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The Fourth Circuit affirmed a win Tuesday for a Hartford unit seeking to avoid coverage of a lawsuit brought against a Maryland contracting company by its former CFO, finding that the underlying suit doesn't involve a workplace tort covered by the company's employment practices liability policy.

New York's highest court agreed to take on a COVID-19 coverage appeal from a restaurant operator arguing that a lower court established a so-called tangible-alteration test that has no support from any top court decision.

Editor Tom Martin says farewell to The Register-Mail, its readers and all the newsroom staff who worked to put out the newspaper.

Factory Mutual Insurance Co. urged a Virginia federal judge not to reconsider her dismissal of Mars Inc.'s COVID-19 coverage suit, arguing Wednesday that nothing has changed since her October decision against the candy maker.

A Pennsylvania state judge sided with Chubb units in their suit against Pardee Resources Co., finding the insurers have no duty to defend the company against a federal lawsuit accusing it of releasing hazardous substances from five piles of coal mining waste.

A manufacturer of luxury shuttle buses can't revive its COVID-19 coverage lawsuit against Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America, a California appellate panel decided after finding that Grech Motors Inc. didn't allege either physical loss or physical damage.

The owner of a Las Vegas mall asked the Nevada Supreme Court to deny its insurer's bid to reverse a lower court's ruling allowing the mall's COVID-19 coverage suit to move forward, citing a first-of-its-kind ruling from the Vermont Supreme Court allowing a separate virus coverage suit to continue.

The Vermont Supreme Court on Friday revived Huntington Ingalls' lawsuit seeking coverage for losses it suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, a first for a state high court, saying the shipbuilder has sufficient allegations to proceed past the motion-to-dismiss stage.

The Vermont Supreme Court on Friday revived Huntington Ingalls' lawsuit seeking coverage for losses it suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, a first for a state high court, saying the shipbuilder has sufficient allegations to proceed past the motion-to-dismiss stage.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court found Tuesday in a split decision that the Cherokee Nation's losses from closing its properties due to the threat of COVID-19 aren't eligible for insurance coverage, reversing a lower court's decision in the tribal nation's favor.