When the value of a liability claim clearly exceeds the primary insurance limit, but the excess insurer is not quite ready or willing to settle, tensions can arise as to how long the primary insurer must incur defense costs when it is prepared to pay its own limit.

Recent research linking cannabis consumption to a range of health risks may increase product liability exposures for the expanding industry. Insurance coverage for the cannabis sector, which has grown significantly over the past several years as more states legalized the drug, is expanding, experts say.

In a tragic incident that shook the University of Georgia football community, a grieving father has taken legal action against the University of Georgia Athletic Association and multiple parties, seeking $40 million in damages for the untimely death of his son, offensive lineman Devin Willock, and recruiting staffer Chandler LeCroy.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court ruling on behalf of Selective Insurance Group Inc. in a coverage dispute with Amerisure Insurance Co. over a construction accident.

A federal jury has awarded a couple in Southwest Georgia $135 million in damages after sediment pollution spilled onto their property from a solar electricity project built nearby.

On Saturday, a total of six people were injured and two of them suffered life-threatening injuries after an unexpected collapse of the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system that fell into a resort pool in Aurora, according to officials.

Simple but sometimes overlooked negotiating skills can help reduces losses for insurers and other payers that go to subrogation, a pair of subrogation experts said.

The six states where courts or legislatures have said insurers must reimburse for medical marijuana for injured workers have yet to provide guidance on how to do so, putting payers in the position of not being able to use the federal banking system to cover costs for a federally illegal substance.

New research has revealed that hundreds of industrial sites along the California coastline, such as oil and gas refineries and sewage-treatment plants, could be severely affected by flooding from rising sea levels, in the event of worsening climate change.

With court closures during the pandemic combined with industry turnover, adjusters and carriers are dealing with high case inventories, and both sides want to close cases in the most efficient way possible. One way to accomplish that is to utilize structured settlement annuities, which have become even more valuable with the rise in interest rates.

The owner of the land where the Bull Springs Fire originated in Oregon in 2021 is being sued for $2.4 million by neighboring property owners.

On April 24, 2021, the United States Supreme Court issued a decision allowing lawsuits filed by municipalities seeking to hold oil companies accountable for harms caused by carbon emissions to move forward in state courts.

Product liability claims involve a myriad of products ranging from airplanes, to coffee makers, to component construction materials and parts. However, the legal basics are generally the same for all product liability claims: the plaintiff is injured from the use of a product and, as a result, sues the product manufacturer, supplier, and/or retailer of the product.

Fox News settled Dominion Voting Systems' blockbuster defamation lawsuit on Tuesday afternoon, agreeing to a stunning $787.5 million payout -- the largest publicly known settlement in a US defamation case.

Some money may be coming your way if you used Facebook sometime between May 2007 and December 2022.