Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2025

The United Nations’ highest court will deliver an opinion on Wednesday that is likely to determine the course of future climate action across the world. Known as an advisory opinion, the deliberation of the 15 judges of the International Court …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

APRIL 27, 2025

A late amendment to a phosphate mine bill has set off alarm bells among some in the Florida insurance industry, with concerns that it could cut out the heart of 2022 and 2023 legislative changes that disincentivized excessive claims litigation.

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 20, 2025

Two more property insurers put their toes in the Florida market this summer, bringing to 14 the number of new carriers in the state since 2023. It’s another sign that legislative discouragement of claims litigation has made a difference and …

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JULY 15, 2025

Leaders at one of the largest national insurance defense firms believe they have identified the causes of nuclear verdicts—and developed a comprehensive litigation strategy that negates them. A new book about that strategy and the data behind it will be …

Legal Strategy

Insurance Journal

JUNE 2, 2025

Nearly seven years after a fire ripped through Ron Perelman’s Hamptons home, he is asking a New York state judge to force insurers to pay him more than $400 million for five paintings he says were damaged in the blaze.

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2025

Changes to the taxes paid by litigation investors did not make it in the final version of the expansive One Big Beautiful Bill, but the issue of third-party litigating funding continues to have the attention of at least some lawmakers …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 1, 2025

billion) in provisions to address ongoing litigation in the United States over weed killer Roundup. German pharmaceutical and biotechnology group Bayer said on Thursday it had set aside an additional 1.2 billion euros ($1.37 The German group said that, on …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

MARCH 24, 2025

Brian Kemp’s measure to limit lawsuits in Georgia received House approval Thursday, poising the state’s litigation landscape for a controversial overhaul after a lengthy lobbying campaign. ATLANTA (AP) Republican Gov. Supporters of the bill say it will stop “frivolous” …

Litigation

WA Bar News

JUNE 12, 2025

Similarly, when a matter is likely to involve litigation, it may be necessary under Rule 1.4 to inform the client of forms of dispute resolution that might constitute reasonable alternatives to litigation. Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company, 2022 WL 6799766 at *1 (W.D. See Drueding v. Vega, 2018 WL 5728351 at *4 (Kan.

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 15, 2025

The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) … According to research from the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), legal service providers spent more than $2.5 billion on 26.9 million ads in 2024 alone–with significant increases in television, radio, and outdoor advertising since 2017.

Litigation

Civil Litigation Brief

JULY 2, 2025

We are looking at a decision made on appeal in relation to the very common issue of the percentage of a success fee and the taking out, and subsequent deduction from damages, of an After the Event Insurance policy.

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JUNE 24, 2025

claiming the supplemental insurance giant knew the risks of a cyberattack and failed to protect policyholders’ private information. An Alabama law firm wasted little time in filing a proposed class-action lawsuit against Aflac Inc., “Defendant disregarded the rights of Plaintiff …

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JUNE 26, 2025

BHP faces a full contempt of court hearing in Britain for funding litigation to try to prevent some Brazilian municipalities suing the mining giant over one of Brazil’s worst environmental disasters, London’s High Court ruled on Thursday. Thursday’s ruling is …

Court Rules

Insurance Journal

JUNE 22, 2025

judge granted preliminary approval on Friday to a $177-million settlement that resolves lawsuits against AT&T over breaches in 2024 that exposed personal information belonging to tens of millions of the telecom company’s customers. District Judge Ada Brown …

Telecommunications

Insurance Journal

JUNE 24, 2025

A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic’s use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law. Siding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 25, 2025

Lawmakers in Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have recently approved changes aimed at helping their states dip into the lucrative side of corporate litigation that Delaware, with a specialized court and business-friendly laws, has dominated as the world’s incorporation capital. Concerned …

Litigation

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 19, 2025

For the second time today we are looking at a case involving the fallout following solicitors being involved in litigation and the funding thereof. It also involves companies in administration and allegations of cases being mishandled. The sums involved are.

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 25, 2025

Three years after Citizens Property Insurance Corp. made the unprecedented move to resolve many of its residential claims disputes through a state agency instead of through litigation, officials are now planning to send some commercial claims down that same path.

