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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.
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Mich. Justices Say Old Insurance Policies Violated New Limits

By Danielle Ferguson

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.

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Marsh Says Brokerage Poached Employees, Client

By Ganesh Setty

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.

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Life Insurer Agrees To Settle Inflated Charges Suits For $45M

By Ganesh Setty

A Missouri-based life insurer agreed to pay $45 million to settle a group of proposed and certified class actions accusing it of using certain nonmortality factors, contrary to policy language, to impose higher costs on policyholders, bringing the insurer's total losses for such claims to over $94.5 million.

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SUPREME COURT

Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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POLICY & REGULATION

ACA Changes Will Result In Mass Coverage Loss, Suit Claims

By Gianna Ferrarin

Doctors for America, the Main Street Alliance and a trio of cities urged a Maryland federal court to vacate recently finalized changes to Affordable Care Act regulations, arguing they will cause at least 1.8 million people to lose their healthcare coverage.

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LITIGATION

Kenyan Firm's Boeing Crash Fee-Sharing Suit Is Tossed

By Mike Curley

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.

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Houston Rodeo Says Unique Policy Means COVID Coverage

By Catherine Marfin

The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo is asking an appellate court to reverse a summary judgment win in favor of its insurer, arguing two provisions of its policy mean it's covered for business losses it sustained during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Analysis

High Court Case Tops List of Securities Appeals To Watch

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up at least one shareholder's lawsuit when it reopens its doors in October, and securities attorneys from both the plaintiff and defense bars will be watching that appeal and several others as the year moves forward.

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BANKRUPTCY

Insurers Blast Avon Ch. 11 Talc Injury Trust

By Rick Archer

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.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Insurance Policies Are Adapting To AI Risk

While many risks related to artificial intelligence may still fit under existing commercial insurance policies, the rise of broad AI exclusions, the definitional uncertainties surrounding what qualifies as AI and the emergence of affirmative AI coverage signal a shift toward a more fragmented and complex coverage environment, say attorneys at Hunton.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Sector Jobs Continue To Climb, Nearing All-Time High

By Aebra Coe

The U.S. legal industry added 2,800 jobs in June, marking four months in a row of job growth in the sector, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

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.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Target's board faces a shareholder derivative suit that accuses the retail giant of damaging the company by implementing an LGBTQ+ Pride-themed marketing campaign, despite knowing the risk of "public backlash." Meanwhile, SolarWinds and the SEC are close to resolving a novel case that alleges the software developer hid faulty cybersecurity practices before a major breach. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

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.

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Analysis

What Judges Might Ponder In Judicial Safety Law Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

A Third Circuit panel set to examine the constitutionality of a judicial safety law born out of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge's son is tasked with what experts are viewing as a lesser-of-two-evils choice: chilling free speech or chilling public service.

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Ex-Treasury Official Joins Covington's Nat'l Security Practice

By Madeline Lyskawa

Covington & Burling LLP has boosted its national security practice with the hire of the former head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence under former President Barack Obama's administration as of counsel.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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Spectrum, Border, Injunction Changes Included In Mega Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which includes a range of policy provisions on nationwide injunctions, spectrum and immigration and now goes to President Donald Trump's desk ahead of the decided Fourth of July deadline.

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Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA

By James Mills

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

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Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

By Jeff Overley

It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

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Baker Botts

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Beck Redden

Behm & Behm

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Buchanan Ingersoll

Bucher Law PLLC

Bunsow De Mory

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Constangy Brooks

Covington & Burling

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Duane Morris

Epstein Becker

Farnan LLP

FisherBroyles

Gibbons PC

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Gupta Wessler

Haun Mena

Hausfeld LLP

Heard Merman

Hewson & Van Hellemont

Hinshaw & Culbertson

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Hunton Andrews

Ifrah Law

Jenner & Block

Johnson & Bell

Jones Day

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Klein Thomas

Korein Tillery

Labaton Keller

Laborde Siegel

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Lomurro Munson

Lowenstein Sandler

Manatt Phelps

McDermott Will & Emery

McElroy Deutsch

McManis Faulkner

Mike Morse Law Firm

Milbank LLP

Miller Canfield

Morgan & Morgan

Morrison Foerster

Nixon Peabody

Orrick Herrington

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Plunkett Cooney

Prime Legal LLC

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Raj Ferber

Richards Layton

Riker Danzig

Seyfarth Shaw

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Sheppard Mullin

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Stoel Rives

Sullivan & Cromwell

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Troutman

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AXA XL Ltd.

Alliant Insurance Services Inc.

American Bankers Association

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Avon Products Inc.

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Beazley PLC

CTIA

Chubb Ltd.

Comcast Corp.

Competitive Carriers Association

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Drummond

Equifax Inc.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

FirstEnergy Corp.

Google LLC

Hallmark Financial Services Inc.

Harvard University

Human Rights First

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Kansas City Life Insurance Company

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Medtronic PLC

Munich Re Group

NVIDIA Corp.

Natura Cosmeticos SA

Oracle Corp.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PacifiCorp

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Philadelphia Consolidated Holding Corp.

Planned Parenthood Federation

Pro Bono Institute

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

RELX PLC

Slack Technologies Inc.

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

SolarWinds Corp.

Stanford University

Supervalu Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association

Thomson Reuters Corp.

TikTok Inc.

United States Telecom Association

University of California Davis

University of the Pacific

Valve Corp.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California State Treasurer's Office

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Reserve System

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

Michigan Supreme Court

New Jersey Legislature

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

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U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court