Golden Gate Insurer PHL Veers to Liquidation as Rehab Hopes Fade
State regulators are abandoning a plan to rehabilitate
State regulators are abandoning a plan to rehabilitate
W. R. Berkley Corporation announced new leadership appointments, with Lee Iannarone named executive vice president and Stephen Kennedy named senior vice president and general counsel, the insurance company said Monday.
A California federal judge declined to grant an early ruling to an insurer in a dispute over whether 2020 wildfires caused insured damage to wooden barrels and spirits at a distillery.
A Tokio Marine Holdings Inc. unit is dropping its insurance coverage suit against a Washington state landlord over algorithmic price-fixing litigation.
President
There was perhaps no bigger story last year in the world of Big Law than President Donald Trump’s attacks on several of the nation’s largest law firms through punitive executive orders due to political affiliations and adversarial hires.
For decades there was no way to recycle empty toothpaste tubes. Every minute about 38,000 of them ended up as trash, dumped in landfills or incinerators around the world.
Drugmakers
A pollution exclusion barred insurance coverage for litigation over emissions of a chemical used to sterilize medical devices, a federal appeals court said.
Litigation finance moved further mainstream in 2025, with firms tapping the funding source for areas including mass torts and intellectual property.

A growing number of businesses are suing their insurers over denied business interruption insurance claims due to the Covid-19 pandemic. But will they be successful?
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