On continuous environmental-injury cases, commercial liability insurers are being sued to pay hundreds of millions of dollars more than their proportionate share, and insurer bad faith is not the basis for the disproportionate liability in these cases.

After years of legal dispute, The Hartford has entered into a settlement agreement and release with the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), wherein the insurer would pay $650 million (before tax) for sexual abuse claims against the BSA associated with policies mainly issued in the 1970s.

Gallatin County and a snowplow driver who was involved in a 2017 collision have filed a complaint in federal district court against Atlantic Special Insurance Company, alleging that the insurer acted in bad faith and breached its contract with the county.

Four drugmakers are set to face trial on Monday in a lawsuit by several large counties in California that are seeking more than $50 billion over claims the companies helped fuel an opioid epidemic by deceptively marketing addictive painkillers.

In the year of ‘pandemic pets,’ homeowners’ dog-bite injury claims fell overall, but the total cost of claims spiked to a record level, according to a new analysis of 2020 data from the Insurance Information Institute (III) and State Farm.

In Hinojos v. State Farm Lloyds, the Supreme Court of Texas addressed liability under the Texas Prompt Payment of Claims Act (the ‘TPPCA’) when an insurer timely pays only part of a claim.

As the role technology plays in our personal and business lives evolves, so, too, does the liability risk to those individuals and companies that create, design, implement, and service the technology that we rely so heavily on.

Officials say drones may have detected a second breach in a Florida wastewater reservoir containment wall that could collapse -- creating what the governor has called a "real catastrophic flood situation."

Throughout my career in practicing insurance-defense litigation, primarily representing developers, general contractors, and homebuilders in construction-defect and construction-accident matters, the most critical key to success has been the ability to identify and transfer risk to the culpable parties.

Chubb Limited is offering to buy The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. for about US$23 billion.

Ever since COVID-19 made the jump from a fast-spreading virus to a full-blown pandemic, businesses and their insurers have been bracing for liability litigation.

For six long hours on the night of February 20 firefighters in Auburn, Nebraska battled a blaze which destroyed at least 2 dozen cars at dealership Auburn Auto, many of them classics.

One of society’s most painful intersections is between the police and the communities they serve.

Over the past several years, the insurance industry in California has been plagued by waves of ‘bad faith failure to settle’ claims.

When insurance coverage is in question for a liability suit, parties initially focus on whether the pleadings require the insurance company to defend its insured.