A property management firm’s excess insurers are not obligated to defend it in multi-district price-fixing litigation involving use of the real estate software RealPage. A federal district judge in Massachusetts found that the terms of Windsor Property Management Co.’s primary …
New York has issued guidance to commercial insurers that they are prohibited from inquiring about or making coverage decisions based on a property’s status as an affordable housing development or a tenant’s source of income. The guidance from the New …
A federal judge in New Jersey, in a blistering opinion, has refused to disqualify himself from a case involving his insurer, Liberty Mutual, and accused the insurer of seeking his recusal and attacking his integrity because it did not like …
Seventy-six days after it was blocked by the collapse of the Key Bridge, the major shipping channel through the Port of Baltimore has been cleared of debris and restored to allow commercial maritime transit. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers …
Uber can require that a passenger seriously injured in a crash involving an Uber driver go to arbitration over his $63 million damages claim without a trial, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled, overturning a lower court. The Massachusetts …
Three Massachusetts drivers have hit a dead end for the second time in their drive for court certification of a class action against auto insurers over missing payments for the lost resale value of vehicles. Superior Court Justice Kenneth Salinger …
Liberty Mutual Insurance is pushing for a New Jersey federal judge to recuse himself from a construction insurance case because he did not disclose that he has been a long-time Liberty insured, a significant claimant, and investigated by the insurer …
A Virginia hospital is not vicariously liable for a sexual molestation committed by one of its nurses against a patient because the nurse’s actions were clearly outside the scope of his employment duties and were personally motivated. A patient sued …
For the first time, a Colorado appellate court has concluded that COVID-19 can be an occupational disease that is compensable under the state’s Workers’ Compensation Act. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruling came in a case in which Life Care …
A veteran Pennsylvania workers’ compensation attorney will soon have a chance to argue before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that his own use of cannabinoid oil (CBD oil) is covered by workers’ compensation. It’s an argument he won last November with …