Best Read Liability Headlines
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#1 The Battle Over J&J’s Bankruptcy Plan to End Talc Lawsuits
Jul 8 2024 // Eron Evans died in 2016 at 41 of ovarian cancer, leaving behind two daughters. Her grieving mother, Darlene, blames Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder – and she’s pursuing a lawsuit her daughter started a...
#2 Is Trampoline Job Landscape Work? AI Says Yes. 11th Circuit Says It’s Not Covered
May 30 2024 // Is the installation of an in-ground trampoline considered landscaping work, covered by a landscaper’s liability insurance policy? Artificial intelligence programs suggest that it is. But human judges with the 11th...
#3 Liability Reinsurance Crisis Could Be Looming, TransRe CEO Says
Jun 7 2024 // “There could be a liability crisis in reinsurance in a couple of years,” a reinsurance executive predicted this week. Ken Brandt, chair, president and chief executive officer of TransRe, offered the assessment...
#4 Commercial Lines Not at Top of Cycle; ‘Thieves’ Fuel Social Inflation: CEOs
Jul 9 2024 // It’s not waning market discipline but the scourge of social inflation that industry leaders of commercial lines insurance businesses see as a potential threat to future profits, a trio of property/casualty chief...
#5 Uber Avoids Liability for Driver’s Assault on Passenger
Feb 6 2025 // Uber Technologies “is not an insurer” and so when one of its drivers assaults a rider, the ride-hailing company is “not automatically liable,” a federal judge in Philadelphia wrote in dismissing...
#6 To Insure or Self-Insure? The Question Homeowners Must Answer
Jul 8 2024 // No matter where you live, there’s a good chance the weather’s getting wilder. In just the past few weeks, tornadoes have wreaked havoc on Midwest and Southern states, and large swaths of southern Florida were...
#7 Insurance Keeping Up With Construction Demand: Construction Activity ‘Phenomenal’ Despite Labor Shortage
Jun 17 2024 // While the labor market continues to come up short for the construction industry, the insurance market is doing its job supplying the coverages the industry needs to keep up with the significant demand for new...
#8 Ship Owner in Baltimore Bridge Collapse Blames Maryland, Others in Liability Case
Oct 31 2024 // As a sprawling liability case takes shape following the deadly collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, the owner and manager of the container ship Dali are seeking to deflect responsibility and...
#9 Commercial Auto Insurance Profit Struggles Continue
Jul 15 2024 // The commercial auto insurance segment maintained its place as a weaker-performing U.S. property/casualty insurance product line in 2023. Despite successive periods of pricing and underwriting actions, commercial auto has...
#10 Construction Defects Are Not Covered Property Damage in Commercial Liability Policy
Aug 16 2024 // A home builder is not covered under the property damage coverage in its commercial liability policy for construction defects for which it was responsible. A three-judge panel of the Massachusetts Appeals Court has held for...
#11 When Harassment Follows You Home: Managing Employment Practices Liability Risk in a Remote Work Era
May 19 2025 // The boundaries between work and home have never been blurrier. The shift to remote and hybrid environments brought flexibility, but for insurers and employers alike, it also introduced a new exposure: harassment claims in...
#12 Failure to Produce Proof of Purchase Dooms Insurer’s Product Liability Case
Dec 6 2024 // A federal court in Pennsylvania recently affirmed that plaintiffs seeking to hold a seller or distributor liable for a faulty product must provide clear evidence of where they purchased their product. In a homeowners...
#13 Court: 911 Not Part of Emergency Services, Barring Dispatcher Liability Coverage
Apr 10 2025 // A 911 dispatch center is not necessarily part of a county’s emergency services department and is not covered by a secondary liability insurance policy, a federal appeals court found this week in a decision that will...
#14 Youth Sports Liability Market in ‘Armageddon Mode’
Aug 5 2024 // Beset with massive rate increases, dramatic rejections of coverage, and severely dwindling market capacity, the current youth sports liability market is historically challenging, according to insurance professionals with...
#15 Can Insurers Sue School Boards for PIP Claim Reimbursement? Florida Courts Differ
Jul 9 2024 // In 1997, Florida lawmakers tweaked the state’s personal injury protection or “no-fault” auto insurance law. The idea was to allow school kids injured in a school bus accident to have some of their medical...
#16 RiverStone Acquires Electric Insurance; Plymouth Rock Gets Renewal Rights
Jun 3 2024 // RiverStone International reports it has closed on its acquisition of Electric Insurance Co. and its two subsidiaries, Elm Insurance Co. and Electric Insurance Agency. Electric Insurance is a Beverly,...
#17 SC House Approves Liquor Liability Bill But Broader Tort Reform May Be Dead
Mar 7 2025 // The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 109-0 Thursday in favor of a bill that would end joint-and-several liability for bars and restaurants and would incentivize additional alcohol-server training, an effort to...
#18 US Appeals Court Takes Aim at Big Tech Liability Shield
Aug 29 2024 // A US appeals court has struck down a long-standing argument from social media platforms: that a federal law grants them blanket immunity from being held accountable for user harms – even the wrongful death of...
#19 Vermont Takes Over Medical Liability Insurer CARE RRG Facing $35.4M Judgment
Apr 28 2025 // A Vermont Superior Court has approved a state takeover and rehabilitation plan for a medical professional liability insurer for 1,300 physicians that the state says is in hazardous financial condition as a result of a...
#20 Social Media Giants Avoid School Districts’ Addiction Claims
Jun 10 2024 // Meta Platforms Inc. and other social media companies won the dismissal of novel claims in hundreds of lawsuits brought by school districts seeking to recover costs for addressing the negative impacts of students’...
