Meta, Insurers Clash Over Forum for Social Media Addiction Case

Meta Platforms Inc. and its insurers, including units of Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. and Chubb Ltd., are digging in their heels in a fight over where to litigate a high-stakes coverage dispute sparked by suits claiming the tech giant got kids hooked on social media.

The parties’ respective approaches, laid out in briefs they filed in recent weeks, are a departure from the usual playbook on forum-jockeying, insurance attorneys and scholars say.

Meta wants its fight with insurers pulled into the underlying multidistrict litigation, which encompasses hundreds of suits against the Facebook and Instagram owner ...