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A Michigan appellate judge said insurance companies should have to show policyholders intended to defraud as part of proving auto insurance fraud under a Michigan law, in concurrence with an opinion from a panel majority that reversed a lower court's finding against a man injured in a car crash.
A Nationwide unit asked a California federal judge to find that it has no duty to defend a startup's board director in a lawsuit from the company's founder and CEO, arguing that an exclusion in its directors and officers policy prevents coverage for disputes between insureds.
A building owner's insurer can't avoid coverage of a $6 million settlement with a rape victim who worked at a mental health center in the building, a Massachusetts federal judge said, finding the health center's insurer had an exclusion for abuse or molestation that prevented coverage.
A cannabis staffing agency's insurance policy doesn't cover its client's employees, the insurer told a California federal judge in its bid for a pretrial win in its suit seeking to avoid coverage of a wrongful termination suit.
A $19.7 million COVID-19 coverage suit from a group of senior living communities was trimmed by an Illinois state judge who said decisions from the Land of Lincoln have found that COVID-19 can't cause the type of damage that would trigger coverage.