A headline-grabbing case regarding race in the college admissions process at an elite university, appealed all the way to the United States Supreme Court, is the type of nightmare scenario that might inspire an educational institution to secure a solid excess insurance policy lest the underlying liability policy’s limits evaporate in the face of snowballing legal fees.
There’s a lot of freight to haul, and some would have the public believe that unsafe players haul most of it. Of course, there are still operators today that knowingly hire suspect CDL holders to operate 80,000-lb. machines that are old, poorly maintained, and still run a lot of miles. But this--in no way -- represents trucking as a whole.
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer had a duty to defend an insured condominium association and its board members against an underlying lawsuit because the association’s board members allegedly committed ‘Wrongful Acts’ under the directors and officers coverage part of a business liability policy.
An insurance company filed a document Monday asking the D.C. Court of Appeals not to consider the question of whether the presence of COVID-19 droplets cause ‘physical loss and damage’ in the next stage of GW’s lawsuit against the company.
A Minnesota federal district court has held that a software company is entitled to coverage for losses related to diverted billing emails under its business interruption coverage, rejecting the insurer’s argument that the phrase ‘business operations’ in the insuring clause referred only to income-generating activities.
With Florida property insurers trying to curb lawsuits, a Leon County circuit judge has refused to block a decision by Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier that could steer at least some disputes away from courtrooms.
A Chubb Ltd. unit is seeking a court’s declaration it does not have to defend or indemnify eBay Inc. and former officials and employees in connection with the harassment of a Massachusetts couple.
Bankrupt Catholic dioceses are buckling to child sex abuse victims’ payout demands by offering them valuable rights to directly sue church insurers, riling up questions about the legality of such deals.
A lawsuit alleges that insurance provider Beazley Insurance Services denied coverage of two Deep Purple show cancelations in 2018 after failing to investigate the claim sufficiently.
The Los Angeles Lakers got a procedural win in their fight to secure insurance coverage for the losses the team experienced during the Covid-19 pandemic’s business shutdowns -- a development that some believe could set a precedent for similar cases.
When Russia decided that holding on to other people’s property was a good way of fighting sanctions levied against it as a result of its invasion of Ukraine, predictions abounded that this would lead to an insurance nightmare.
Wolverine Worldwide operated a shoe making factory in Kent County, Michigan. As part of the shoe production process, chemicals were used to create waterproof material. These chemicals? Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
The State Farm insurance company has filed a lawsuit against Amazon, accusing the ecommerce giant of having ‘willfully infringed’ on State Farm patented technology at the core of Elder Care Technology in order to offer a competing product.
On November 8, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that Mount Vernon Fire Insurance Co. did not have a duty to defend Global Travel International Inc. in an arbitration between Global Travel and Qualpay Inc. despite Global Travel’s best efforts to bring the claim within coverage.
