Most Popular Liability Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Liability Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Dangerous-Dog Owners in Florida Must Now Get $100,000 in Liability Insurance
May 23 2025 // Owners of dangerous dogs in Florida will soon have to secure at least $100,000 in liability insurance coverage after the governor signed House Bill 593 into law this week. Also known as the Pam Rock Act after a mail...
#2 New Auto Liability Minimums Take Effect This Year in North Carolina
Jan 15 2025 // This year, the minimum automobile liability coverage requirements in North Carolina will jump to 50/100/50, among the highest minimums in the country. The change is the result of Senate Bill 452, approved in 2023 and which...
#3 New York High Court Unleashes Expanded Liability for Pet Owners
Apr 28 2025 // Dog and other pet owners and insurers in New York are now exposed to increased risk of liability in the wake of a Court of Appeals ruling that allows an injured party to bring an ordinary negligence claim against a...
#4 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...
#5 AM Best: Commercial Auto Liability Drags Down Segment and it Could Get Worse
Sep 22 2025 // Commercial auto has been a dark cloud hanging over the U.S. property/casualty industry for more than a dozen years—and things are getting worse. For the 14th consecutive year, commercial auto has posted an underwriting...
#6 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...
#7 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...
#8 Allianz Offers 5 Loss Trends to Watch on the Liability Front
Nov 21 2024 // As the costs of nuclear and thermonuclear verdicts explode in the U.S., organizations are examining ways to predict, prevent and avoid the liabilities that light the fuse on multi-million-dollar court cases. Areas critical...
#9 Insurance Groups Pushing Hard for Georgia Tort Reform as State Liability Costs Soar
Feb 6 2025 // Georgia’s governor has asked state lawmakers for $175 million to cover the growing costs of liability claims against state agencies and employees, as the state’s liability insurance fund has dwindled to a...
#10 Healthcare Liability Trends to Watch Under Trump’s Administration
May 5 2025 // The 2025 presidential administration is likely to lead to changes for the healthcare liability landscape. Potential deregulation initiatives could ease administrative burdens on providers and improve efficiency; however,...
#11 College Team Physicians Wary of Greater Liability Risk With Athletes Making Money
Jun 25 2025 // The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of being sued by athletes who claim a poor outcome from treatment caused them to lose future...
#12 South Carolina Lawmakers Reach Agreement on Liquor Liability Relief Bill
May 7 2025 // With just two days left in South Carolina’s 2025 legislative session, House and Senate negotiators appear to have reached a compromise on a plan to ease liquor liability costs for struggling bars and...
#13 Excessive Litigation Causes Surge in Liability Insurance Costs: Marsh McLennan CEO
Jul 18 2025 // Excessive litigation and abuse of the U.S. legal system are effectively imposing a tax on the U.S. economy and causing a surge in liability insurance costs, according to John Doyle, president and chief executive officer of...
#14 Gunmaker Sig Sauer Asks For and Gets Liability Protection in New Hampshire
Jun 23 2025 // Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based Sig Sauer asked for — and got — protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the gunmaker to court. Supporters in the...
#15 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...
#16 Rethinking Assault & Battery Liability in Commercial Real Estate
Aug 4 2025 // In urban centers across the U.S., property owners and managers are welcoming a return to pre-2020 levels of foot traffic in retail corridors, mixed-use developments, and multifamily buildings. While this rebound signals a...
#17 Markel Reorgs Professional Liability Products
Feb 5 2025 // Special insurer Markel said it is realigning its U.S. professional liability products into four pillars: management liability, errors & omissions (E&O), cyber, and financial institutions. “After careful...
#18 Colorado Jury Says Liability Waiver Doesn’t Shield Vail From $21M Ski Lift Fall Verdict
Sep 9 2025 // A $21 million jury verdict against Vail Resorts for a paralyzing ski lift fall shows that liability waivers — those documents often written in legalese that people must sign before taking part in an activity—...
#19 SC Bill Moves to House, Would Lower Liquor Liability Coverage, End Joint-and-Several
Apr 1 2025 // The fate of a bill that would modify South Carolina’s joint-and-several liability law now rests with the state House of Representatives after the state Senate last week approved the measure following weeks of heated...
#20 Ohio Bill Seeks to Prohibit Mandating Firearm Liability Insurance
Dec 13 2024 // A bill making its way through the Ohio General Assembly would prohibit requiring firearm liability insurance. Senate Bill 58 passed the House by a 61-27 vote and now heads to the Ohio Senate, where legislators in the...
