Lawsuits

The litigation comes amid heated debate over a Department of Labor rule meant to prevent excessive fees on sales of insurance products.

A half-dozen Maui wildfire victims sued a group of insurers, including State Farm and Allstate, accusing them of throwing a wrench into a tentative $4 billion deal to settle their claims.

There was an increase in cases involving business liability, business interruptions and non-hurricane homeowners policies, according to LexisNexis company, Lex Machina

Insurance associations sue U.S. DOL and other legal news.

A decision backing the surviving shareholder in a family business could have carried major tax implications to succession plans. Instead, SCOTUS backed the IRS.

Globe Life; AAA; and more law and legal news out of Maryland and Florida.

Telematics data class action; NHTSA grants for state crash data collection and more legal news.

Insurance carriers need more tools to combat social inflation and data sharing to create insights about the early litigation warning signals could help.

The unit will pay $48 million to consumers and $12 million to a victims' relief fund.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway faces accusations it violated the terms of a more than $10 billion acquisition of truck-stop-chain Pilot Travel Centers by changing the accounting methods used to value part of the deal, according to an unsealed lawsuit.

Software can pull attributes out of a claim file to provide claims professionals with a risk assessment score for the likelihood that the claim file could go nuclear.

As part of our 2023 Malpractice Liability Insurance Buyer's Guide, experts weigh in on the risks accountants are facing

Wells Fargo will pay $300 million to settle a lawsuit claiming it improperly charged customers for unneeded auto-collision protection insurance — and hid the practice from investors.

The report from Australian mining tycoon Andrew Forrest's nonprofit Minderoo Foundation is the first time lawyers and data analysts have modeled how the cost of plastic-related pollution translates into the likely compensation payouts.

After reviewing the claims data from 2019 to 2021, Embroker uncovered some interesting trends and shifts that can help insurers predict the types of claims that businesses will most likely continue to see in 2022.

The most common reason why business executives didn’t purchase executive risk coverages, like D&O, EPL and Fiduciary Liability, was that they didn’t believe the company was big enough to need it, according to a recent study from Coalition, a commercial insurtech.

Using the right advanced technologies, litigation analytics can give you insights into legal cases and trends that were previously unknowable to provide better legal advice, develop better litigation strategies and win more cases.

Federal Insurance Co. sold Paramount an insurance package that was supposed to cover more than $100 million in losses if cast members aren’t able to take part in the production, resulting in delays or interruptions, according to the complaint filed in Los Angeles federal court Monday.

Victims’ lawyers, concerned that Century may claim it can’t pay abuse victims, argue that a related Chubb subsidiary, Insurance Company of North America, known as INA, is also on the hook because it insured the Boy Scouts until about 1996. Chubb argues that INA turned over those policies to Century during a restructuring that year.

Five years after hackers accessed the personal information of 10.6 million individuals, parties to a consolidated class action lawsuit have reached one of the largest healthcare data breach settlements.