The United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, applying West Virginia law, has held that an insurer was entitled to rescind an insurance policy based on the insured’s misrepresentations regarding...more
6/30/2025
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Summary Judgment
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, applying Pennsylvania law, affirmed judgment on the pleadings in favor of a group of insurers on the ground that a Changes in Exposure...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, applying California law, has held that without physical injury, emotional distress damages alone are insufficient to establish standing for a direct...more
The United States District Court for the District of Connecticut granted an insurer’s motion for summary judgment on the grounds that neither a subpoena issued as part of multi-district litigation nor a chart listing the...more
The Superior Court of Delaware, applying Delaware law, has dismissed two lawsuits filed by nine insurance companies seeking to recover amounts they paid under cyber liability policies from a software company whose customers...more
In a win for Wiley’s client, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, applying Pennsylvania law, determined that an insured was not entitled to coverage for a judgment against it because both...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, applying Illinois law, has held that an insurer had no duty to defend an insured against a lawsuit alleging violations of the Illinois Biometric...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, applying South Carolina law, has ruled that an insurer had no duty to defend an insured in a defamation action because its policy provided excess coverage, even where...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, applying Pennsylvania law, denied an insurer’s motion for summary judgment on the grounds that a genuine dispute of material fact existed as to...more
The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, applying North Carolina law, ruled that neither a contract exclusion nor a professional services exclusion contained in a D&O policy barred coverage...more
An Illinois Appellate Court has ruled that an insurer had no duty to defend an insured in connection with a lawsuit arising out of criminal sexual misconduct charges even though the lawsuit contained negligence claims. Prof’l...more
Applying federal procedural law, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana has held that an insurer’s allegation “upon information and belief,” that an insured possessed knowledge or information...more
Applying New Jersey law, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey determined that issues of material fact precluded summary judgment as to whether certain companies with common ownership and operations qualified...more
Applying California law, a California state appeals court has held that a policy exclusion barring coverage for “any [c]laim . . . [b]ased upon or arising out of any . . . act or omission . . . which is . . . dishonest,...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, applying Ohio law, has held that a bank’s professional liability policy afforded no coverage for an insured’s settlement of a lawsuit that sought...more
Applying Illinois law, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois has held that an insurance broker was not liable in tort to a claimant for an alleged failure to provide timely and proper notice...more
Applying Ohio law, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that an insured’s incorrect “expression of personal belief or opinion” in a renewal application only rendered the policy voidable, not void ab...more
Applying Georgia law, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a policy’s “innocent insured” provision regarding “giving of notice” applied where an innocent insured would lose coverage due to...more
In a matter of first impression, a Kentucky appellate court held that the notice-prejudice rule does not apply to claims-made-and-reported policies. Darwin Nat’l Assurance Co. v. Kentucky State Univ., 2021 WL 1045716 (Ky....more
Applying Arizona law, the United States District Court for the District of Arizona held that an insurer that breached its duty to defend bears the burden of demonstrating that an allocation of defense costs between covered...more
The United States District Court for the District of Kansas, applying Kansas law, has held that an excess E&O insurer was required to advance defense costs where coverage under a potentially responsive D&O policy had not yet...more