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 28, 2025

A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. District Judge Anna Manasco publicly reprimanded three lawyers with Butler Snow, the law …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 23, 2025

Data storage provider Western Digital has convinced a California federal judge to reduce a $552.7 million award against it in a patent dispute over data encryption to just $1, according to a court order made public on Monday. District …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 16, 2025

Purdue Pharma has won support from the attorneys general of 55 U.S. states and territories for its $7.4 billion settlement to resolve thousands of opioid lawsuits against the drugmaker and its owners, members of the Sackler family. A framework for …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 31, 2025

Overall numbers of securities class actions filed in the first half of 2025 are in line with last year, but artificial intelligence- and cryptocurrency-related filings are on the rise. According to a report by Cornerstone Research in collaboration with the …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 16, 2025

Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a bid by Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other oil and gas companies to have lawsuits brought by two Louisiana localities accusing them of harming the state’s coast over a period of …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 22, 2025

Bleach maker Clorox said Tuesday it has sued information technology provider Cognizant over a devastating 2023 cyberattack, alleging that the hackers pulled off the intrusion simply by asking the tech company’s staff for employees’ passwords. Clorox was one of several …

Technology

Insurance Journal

JUNE 16, 2025

The American Bar Association sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking an order that would bar the White House from pursuing what the ABA called a campaign of intimidation against major law firms. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JULY 20, 2025

A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train its AI system. District Judge William Alsup said the authors …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 26, 2025

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday for Meta Platforms against a group of authors who had argued that its use of their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system infringed their copyrights. District Judge Vince Chhabria, in …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 18, 2025

Ron Perelman told a judge that five of his paintings totaling over $400 million in value lost their luster from a fire in his Hamptons home, at the trial of his lawsuit seeking to force his insurers to cover the …

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JULY 31, 2025

climate regulation as a way to cut costs for industry, but it may backfire by forcing automakers, utilities, and manufacturers into a future of regulatory uncertainty and litigation risk, according … The Trump administration has billed its plan to undo U.S.

Manufacturing

Insurance Journal

JULY 20, 2025

By Mingson Lau Lawmakers in Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada have recently approved changes aimed at helping their states dip into the lucrative side of corporate litigation that Delaware, with a specialized court and business-friendly laws, has dominated as the world’s …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 30, 2025

Eleven former executives of companies linked to Miteni SpA were sentenced to a combined 141 years in prison by an Italian court for one of the largest groundwater contaminations of forever chemicals in Europe. Parent company Mitsubishi Corp., Japan’s biggest …

Litigation

Insurance Journal

JUNE 22, 2025

In the long conflict between insurance carriers and public claims adjusters, Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. has unexpectedly altered the rules of engagement in a way that could have a big impact on some adjusters’ livelihood. And a public adjuster …

Insurance

Insurance Journal

JULY 10, 2025

The Delaware Supreme Court rejected the legitimacy of expert testimony linking the heartburn drug Zantac to cancer, in a major win for makers of the product. In a unanimous ruling Thursday, the state’s highest court agreed with the argument of …

Expert Testimony

Insurance Journal

JUNE 10, 2025

Some Florida policyholders and their attorneys have long complained about real or perceived delays in the claims-handling process after a loss. A Florida appeals court ruled last week that telling a jury about those delays may be prejudicial and out …

Court Rules

Insurance Journal

JULY 8, 2025

Securities and Exchange Commission and software company SolarWinds Corp. have reached a settlement, ending a federal lawsuit that alleged investor fraud and known cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Early this month the SEC and SolarWinds jointly filed to stay the case, …

Litigation

Practice of Law

JULY 9, 2025

Two people in Mississippi learned the hard way that expecting an insurance company to pay out for an accident involving criminal activity between them offered perhaps the worst odds of all. Automotive liability insurance sounds like exactly what's needed when a driver runs someone over. On June 30, 2025, a U.S.

Court Rules

Insurance Journal

JUNE 25, 2025

Microsoft has been hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claim the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent and several others alleged that Microsoft …

Litigation