, N.J., RV [...]

Aircraft leasing firms are suing dozens of insurers for around $6.5 billion in a string of lawsuits over the loss of hundreds of aircraft stuck in Russia since Moscow's invasion [...]

Miami-based cruise lines face a slew of lawsuits claiming they didn't do enough to protect passengers and workers from exposure to the coronavirus. Students at the University of Miami are [...]

Byline: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Shareholder Bridget Hubing recently won a case that will have a major impact on the title industry. Hubing successfully represented WFG [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Bradley Hotel Corp., v. Aspen Specialty Insurance Company Case No.: 21-1173 Officials: MANION, WOOD, and HAMILTON, Circuit Judges. Focus: Insurance [...]

Byline: Derek Hawkins WI Court of Appeals District IV Case Name: Ryan Sey, et al., v. National General Insurance Company Case No.: 2020AP1676 Officials: Blanchard, P.J., Kloppenburg, and Graham, JJ. [...]

Byline: Rick Benedict 7th Circuit Digests 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Creation Supply, Inc., v. Selective Insurance Company of the Southeast Case No.: 20-2509 Officials: RIPPLE, KANNE, and [...]

Byline: Eric Freedman A second federal judge in New Jersey has rejected a dealership's effort to hold an insurer liable for business interruption losses incurred because of a 2020 state-ordered [...]

Byline: Tara Bannow Northwell Health has sued two property insurers over their refusal to pay hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of claims the New York health system says it's [...]

ACE American Insurance Co. of Philadelphia. It is a member of the Chubb group of companies of Zurich. AIG Specialty Insurance Co. The Continental Insurance Co. of Chicago Great American [...]

Byline: WISCONSIN LAW JOURNAL STAFF 7th Circuit Digests 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: Bruce Carneil Webster v. T.J. Watson, Warden, Case No.: 19-2683 Officials: KANNE, HAMILTON, and SCUDDER, [...]

Byline: Catie Clark The class-action antitrust case against all 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield insurers in the country, including Blue Cross of Idaho and Regence Blue Shield of Idaho, [...]

Byline: Rick Benedict 7th Circuit Digests 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Case Name: United States of America v. Eugene Falls Case No.: 19-3050 Officials: FLAUM, HAMILTON and ST. EVE, Circuit [...]

Byline: Bruce Kelly The two main broker-dealers under the umbrella of Raymond James Financial Inc. sued insurer Ohio National Life Insurance Co. in federal court in Florida, alleging the insurer [...]

Byline: RYAN DEFFENBAUGH SL Green Realty Corp. sued the Chetrit Group last week to keep a $35 million security deposit still being held in escrow from the failed Daily News [...]

After a three-year battle with an insurance company, a Sebastian County man who owns several testing laboratories has another legal foe, the United States government. Billy Joe Taylor, 42, of [...]

A life insurance company is trying to avoid paying out on a $2.5 million policy to a Rogers businessman, alleging his business partner misrepresented his health less than two months [...]

Byline: Bennett Loudon The Monroe County Water Authority is being sued by an insurance company that paid for damage caused to a real estate business in Perinton by a water [...]

Byline: Greg Iacurci A broker AT LPL Financial Inc. has won an important round of legal sparring with Ohio National Life Insurance Co., with a judge ruling that the broker's [...]

Byline: Eric Freedman Dealership not liable for crash caused by loaner user A dealership's garage liability policy doesn't cover an accident caused by a service customer driving a loaner vehicle, [...]

Employees at four different businesses in four different states were tricked into wiring money to cybercriminals who used fraudulent emails to impersonate legitimate vendors, clients or company executives. Each business [...]

Should an insurance company have to pay a claim after arson destroyed a Wynne restaurant in 2018? That's what State Farm Fire & Casualty wants to know. It filed a [...]

Almost every first party policy contains a provision requiring the insured to produce relevant documents and submit to an examination under oath (EUO) and to do so before filing suit. [...]