Property Casualty Focus

On September 11, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals entered a per curiam, unpublished opinion in Travelers Property Casualty Co. of America v. Ericsson Inc., affirming summary judgment for the insurers and holding that the insurers had no duty to defend two ...

In Greenaker v. Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Co., Florida’s Second District Court of Appeal clarified the difference between actual cash value (ACV) and replacement cost value (RCV) valuations and reversed a final judgment entered in favor of the ...

In Brown v. Flowers, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a denial of coverage for a judgment rendered against a corrections officer for sexual abuse, finding that the officer was not acting within the scope of duties to come within coverage and that a sexual ...

In L. Squared Industries Inc. v. Nautilus Insurance Co., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals clarified notice requirements under a claims-made policy, holding that an insured’s failure to provide timely notice barred coverage when the insured could not ...

In Wolf v. Riverport Insurance Co., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of an insured’s bad faith settlement delay claim against her insurer after she attempted to recover under section 155 of the Illinois Insurance Code without a ...

“Ensuing loss” provisions have long been the subject of nuanced arguments in insurance litigation. The provisions, which sometimes afford coverage for a “covered loss” stemming from an expressly excluded peril, serve as fodder for policyholders to ...

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that an insurer’s homeowners policy all-terrain vehicle exclusion barred coverage for a Utah insured’s injuries that did not occur at the “insured location.”

The case, Farm Bureau Property & Casualty ...

In Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Co. v. TFS NY Inc., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, interpreting the plain and unambiguous terms of a commercial general liability policy issued by Clear Blue Specialty Insurance Co. to TFS NY Inc ...

On June 15, 2023, in Citizens Insurance Company of America v. Wynndalco Enterprises LLC, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois’ decision holding that a Citizens’ business liability ...

In Frankenmuth Mutual Insurance Co. v. Brown’s Clearing Inc., the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an Alabama district court’s ruling that the insured was not required to give notice of an underlying lawsuit until the insured had actual knowledge ...

On November 8, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida that Mount Vernon Fire Insurance Co. did not have a duty to defend Global Travel International Inc. in an arbitration between Global ...

In Larson v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that, under Hawaii law, unambiguous broad settlement release language and the two-year tort statute of limitations barred claims that Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co ...

On March 29, 2022, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a tort claimant lacks standing to challenge a court's judgment finding that the carrier had no duty to defend the insured.

A.B. was 10 years old when she was sexually abused by her parent and her ...