A judge in the Southern District of New York has extended a temporary restraining order barring three new hires of Alliant Insurance Services from soliciting or accepting certain Marsh & McLennan Agency clients, or from using two spreadsheets containing client data that Alliant alleges were taken by the former employees.

Private equity-backed broker consolidator PIB Group and its MGA Acquinex have launched legal proceedings in London’s High Court against rival Howden after the latter recruited its warranty and indemnity insurance team earlier this year.

In the latest of a series of RICO lawsuits, Roosevelt Road Re, Tradesman Program Managers and Ionian Re have sued Liakas Law and dozens of others over an alleged fraud scheme involving construction workers staging construction accidents and collecting workers’ compensation benefits.

The Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I) has moved to transfer a lawsuit brought by former chief communications officer Michael Barry against the industry trade body and its CEO Sean Kevelighan for firing him after he testified that Kevelighan used homophobic slurs and harassed an employee for their sexual orientation.

A group of UK insurers began their legal challenge against an important Covid-19 business interruption test case judgment on Tuesday, urging the Court of Appeal to rethink a lower court ruling that certain non-damage denial of access policy wordings respond to pandemic losses.

The multi-billion-dollar London court action between some of the world’s biggest aircraft lessors and their insurers over jets stranded in Russia resumed in London on Monday, a development welcomed by aviation (re)insurers.

Aon has sued two former employees – Eric Braverman and Douglas Richmond – now senior vice presidents at Lockton, for breaching non-solicitation covenants, along with Lockton for encouraging them to do so.

Fireman's Fund Insurance Company (FFIC) and the former Transamerica Insurance Company (TIG) have been freed from a lawsuit filed by 20 individuals alleging liability for sex abuse at a foster home after a court granted their motion to dismiss.

The Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that retail giant Home Depot is not entitled to $50mn of coverage on liability policies issued by Zurich and Great American for a settlement related to a cyber breach in 2014.

January 13 by Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Allstate has been sued by the state of Texas, which accused the insurer on Monday of illegally tracking drivers through their cell phones without their consent and using the data to justify charging more for car insurance.