PropertyCasualtyFocus

In Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Hughes, the Florida Supreme Court held that Florida Statutes section 627.70152’s presuit notice requirement does not apply to an action for breach of a property insurance policy issued before the statute took ...

In Hurst v. Daymon Bell &  Progressive Select Insurance Co., Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court ruling that a policyholder’s estate could not add a tortfeasor’s liability insurer to a post-judgment attorneys’ fee award ...

In Fogel v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co., the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a summary judgment ruling finding that an insurer violated Colorado’s statutory insurance disclosure law by responding to a policy information request with a letter ...

On September 23, 2025, in Church Mutual Insurance Co. S.I. v. Chabad of New Mexico, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico ruled that a policy’s vacancy provision did not preclude coverage for two fire losses at an insured building because — ...

In Wilson v. Cincinnati Specialty Underwriters Insurance Co., the New Mexico Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s decision granting summary judgment to an insurer after determining that bad faith claims on a shooting plainly excluded under the ...

On May 2, 2025, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in AdHealth Limited v. PorterCare Adventist Health Systems affirming the lower court’s summary judgment ruling that a hospital’s excess liability insurance policies’ definition ...

In Wesco Insurance Co. v. Brad Ingram Construction, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment ruling in favor of Wesco Insurance Co. after a split panel concluded that toxic dust and debris from a wildfire did not fall under the policy’s ...

In Gates v. Homesite Insurance Co., the Washington Court of Appeals held that the plaintiff-insureds’ failure to provide 20 days’ notice of intent to sue its insurer, though required by statute, was a mere “procedural irregularity” insufficient to ...

On June 28, 2023, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion in Southern-Owners Insurance Co. v. Waterhouse Corp. affirming that fungi or bacteria exclusions did not apply because a cooling tower that allegedly contained Legionella bacteria was ...

In Hartford Fire Ins. Co. v. The Western Union Co. et al., No. 22-CV-0557 (JMF) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 22, 2022), a federal judge in New York granted Hartford Fire Insurance Company’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and motion to dismiss Western Union’s ...