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A convenience-store operator is facing a $1 million lawsuit for allegedly selling gasoline to a man who torched a Des Moines building.

An insurance company is suing convenience store chain QuikTrip Corp. for negligence, accusing employees at an Iowa store of selling gasoline to a man who allegedly threatened to use it to start a fire and then did so at an apartment complex across the street.

We are still in the relatively early stages of jurisprudence addressing the insurability of loss stemming from data breaches. Compared to the more developed body of case...

In The Inns by the Sea v. California Mut. Ins. Co., 71 Cal. App.5th 688 (November 15, 2021), the California Fourth District Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's dismissal of a lawsuit...

Along with seeking to analogize COVID-19 physical loss or damage to that in the fumes or contaminants context, policyholders are now also attempting to rely on cases discussing the...

Chemers EAST ST. LOUIS — An insurance provider claims it has no duty to defend in a wrongful death suit involving a worker who was electrocuted at its policy holders job site.  State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance Company filed a complaint April 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois against Rodney Jackson, Shores Builders Inc., and Rodney Smith, as special administrator of the Estate of Matthew Smith, deceased, alleging no duty to def...

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