/insurance-authority/general-liability?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Insurance Authority General Liability Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:46:11 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360791?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360791 Hiscox Insurance Co. failed to meet its obligation to contribute to a Hawaii-based restaurant property manager's defense against a slip-and-fall suit, the manager's insurer told a Hawaii federal court. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:27:22 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358477?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358477 The Michigan Supreme Court so far this year has handed down a number of decisions marking important changes to criminal law, including reshaping how late adolescents are sentenced for serious crimes and declaring that the smell of marijuana alone cannot justify a warrantless vehicle search. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:21:30 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358273?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358273 As Tesla's deployment of robotaxis on public roads in Austin, Texas, faces regulatory scrutiny and legislative pushback, the legal community confronts an unprecedented challenge: how to apply traditional fault principles, product liability laws and insurance practices to vehicles that operate as rolling computers, says Don Fountain at Clark Fountain. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:16:29 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360386?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360386 The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:09:59 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360220?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360220 The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:45:32 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360152?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360152 A California regulatory investigation into State Farm's California subsidiary is spotlighting common issues in the insurance recovery process following major disasters, but experts also say that the insurer's high level of exposure opened it up to more consumer scrutiny. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:17:46 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360545?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360545 A group of insurance carriers is asking a Delaware bankruptcy judge to reject cosmetic seller Avon Products' Chapter 11 plan, saying it would unfairly force them to pay possibly bogus talc injury claims. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:09:59 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360146?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360146 A major ruling last week that fire insurance offered by California's insurer of last resort doesn't meet minimum standards under state law should redefine the conversation around what constitutes insurable fire risk, according to one of the plaintiff's lawyers. Here, Law360 talks to policyholder attorney Dylan Schaffer of Kerley Schaffer LLP about the decision and case he regards as the most meaningful in his career. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:29:12 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360144?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360144 Dividend policies from auto insurers can offer carriers more premiums up front, strengthening their bottom line, while encouraging drivers to be more risk-averse once they have a vested interest in receiving significant dividends, carrier-side attorney Michael Savett of Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP told Law360. Here, Savett discusses the particulars of such policies. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:30:01 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360385?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360385 Insurance brokerage Marsh told a New York federal court that a competing brokerage orchestrated a scheme with former Marsh employees to steal clients in its surety business, noting that the competitor has faced over 70 other similar lawsuits. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:11:45 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360387?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360387 In a closely divided order Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court held that insurance policies straddling the dates for which 2019 no-fault reforms went into effect are subjected to post-reform increased limits for liability, reversing a lower appellate opinion in favor of insurers. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 14:21:54 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360381?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360381 A New York bankruptcy judge Wednesday pushed back a hearing on the Chapter 11 plan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse two months until she can hear arguments on insurance settlements that are central to the plan. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:27:02 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360170?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2360170 An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a suit by a Kenyan firm alleging that an Illinois firm wrongly pushed it out of a fee-sharing agreement stemming from a settlement with Boeing over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, finding some of the claims fall under Illinois' litigation privilege, while the rest are unsupported by the complaint. Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:36:25 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2359822?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2359822 Three Hartford units have no duty to cover a brake and clutch manufacturer for an asbestos injury settlement, a New Jersey federal court ruled, finding the company's late notice of the claim doomed its chances at coverage. Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:59:54 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2357085?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2357085 Insurers should take note of several critical components of Georgia's tort litigation overhaul — including limitations on damages anchoring, procedural rules governing dismissals, and liability standards in negligent security cases — and adapt claims-handling strategies to reduce litigation risk, says Lucy Aquino at Cozen O'Connor. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:46:25 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358784?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358784 An event company's general liability insurer told a Washington federal court that it should owe no coverage to the company and others, including Live Nation, in two underlying lawsuits seeking damages for a fatal shooting at an electronic dance music festival. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:04:31 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358205?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358205 A property insurer for a golf course owner told a North Carolina federal court it should toss the owner's claims that the insurer failed to pay an additional $3.1 million in coverage for Hurricane Helene-related damage in bad faith, saying it failed to back up such claims with specific factual allegations. Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:08:32 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2357679?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2357679 The Idaho Supreme Court has dismissed a widow's suit against Sun Valley Co. alleging the company was negligent and liable for the death of her husband from hitting a snow machine while skiing, finding that the machine was clearly marked in keeping with state law, and the skier had assumed the risks of the sport. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 21:31:20 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358130?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358130 Fire insurance offered by California's insurer of last resort does not meet the minimum coverage standards laid out in the state insurance code, a California state court ruled, finding the policy's definition of "direct physical loss" and its smoke damage provision to be unlawfully restrictive. Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:56:53 +0000 /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /insurance-authority/general-liability/articles/2358008 State Farm will likely face class certification in a California federal homeowners insurance case, the Ninth Circuit sought input from New York's top court over automakers' duties, and a New York federal court sided with a policyholder in coverage litigation over corporate sale and merger transactions. Here, Law360 takes a look at the past week's top insurance news.